Anger Management and Counseling in Kemp, TX.

Anger is a normal part of our emotional make-up. Expressing our anger is important to our mental health. However, it is important that we learn how to do this in a positive way, that is not detrimental to our relationships and our lives. There are many techniques that can be learned in order to accomplish this. Let me help you to learn life skills that can help you to better control your emotions.

The most common root of anger I see is depression. Depression makes everything harder, less hopeful, and anger is the reaction. It often feels like irritation but it looks like anger to others. Less often, it may be a way to express frustration, fear, or anxiety when a person can't quite zero in on what they feel or they lack the words to share. Let's not manage anger but unplug what's causing it.

Being angry is not bad, it is what we do with it that can be destructive to ourselves and our relationships. I can help you identify unhealthy anger patterns and triggers. Sessions will consist of learning how your anger was learned and re-learning healthier ways of handling it. Understanding your anger will help prevent future relationship conflict and build more confidence for you as a person.

Elizabeth offers anger management and conflict resolution services. Her work is based on civility and non-violent communication skills in combination with work on healthy boundaries, healthy assertiveness, and interpersonal expectations. Anger is a physical emotion requiring both physical and emotional deescalation strategies. Elizabeth provides training and behavioral exercises to increase mastery of internal regulation.

As a culture, we do not do well with healthy expressions of anger. Often we are raised to suppress it and then we have limited practice at dealing with big emotion. There is a spectrum of healthy aggression- to keep us safe and to maintain boundaries- and rage- our body's strategy for safety. Anger management is about applying the right "dosing" to maintain boundaries yet not fracture relationships or suffer other losses. I am able to help you learn to regulate your body to be able to apply the appropriate "dose" to be effective and not destructive.

As a Certified Anger Resolution Therapist, I understand that you may have already tried to control your frustration or someone else may be telling you that your anger is a problem. Either way, I recognize that you have been doing the best you can but you need some help to achieve consistent management of your anger. During counseling, I will teach you methods individualized for your specific needs to help you recognize triggers and control your responses.

Don't let your anger get the best of you. If you find that your anger is harming your relationships or counterproductive to how you want to live, let's do the deep dive and unravel those negative messages and reactions. Through talk therapy and a holistic approach, we can uncover and release the negativity and anger so that you can respond with a cool head. Gain control of your life and let's say goodbye to those destructive patterns once and for all.

Grey Matters International and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D approaches issues of anger management in a very humane yet fresh perspective. You see, anger is a normal emotion but it is the valence (intensity) as well as the coupling choice of what one does with this that is the problem. Telling someone to "not" do it or modifying behavior with a trite psychological plan that only breeds a compliant response is not the way to change anger. Brainwave optimization is a new cutting edge technology that allows one to rewire circuitry responsible for reactivity driving the anger. Contact Grey Matters International, Inc now at kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.