Anger is a normal feeling that all people experience. The trouble is often when anger leads to aggression or destructive BEHAVIOR. Often anger issues have dramatic costs including in relationships, at work/school, legal issues, and others. Often anger covers underlying emotions that drive anger including sadness, frustration, feeling disrespected, and shame/guilt to name a few. I help my clients understand their anger issues and learn new adaptive ways to cope with this emotion.

I create a safe, warm, caring atmosphere so that you can share your painful, feelings of anger, resentment, and bitterness. These feelings, no doubt are negatively impacting you emotionally and causing you major conflicts with your spouse, partner, children, parents, bosses, colleagues or even friends. In addition you probably notice they can cause for you health problems such as high blood pressure, back pain, headaches, stomach and chest pains and possibly even contribute to the development of cancerous tissues. I can help you identify and resolve the underlying hurt, pain, grievances and attack thoughts and learn to let go, release and forgive yourself and others. I offer you a wide va

Anger management counseling can help to identify stressors and learn the steps to stay calm in the face of anger. The goal is to handle tense situations in more constructive and positive ways by reducing the emotional and physical arousal that anger can cause. It will provide the tools to take back your life and resolve the triggers that result in unplanned anger reactions.

Appropriately expressed anger is a useful human emotion. Unfortunately, if you are struggling with excessive internal rage & accumulated anger, you can be easily triggered & find yourself out of control. This experience is obviously destructive to others, but you are suffering deeply as well. After lashing out toward loved ones, you are left with feelings of self-loathing & frustration at your inability to control your own emotions. These negative feelings can contribute to more accumulated anger - so the cycle continues. No one wants to live this way. You can choose to bravely explore this vicious cycle of anger. Heal yourself - heal your relationships - heal your life. You can do this!

Therapy can be helpful in learning tools for effectively managing feelings of anger and frustration. Therapy can provide you with a toolbox of coping skills. I will work with you to build and help you implement adaptive mechanisms for coping with feelings of anger and frustration. I will help you to reduce angry behaviors and responses and to improve your relationships.