Anger Management
Do you have a short fuse or find yourself getting into frequent arguments and fights? Anger is a normal, healthy emotion, but when chronic, explosive anger spirals out of control, it can have serious consequences for your relationships, your health, and your state of mind. With insight about the real reasons for your anger and these anger management tools, you can learn to keep your temper from hijacking your life.
Understanding anger
The emotion of anger is neither good nor bad. It’s perfectly healthy and normal to feel angry when you’ve been mistreated or wronged. The feeling isn’t the problem—it’s what you do with it that makes a difference. Anger becomes a problem when it harms you or others.
If you have a hot temper, you may feel like it’s out of your hands and there’s little you can do to tame the beast. But you have more control over your anger than you think. You can learn to express your emotions without hurting others—and when you do, you’ll not only feel better, you’ll also be more likely to get your needs met. Mastering the art of anger management takes work, but the more you practice, the easier it will get. And the payoff can be huge. Learning to control your anger and express it appropriately can help you build better relationships, achieve your goals, and lead a healthier, more satisfying life.
The Aims of Anger Management Counselling
- To help you recognise what makes you angry (triggers or catalysts for anger) and to get you to ask yourself questions about your anger such as “What type of people or situations make me angry?”, “What do I do when I am angry?”, and “How does my anger affect others around me?”
- To teach you how to best respond to these triggers without being aggressive.
- To enable you to learn specific skills to help you manage triggers for anger effectively.
- Help you identify times when your thoughts do not lead to logical or rational conclusions. Your counsellor will work with you to change how you think and react to certain situations.
- To teach you how to relax, how to stay calm and be peaceful when you feel a surge of anger.
- To help you learn how to be assertive. By being able to express yourself assertively you will feel more in control of situations. Assertiveness should never be confused with aggression.