Anger Management

Increasingly clients come for help with anger difficulties. They find it hard to moderate their responses and their outbursts cause problems at work and within relationships. While I use traditional CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) strategies to help people cope with these overwhelming feelings, I think it is very important to first examine closely the context of each individual, in order to find out how this way of responding was learned.

Relationship-oriented therapy offers a trustworthy, stable, reliable environment in which to come closer to the feelings underlying these maladaptive responses. Once awareness can grow within a safe context, clients can find better ways for dealing with their own feelings and thought processes and consequently develop better strategies for contact with others.