Anger Management and Counseling in Rotonda, FL.

Our body and brain are connected in such a way that sometimes we react to a situation before we even realize what is happening. Being able to control your actions is such an important part of living. It affects our relationships, our work, our home life, even our self-care time. If you have been struggling with handling anger appropriately, I will help you understand the mind-body connection and what you can do to stop and think before automatically responding to a situation.

In my experience as an EMDR therapist, I pay close attention to the links between past and present. I’ve seen time and time again how unhealed emotional wounds resurface and come out sideways. While anger management can provide helpful strategies, they don’t get to the heart of the issue. Often, anger is what we see on the surface, but the real problem is what’s underneath the anger. Negative beliefs like “I’m helpless,” “I’m out of control,” and “I’m a failure,” start to bubble up, and anger comes to the rescue. It can get us in trouble, but at least it gets the blood pumping. With research-proven EMDR therapy, I help men heal anger at its source so it doesn’t have to be managed.

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.

I often coach men on how to better regulate their emotions, including anger. I can teach you strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, provide relationship insights from the Gottman Method, and help you practice calming strategies to take control back. You might have every right to be angry. But if it’s making things worse, it’s time for a change. At Lion Counseling, our mission is to help you escape the cages that hold you back and become the lion God created you to be.

If you have difficulties controlling your anger or if you are in need of anger management, please contact Dr. April. She will help you understand the underlying issues of your anger and how you display your anger. In addition, she will work with you in decreasing your triggers and increasing your coping skills. Thus instead of letting your anger become unmanageable, let Dr. April help you.

Anger is a natural feeling. It is how we express it that is critical to our relationships. Working on controlling anger to prevent it from becoming aggression is a goal for many. Sometimes we just feel like we can't take much more and it comes across more angry than we expected. To be angry is a normal range of feeling, to be aggressive may require some assistance. We can help!

Anger is a common emotion- one that is neither good nor bad and one that can have positive or negative consequences. Anger management therapy helps clients recognize their anger and develop skills and strategies for effectively managing their anger. I will help you identify triggers and underlying issues, identify your body’s response and/or reaction (physical symptoms) and provide education on the difference between reaction and response, help identify effective ways to express feelings, and greater self-awareness.

Anger is an emotion. It is neither good or bad. It is reads not to let the sunset on our anger. It is what we do with our anger that determines the choice between good or bad. Anger tells us that something has to change. Anger is a motivator, it demands action. Do you have an action plan? Do you control anger or do you let it control you? Do you know your triggers eg. is there an emotional wound you are reacting from? If you find yourself in that place of rage and you are unable to calm; stop, move away, and then count at least to 10.

We help our clients to have greater understanding of themselves and their interactions with others to improve the quality of their relationships. We utilize mindfulness, self-exploration, and self-soothing techniques to help improve clients' emotional regulation skills. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, EMDR or ART, Trauma-Focused CBT, and Existential Therapy are especially helpful for healing trauma and improving interpersonal interactions with others.

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.

DAVID HAS WORKED WITH SEVERAL COURT ORDERED INDIVIDUALS WHO STRUGGLE WITH ANGER MANAGEMENT. HE HELPS THE CLIENT FIND THE ORIGIN OF THIS DISORDER, THEN CREATES STEPS WITH THEM TO HEAL! IT WORKS. FROM EMOTIONAL REGULATION TO DEEP BREATHING METHODS, FROM CBT TO TALK THERAPY, AND WRITTEN EXERCISES THAT WILL SUMMARIZE ONES ANGER ISSUES FROM EARLIER IN LIFE.