Anger Management and Counseling in Wedgefield, FL.

Anger is an essential emotion, but ignoring the secondary feelings underlying anger can create significant problems in your life. My goal is to remove anger from the driver's seat of your life. There are several steps to this process including, understanding anger triggers and pre-triggers and developing a more comprehensive emotional vocabulary. Upon completing therapy with me, you will better understand yourself, be back in the driver's seat of your life, and communicate more effectively with those around you.

Anger can be a powerful emotion, but when it feels overwhelming or out of control, it can disrupt your life and relationships. My approach to anger management is focused on understanding the root causes of your anger, identifying triggers, and developing practical strategies to respond in healthier ways. Together, we’ll create a supportive space to explore your emotions, build self-awareness, and learn techniques to manage anger constructively. You’ll gain tools to foster better communication, reduce conflict, and regain control.

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 help clients manage and conquer anger with a number of approaches. I encourage clients to make lifestyle changes to help with anger. I also counsel clients to employ techniques like mindfulness, meditation and breathing techniques to reduce anger. I train clients to improve their communications abilities and use communications strategies. I also help clients develop assertiveness instead of aggressiveness. To the extent anxiety or depression increase anger issues, I address those in therapy.

Our philosophy on anger management is based not only on potential chemical imbalances, but also misappropriation of how to resolve conflict. Hence, clients will benefit from psycho-educational training on building human relations, interpersonal communication, team building and conflict resolution skills. This is a highly integrative therapeutic approach to anger management counseling. In essence, as clients are taught relational skills their interpersonal communications skills improve. As their interpersonal communication skills develop, they become better practitioners at both conflict resolution as ultimately team building. Of course, self-discovery will be the bedrock of intervention

Anger gets a bad rap. Others focus so much on the anger that they don’t understand the pain, triggers, and trauma that often exists just under the surface. If given the honor of working with you, I’ll not only give you tools to manage the anger, but help you get to the root cause of where it’s coming from in the first place and help it to heal.

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.

Many times anger is the only acceptable emotion, especially for men. Uncovering the feelings, emotions and frustrations that are behind that anger can completely change the dynamic. Let's work to understand what that anger is about and heal it. Decreasing anger can completely change your relationships and increase a sense of calmness and peace in your life. It is never too late to have a happy life.

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.