Anger Management and Counseling in Mountain Lake Park, MD.

My approach to anger management is to have my clients learn to identify body signals that they are getting angry. This helps you catch the anger early so you can make changes that will reduce it. I also help clients identify anger triggers. Triggers are thoughts, behaviors or feelings that lead to anger. Sometimes, people get angry because they have “rules” for how people should act. When other people don’t follow their rules, they get angry. Anger can also have an underlying emotion such as hurt, which the person feels less comfortable expressing. Discovering the underlying emotion and helping the person get comfortable with expressing it can relieve the anger.

Anger is a natural response to hurt and fear but it can cause more pain in our lives if we use it to hurt others, physically or emotionally. Anger that is destructive, usually comes from an old hurt that we are carrying within us. This hurt has been painfully touched by circumstances or by the actions of someone else. First we need to learn ways to stop our hurtful actions by taking a break or walking away. Then, however, we need to turn our attention to the underlying hurt and to bring compassion and care to our own hurt self. You will find that at the same time, you become more compassionate toward other people.

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