Anger Therapy in Denver
Anger keeps getting the best of me
Anger is an extremely common and easily expressed emotion. Sometimes too easy to express.
When anger gets to be a problem is has a tendency to come out when you least want it to. It does serious damage to your relationships. It gets in the way of treating others, especially those closest to you, the way you really want.
Sometimes anger is a slow build into an explosion.
Other times it seems to come out of nowhere.
No matter how it comes you’re left feeling guilty about how it all played out.
You’ve worked hard to get it under control, you tell yourself you’ll keep your cool next time, but the same cycle keeps playing out.
The stakes keep rising. Every explosion raises the tension with your partner. Every time you lose your temper with your kids you beat yourself up a little more. You grit your teeth and try to tolerate it, but your life keeps getting smaller while you do this.
What anger can look like:
Explosions
Frequent arguing
Feeling irritable all the time
Not being who you want to be
Feeling guilty about what you said or did
Struggling to “get it under control”, but coming up short
Missing out of life while you are waiting to calm down.
I can help you break the cycle of anger
We can work together to get to what is underlying anger and build an actionable plan for putting an end to explosiveness. We can find triggers and precipitants and build workable skills to respond differently to them, build skills to respond the way you really want and say what you actually mean. Instead of creating distance with your loved ones we can build an actionable, sustainable plan for ending the cycle of anger and healing those relationships. A plan for being the kind of man that you really want to be.
I have spent more than a decade helping men end their struggle with anxiety. My practice is grounded in well researched, reliable, and evidenced-based methods. Together we use these methods to identify old, unhelpful, counterproductive behavioral patterns, and then build more flexible, adaptive, behavioral patterns.