Counselling for Anger

Anger is a natural human emotion that everyone experiences from time to time. However, when anger becomes uncontrollable, it can significantly impact your life, work, relationships, health, and overall happiness.

While anger is an emotion we all feel, the way we express it sometimes stems from early childhood experiences and how anger is modelled to us from a young age.

There are variations of anger, some of which include: chronic anger, retaliatory anger, passive-aggressive anger as well as volatile anger to name a few.

If this emotion is negatively impacting your relationships with others and yourself, there are some tools you can learn to express it in a safer way.

Taking the time, having patience and being open and ready to learn to express anger are important factors when seeking to make changes. Also being comfortable with exploring what led you to counselling in relation to anger may be difficult but necessary if you are wanting to understand yourself to move forward.

When seeking counselling in relation to problems with anger, it's important that the counsellor is open-minded, not judgemental and will facilitate sessions online or in-person that are safe and welcoming.

Counselling for anger involves the counsellor hearing your story and helping you to understand how and why your anger occurs and where it potentially stems from.

It also involves helping you to recognise triggers and manage and express these safely and authentically to you. One or more approaches will be utilised in sessions, depending on your story and the changes you are wanting to make and then each session will involve time, time to allow for your story to unfold naturally. This way, positive changes can be made slowly that are lasting.

Note: Regarding the above picture - We understand that the picture above is of a male however, we also understand that anger is an emotion that men, women and gender fluid individuals may feel from time to time. This picture was used only as an example of an individual in a counselling session.

For more information regarding counselling for anger, please email us at: halen@wellbeingcounselling.co.nz