Anger Management Perth
Anger is an essential part of the human emotions. Often anger is often seen as a bad emotion and a sign that a person is unsafe or dangerous. Anger is a normal emotional response to perceived or real danger to mount a “fight” response.
Children in our society are often brought up to not show an emotional response as it’s seen as negative. Society is causing people to develop into adults that have not learnt how use their anger response in a “positive” or “appropriate” way.
Anger Management therapy can help you to express and manage your anger. Our Perth based Anger Management therapy aims to provide a framework for you to express your anger in a healthy and grounded way.
Symptoms & Warning Signs Of Anger
Anger manifests in both the body and the mind with symptoms that may include:
- Adrenaline surge in the body that raises blood pressure and heart beat
- Muscles tighten in the body
- Jaws clench and eyes dilate
- Sweating commences
- Shaking in the body
- Gesturing with limbs to attack
- Pacing of the feet
- Chest constrictions and related shallow breathing
- Increased anxiety
- Hyper-vigilance in senses
- Racing thoughts
- Raising of the voice tone
- Abrupt or impatient demands placed on others
- Making threats
- Seriousness and negative mood swing
- Becoming critical or sarcastic
- Baiting another to argue or fight
- Verbal threats
- Being rude or demanding
What Is Healthy Anger
Anger is a part of the fight or flight response that is within all humans. It’s part of our evolution which helps us to respond to real or perceived threats. Effective anger expression can become a positive contributor to your life, success and career. This form of anger does not look “angry”. Instead it’s seen in society as conviction, charisma, authority, strength and confidence.
How Can Psychotherapy And Counselling Help You With Anger Management
Psychotherapy can assist you with understanding the nature and expression of your anger. Energetics Institute’s counsellors can change your expression of anger from being a negative to a safe positive one.
Anger Management Counselling can provide education into your angry ways. It provides appropriate insight into why managing your anger is so important.
Through our Perth based Anger Therapy, we can show and explore the impact anger has on your life. We can then help you to relearn ways to express anger in a safe and grounded fashion. We can also give you the skills to recognize anger that is manifesting, and disarm it before it becomes unmanageable.
What Does Our Anger Management Therapy Include
People who experience anger can sometimes develop a fear around expressing it. This can cause the person to “hold in” their anger until they explode in an unhealthy way. When this happens it reinforces the notion that it is bad and out of control.
Anger Management therapy helps you own your anger and express it in an authentic and embodied way. You will learn to reclaim it, so and transform it into life affirming positive anger. This will strengthen your boundary setting capabilities. Through treatment a therapist can help you adopt effective and essential leadership traits.
As you learn to be safe aware with your own anger, you will feel safe with yourself and others. This goes way beyond managing anger to transforming anger into something healthy. Additionally we will teach you new ways to perceive and react to outside events and triggers. The idea of this is to make sure anger isn’t an automatic “go-to” response. Our Anger Management therapy in Perth can help you gain healthy control over your anger.
Be sure to check out Energetics Institute’s Strategies for Anger Management page.
