Anger Management Counselling

Individual sessions  with a Registered Psychologist

Anger management counselling is available across 40 locations in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast & Central Coast.

Anger is the natural emotion we all experience as our response to a perceived threat, frustration, or assault to our sense of self. This natural and healthy anger is sometimes called Primary anger as it has a problem solving purpose, that is, it motivates and energises us to fix the problem we are experiencing.

However, there are 3 other forms of anger, all of which create problems in our lives. The first of these is Secondary anger which is a response or defense against a softer primary emotion like feeling hurt, sad or vulnerable. This very often happens for men, who are commonly taught that to be socially acceptable as a man, it is ok to be angry but not ok to feel or express hurt or vulnerable feelings.

The next problematic anger is Instrumental anger which involves using anger to strategically influence others. People will often use this if they realise that they can get their way or gain control by raging.

The third problem anger is Maladaptive anger, and this involves those old familiar angry feelings that occur repeatedly, that do not change, and which have come from past trauma, wounds from your unmet childhood needs and/or unfinished business with significant others from your past.

When you feel that anger is creating a problem in your life, or your partner or those around you are complaining about, or are scared of your anger, you can be almost certain that it is because you are unwittingly using anger in any or all of these 3 problematic ways.

When you are doing so, you will find that it does NOT help to "let it rip, and express your anger".On these occasions, it only makes things worse, creating damage to your relationships.

It is very important to understand what is healthy anger, which is healthy to acknowledge and express, and which is unhealthy anger, which is important to bypass, contain, or explore further.

In our Individually tailored Anger Management counselling sessions, your Psychologist will help you explore the following components in assisting you in managing your anger:

1. Exploring Triggers. Recognise what you do to set yourself up to get angry.

 2. Cognitive Restructuring. Explore irrational and exaggerated thinking or maladaptive thoughts that underlie your unhealthy anger.

 3. Anger Release Options – Find those activities that cause you to release energy from your body, both active and passive. These do not include smoking, drinking, or eating, as they are considered self medicating and are not helpful.

 4.  Awareness and Control – We help you set up your Personal Anger Monitor, which include physical, behavoural and emotional signals, and assess your Levels of Anger, and also help you develop strategic choices at each level.

 5. Exploring & resolving sources of anger from the past.  We help you explore and process the sources underlying your anger from the past, the unexpressed, disowned and accumulated experiences of pain and fear for you.

Anger management counselling sessions by our Registered Psychologists are 50 mins
Cost: $150  ($170 for after hours sessions)

Private Health Insurance and Medicare Rebates apply

Phone 1300 830 552 to enquire about locations closest to you or to make an appointment.

SYDNEY CBD:
Darlinghurst
SYDNEY NORTH:
Mosman	Spit Junction	Mona Vale
Gosford
SYDNEY SOUTH:
Caringbah
SYDNEY WEST:
Windsor Penrith	The Ponds Dulwich Hills	Nth Parramatta
MELBOURNE:
Eisternwick East Melbourne Camberwell	Box Hill Preston Yarraville	Toorak Blackburn CBD (Queen St)
BRISBANE
Wishart Woolloongabba	CBD (Wickham Tce) Chermside	Ashgrove Toowong
PERTH
West Leederville O'Connor	Morley	North Fremantle
ADELAIDE
CBD North Adelaide	Malvern Kings Park	Norwood
GOLD COAST
Southport	Miami	Coolangatta
SUNSHINE COAST
Maroochydore
CENTRAL COAST
Gosford