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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Hypnotherapy and Counseling For Anger and Anger Management.

Everyone can get angry, we can all get upset and react irrationally but it’s important to learn how to deal with these situations so we can be in control of our emotions. Many people express anger by shouting, lashing out or even become violent. The key to managing anger is:

• To learn what triggers your anger.
• To challenge your negative thinking processes.
• Learning how to stay calm in difficult situations.

Anger is a natural feeling and a very powerful emotion. Anger can be experienced when you feel frustrated, hurt or rejected. if you allow anger to take over, it can affect your work, family life and your overall wellbeing.

With the careful treatment you will receive, you will be helped to recognise the triggers of your anger and equally learn how to manage your responses. This will be achieved using the empathic skills of cognitive behavioural therapy. If required or requested, the effective therapeutic interventions of hypnotherapy and counseling can also be used to bring about change and help you release yourself from your feelings of anger and frustration.

As with the majority of emotional issues, it is not an event or a situation that causes you to feel angry but it is your negative thought patterns towards the event itself that makes you feel angry.

An Example How Your Thoughts About A Situation Can Make You Feel Angry

Activating Event: You get questioned on something you have or haven't done.

Dysfunctional Thinking and Beliefs: Why is she/he asking me like that. Don't they trust me or something. I hate getting spoken to like I was a child. It just annoys me so much. he/she makes me feel so stupid.

Dysfunctional Emotion Or Negative Behaviour: Feelings of frustration that you believe that you are getting spoken down to. Because you believe this, you react in a defensive way by getting angry.

The above is a simple example and may not have any bearing on your own circumstances but it will give you an idea how your thoughts can affect how you feel and behave.

It is not an event itself that causes you to get angry but it will be your thoughts and beliefs which you attach to the situation that causes the anger response. Because the beliefs are so strong, no amount of reasoning will help you to change the way you feel.

Learning To Challenge Your Thoughts

With the majority of negative thoughts and behaviour, there will be no logic or evidence or very little evidence to support your current thinking which encourages you to get angry and frustrated the way you do, only the beliefs you hold about a situation or event. This is where the skills of cognitive behavioural therapy become very effective. CBT applied at the Life Change Wellbeing Clinic helps you effectively to challenge your thoughts and beliefs, to look for any evidence which supports the negative thought, re-label what the event means to you and then help you to create a more alternative and realistic outlook.

With cognitive behavioural therapy for anger, it is not just a matter of creating a positive thought and all will be ok. You will be helped to create new thought patterns which are realistic and functional which will help you to behave in a more positive way.

Cognitive behavioural therapy for anger works on automatic thoughts and core beliefs that you have about yourself, others or the general world around you. Your negative thoughts fuel the core beliefs you have about yourself. In the above example, 'they don't trust me' and the core belief, 'I look stupid' will fuel your anger emotion and you will go into defensive mode and react in a negative, angry way.

Working together, you will be helped to break your thought processes down into smaller components. When the problem is broken into smaller components it becomes far easier to manage. Additionally, by challenging the thoughts and beliefs in this way, by breaking them down, you may come to the realisation that there isn't actually a problem or the problem is no way as big as you thought it was.

Therapy for Anger and Anger Management

When it comes to treating anger issues, therapy is usually the most effective option. That’s because anger therapy treats more than just the symptoms of the problem, it treats the thoughts and meanings behind your problem.

At the Life Change Wellbeing Clinic, Paul will help you uncover the underlying causes of your anger thoughts; learn how to relax; look at situations in new, less frustrating ways; and develop better coping and problem-solving skills. The cognitive behavioural therapy treatment for anger applied in the clinic will give you the tools to overcome your feelings of anger and will teach you how to use them so you begin to feel better in attainable and achievable steps. When you are able to change how your thoughts view a situation or event, you will be well on your way to remaining much calmer in those situations which currently fuel your anger emotion.

Cognitive behavioural therapy for anger is generally viewed as the most effective form of treatment for anger and is recommended by the NHS as an effective therapeutic intervention to bring about behavioural change and equally encouraged in it's use by NICE, (The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence).

Paul is an approved member of the NHS Trust Register as well as the government supported Complimentary and Natural Healthcare Council, (CNHC), so you can be sure that you will be receiving the very best of therapy available. Cognitive behavioural therapy for anger applied by Paul at the Life Change Wellbeing Clinic focuses on the thinking patterns and behaviours that are triggering and sustaining your feelings of anger. You will be effectively helped to challenge your negative thoughts which will bring about beneficial behavioural change for yourself.

Cognitive behavioural therapy for anger at the Life Change Wellbeing Clinic is not just a talking therapy where you come and sit and talk about how you feel. CBT is very pro-active in helping achieve behavioural change. Cognitive behavioural therapy for anger helps you ultimately to become your own therapist, to find the solutions to your own problems so that long after our brief therapy has finished you will be in possession of an array of tools to help you manage any negative thoughts or feelings that may come your way.

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Please Continue to peruse the pages of this website using the links at the top of the page so you can gather further information on the therapies and symptoms treated. Please feel free to call Paul anytime to discuss the treatment offered in the clinic.