ANGER MANAGEMENT

  Certified Anger Management Specialist

                       Dealing with  Stress                              

• How stress underlies anger. Physical, medical, mental and behavioral effects of stress. 

  Developing Empathy      

• How to teach participants ways to increase or improve empathic responses to others.

                     Respond instead of React                

• How to present concept of difference between "reacting" and "responding" to anger/stress triggers.

                   Change Self-Talk                                

• Concept of how self-talk (cognitions) influence emotions.  How to think like an optimist. 

    Assertive Communication

• Harmful communication styles. How to be an assertive communicator. Strategies to handle and resolve interpersonal conflict.

  Adjust  Expectations

• Five steps to adjust expectations in relationships and in the workplace. 

Forgiveness

• Seven steps to forgiveness.

                     Retreat and Think Things Over

• Learning to "stay in the box." (of anger control).  The freeze-frame technique for self-soothing. Changing self-talk during the "retreat" period.

We see clients who are court ordered or clients directed by DSS/CPS