Anger Management Counseling Long Island in Suffolk County, New York
WHY IS COUNSELING NECESSARY?
Anger is a completely normal emotion that everyone naturally feels from time to time. However, when you feel excessive anger, and this unpleasant emotion starts to seep into the personal, professional, social, and other aspects of your life, it is important that you think about seeking professional advice. If you are living in the Long Island area, you can book an appointment with us regarding counseling for your anger issues.
Many people have a misconception that the only people who go for anger management counseling are those who are obligated to do so under a court order. At times, employers also make it obligatory for some of their employees to seek therapy for their anger after an event occurs at the workplace. While in some cases, violent offenders may be told by the court to seek this therapy, and do not restrict to anger management counseling only.
If certain stressors cause you to feel anger, you become extremely angry with a particular person, you react violently when feeling angry, or if your anger is causing problems with your relationships, friends or job, you may wish to consider anger management therapy.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
In anger management counseling, the counselor does not focus on general therapy for various issues but focuses specifically on anger, its causes and its triggers. The therapy aims to help you overcome an emotional block that your anger is causing you to feel.
A counselor then works with you to help you develop strategies to cope with this anger. Therapy allows you to take a few steps back, look at your stressors and your response to them, and evaluate them from an objective standpoint. It is only when you look at your response from an outsider’s point of view that you realize how disproportionate your reaction was/is, and it’s this realization that compels you to try and change your behavior.
You must express how you feel! Repressing anger can lead you to bottle up your emotions, which can lead to further problems as it can aggravate your angry response when you finally express it. Talking with a counselor can help, as you get a person to listen to you without judgment and help you devise a solution for your problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy is often used in anger management counseling in which the counselor systematically helps the patient overcome anger issues by first identifying their triggering events, analyzing their response to it, and developing alternative methods to cope with that response.
