You can handle your emotions differently.
Therapy for
Anger &
Emotion Regulation
You feel like exploding all of the time—and sometimes you blow up.
Almost every day you wake up feeling agitated and angry; a simmering frustration that builds up inside of you day by day until you have to let it out. You swallow your words and keep them to yourself as long as you can, but sometimes it becomes too much for you to bear, and you end up doing something destructive as a result.
You’re not proud of it, but you can’t seem to stop yourself whenever it happens. You keep snapping at people, raising your voice at times, and becoming so overwhelmed you shut down and try to shut the world out. You criticize yourself every time and tell yourself to be better, to learn to calm down and push your emotions aside.
But it’s getting worse.
It’s getting harder to keep inside. Your usual coping skills aren’t working anymore and you’re scared you’re going to end up abandoned by everyone in your life if it keeps happening.
You don’t want to hurt yourself or hurt others anymore.
Feel familiar?
You might be…
→ Snapping, yelling, or shutting down and withdrawing during conflict
→ Feeling on edge on a daily basis
→ Struggling to express your feelings in a clear, direct way with others
→ Feeling out of control in certain moments, and beating yourself up after the fact
→ Holding in frustration that builds into resentment
Together, We Can Change That
Therapy helps you understand where your emotional responses are coming from—and change them.
Listening to your emotions and reacting to them are two different actions.
Sometimes we confuse the idea of “being mad”—or “being sad”—and our reactions accordingly (yelling, crying, saying mean things, etc.) as the same thing. In reality, we can have an emotion inside of us, and in most cases, choose how to act on that emotion. Being able to make that choice takes practice in slowing ourselves down long enough for us to examine how our emotions compel us to act versus how we want to act when our emotions are heightened and on edge.
Anger signals to use when something isn’t working or when a boundary has been crossed for us. Some of my clients were taught at a young age to react to their anger in a way that has been unproductive for them, and has left them exhausted and wanting to learn a different way to handle their emotions. Together, we work in a way that feels manageable, so that we can examine your patterns around anger and what happens before it becomes overwhelming. I use a holistic approach so that we can process what’s underneath the intense emotions and not just do surface level work.
When I work with clients on anger and emotion regulation, I work with them on coping skills and daily strategies, as well as helping learn about the origins of their patterns so that we can take care of the problem at the root. Overtime, clients that work with me have been able to meet their goals in feeling less reactive and more in control to how they response to stressful situations. They no longer feel overtaken and swept away by then, but instead are able to express them in a way that feels manageable and gets their needs met.
Therapy can
help you…
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We slow things down and build awareness so you can respond more intentionally, rather than reacting automatically.
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As your patterns shift, emotional moments feel less extreme—and you spend less time replaying or recovering from them.
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You learn how to communicate what you’re feeling in a way that’s direct, grounded, and more likely to be heard. No more breakdowns when trying to communicate with others.
FAQs
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Yes. Emotional regulation isn’t just about anger—it’s also about understanding patterns like shutting down, avoiding, or disconnecting. We work with whatever your system tends to do under stress.
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There’s usually a reason your reactions feel intense. Often, they’re connected to past experiences or patterns you learned over time. Therapy helps you understand those responses and gradually shift them so they feel more manageable.
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No. Anger is a normal, useful emotion. My goal with clients to eliminate anger or any other emotions—it’s to understand what it’s signaling and learn how to respond to it in a way that actually helps you.
You deserve to have a peaceful life.
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”