Four Filters Evaluating Anger Management
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Sunday, July 17th, 2016 in Anger Management. No Comments
Our anger management counselors understand the damage caused by out of control anger. It damages marital relationship and families. Our anger management therapists can provide tools to help you deal with your anger. Everyone struggles with anger. This blog will provide advice for anger control, releasing frustrations, effective communication, and resolving inner conflict.
This anger management blog has been developed for you to learn successful ways of dealing with your anger. Our anger management classes can also service to help you quickly solve your anger management problems with the help of effective problem solving skills. In this blog, you will find assertive communication skills, relaxation techniques, and boundary setting.
Our anger management groups and individual counseling sessions are designed to get to the root of the problem under your anger. Don’t hesitate to call our center at 303-933-5800. Schedule an individual counseling session with one of our anger management therapists.
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Sunday, July 17th, 2016 in Anger Management. No Comments
There are Four Key Filters: Moods. If you are in a bad mood, your negative emotional state can be a filter. And if you are in a bad mood, you are more likely to perceive whatever someone says or does more negatively, no matter how positive he or she is trying to be. Moods are […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Saturday, July 2nd, 2016 in Anger Management. No Comments
Digging Deeper Into Anger Management If you are doing your work in anger management, you have learned how to become aware of your anger, how to stop yourself when you are getting angry, and how to calm yourself down. You have also started to evaluate your anger by considering why you got angry and then […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 in Anger Management. No Comments
Anger Management Tool: A Look In The Mirror Now think about yourself. When you get angry, it is usually over something that is a real wrong? Is it about a true injustice in the world? Do you find yourself angry about oppression or starving children? Do you find yourself saying, “that’s not right!” about human […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Friday, March 25th, 2016 in Anger Management. No Comments
Anger Management Denver Anger can ruin marriages, families, and yourself. Our marriage counselors often encounter anger issues in working with couples and direct the individual to work on the anger in individual counseling sessions. Once you have identified your thoughts you need to determine if is is a real wrong or a perceived wrong. Sometimes […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Friday, March 18th, 2016 in Anger Management. No Comments
Anger Management Tools: Thoughts The first step in this process is to identify your thoughts, or what you are thinking about that is making you mad. What i your trigger though? Are you have wrong thoughts about your relationship? As we’ve said, the reason you are mad is not because of what happened, but because […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Sunday, January 3rd, 2016 in Anger Management. No Comments
Take care of yourself emotionally. If you are in a good emotional state you will be less likely to get angry. If you are emotionally bankrupt, just about anything will set your anger off. Some ways to improve your emotional health: Cultivate emotional supports Spend time serving others Rest Laugh Create healthy personal boundaries for […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Saturday, December 12th, 2015 in Anger Management. No Comments
To calm yourself down, you will need to learn some positive ways to teach your body to calm down when you are upset. The first rule of positive coping is: don’t hold it in. Avoidance is a negative coping strategy, and so dealing with your anger is important. It’s normal to fee sadness, anxiety, anger […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Saturday, November 14th, 2015 in Anger Management. No Comments
There are three main categories of negative coping. Drugs and Alcohol Venting Avoidance If you are using these methods to calm yourself, you may be succeeding in the short therm, but you are hurting yourself in the long run. Drugs and Alcohol Many, many people use drugs and alcohol for negative coping. If you are […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Saturday, November 7th, 2015 in Anger Management. No Comments
There are two ways that people calm themselves down: positive coping and negative coping. Both of these methods calm you down. Make no mistake–you can get the stress out by using either positive or negative coping. But there is a big difference between the two. With negative coping, you succeed in calming yourself down but […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Friday, May 22nd, 2015 in Anger Management. No Comments
Anger Management Cues When we are starting to get angry, our body sends us physical cues to tell us that there is a problem. These are instant, physiological sensations that we have no control over. Different people experience anger differently in their body, but we all receive cues of some sort when we are getting […]