Through a safe and confidential environment you will:

• Process your feelings and emotions related to your struggles
  
• Increase self-awareness and insight
• Work through your unresolved past experiences, struggles and difficult situations
• Build on your strengths and abilities to reach healthy decisions
• Develop the solutions needed for growth and change
• Establish meaningful goals for your life and reconnect with healthy relationships
  
  

Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy human emotion. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems at work, in personal life, family relationships and in the overall quality of life. If your angry behavior is causing difficulties in your life, come join us for 12-week class designed to help you learn to manage anger.

• Learn strategies to reduce anger once it flares
  
• Generate alternative healthier ways of thinking and behaving when you are angry.
  
• Learn conflict resolution and problem-solving models.
  
• Increase awareness of the role anger plays in your life
  
• Identify trigger thoughts and learn early warning signs
  

Anger Management Class Curriculum:

Session 1:  Introduction of Group Members, Guidelines and Rules
Members will share the reasons they decided to join the group, expectations and outcomes.

Session 2:  Anger: Friend or Foe? Introduction to the Problem and Types of Anger
The session will focus on defining anger, exploring triggers and the underlying causes of anger    

Session 3: The Process of Anger and its Triggers
Members will identify the process of anger, how anger can be helpful or harmful and triggers provoking anger

Session 4: Defusing Anger by Managing Stress
Members will learn how stress management and relaxation can help and improve reactions to anger provoking situations and better manage anger

Session 5: Handling Anger Effectively
Members will learn how to express anger and frustration through healthy communication and problem-solving skills.

Session 6:  Managing Conflict
Members will identify and apply conflict resolution skills to disputes and disagreements

Session 7:  Turn Your Anger into Forgiveness and Grace
Members will recognize that forgiveness is possible and is a vital aspect of bringing the process of anger into conclusion.

Session 8:  Empathy and Emotional Awareness
Members will identify their ability to empathize with others and gain insight for emotions provoking anger.

Session 9:  Strategies to Manage Anger
Participants will explore how to apply strategies such as a time-out for managing anger and will learn the time-out coping skill to de-escalate anger

Session 10:  Plan to Change Your Life by Changing Your Thinking
Members will determine how thinking can escalate their angry feelings and behavior. They will explore how to change thinking that is distorted and unrealistic

Session 11:  Building Successful Relationships
Members will identify ways to build healthy relationships through empathy skills and supportive communication and thus, defuse conflict and anger.

Session 12:   Summary of Workshop and Evaluation
Members will participate in discussion about their experience and skills learned. Group members will complete a written evaluation about the Anger Management Workshop

 Curriculum is based on Anger Management Institute Training Modules

For more information:

Contact Elaine B Caraccioli, LCSWR

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Anger Management

​Services Provided

Individual Therapy

Family Therapy

Hope * Change * Power 

New Spirit Consultation is devoted to providing therapy to families and individuals struggling with the challenges and pressures they face in their daily lives.

Our purpose is to help individuals improve their well-being through recognizing and embracing their own resources and capabilities. Our services help support person's inner strengths and assist in gaining acceptance and confidence  within their own self empowering them to take a lead in their own care and healthy life style.

Family therapy will help couples, families and parents to work through difficult family conflicts. It can be a significant component in the healing process to:

• Enrich your relationship with your partner and children
  
• Improve communication among family members
• Learn to work towards healthy conflict resolution