Psychologist-led support for anger that has started costing you relationships, work or your sense of who you are — for adults and adolescents, including court and employer referrals.
Anger is not the problem to be removed. It is a normal emotion that carries useful information — usually that something matters, or that a boundary has been crossed. The problem is what it costs when it arrives faster than you can think, lands on people who did not cause it, or is the only emotion that gets through.
Most people referred for anger management already know they do not want to be like this. What they have not had is a model of what is happening in the seconds before it escalates, and skills that work at that speed rather than in hindsight. That is most of the work.
Related approaches and areas: DBT, trauma and PTSD, couples therapy.
Medicare rebates available with a GP Mental Health Care Plan. In person in Bella Vista or by telehealth across NSW.
Anger has a sequence, and it is slower at the start than it feels. Identifying the earliest reliable signal — physical, not cognitive — is what makes intervention possible, because by the time you are thinking about it, it is usually too late.
Anger frequently sits on top of something else: humiliation, fear, exhaustion, grief. That is not an excuse for its effects, and naming the underlying emotion is often what reduces the intensity.
De-escalation that depends on remembering a technique mid-surge does not hold. The work is on what happens earlier — load, sleep, alcohol, and the exit you plan before you need it.
Anger damages relationships through accumulated incidents, and apology alone does not repair them. Where the other person is willing, including them in the work makes repair far more likely to hold.
No. Most people who come have never been physically violent. The common reasons are the effect on a partner or children, consequences at work, and not wanting to be the person they become.
Yes, and we also see employer and family-law referrals. What can be reported to a third party, and what cannot, is set out clearly before the first session rather than afterwards.
No. Anger is a normal emotion and usually a signal worth understanding. The work is on what it costs and how fast it escalates, not on whether you are entitled to feel it.
Often usefully, yes — particularly for the repair part. Whether that is joint sessions or separate work alongside couples therapy depends on the situation and is decided together.
Typically 6–12 sessions. Longer where anger follows trauma, because the trauma usually needs addressing for the anger to shift.
Medicare rebates available with a GP Mental Health Care Plan. In person in Bella Vista or by telehealth across NSW.