Anger Management & Emotion Regulation
Are you quick to anger?
Do you overreact and then find yourself feeling guilty or embarrassed later?
Do you have a hard time moving on from something that has made you angry?
Do you cope with anger in unhealthy ways such as substance use or social withdrawal?
Emotion dysregulation can negatively interfere with one's ability to function in daily life, maintain healthy and satisfying relationships, and effectively cope with stress.
What is Emotion Dysregulation?
Emotion dysregulation refers to difficulties in managing or regulating one's emotional experience. This can manifest in various ways, including:
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Experiencing intense or overwhelming feelings
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Difficulty identifying and expressing feelings
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Trouble tolerating distressing or uncomfortable emotion
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Engaging in impulsive or unhealthy behaviours in order to alleviate uncomfortable feelings
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Experiencing prolonged emotional distress
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Frequent negative emotions such as anger
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Difficulty noticing subtle differences between similar feelings such as frustration and anger
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Limited emotional vocabulary
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Narrow emotional experiences (i.e., only experiencing happiness or anger but having difficulty noticing feelings in between)
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Intense feelings that are disproportionate to the context.
Emotion dysregulation is often a feature of other mental health conditions such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and trauma-related disorders. Aspects of emotion dysregulation can also be linked to acute stressors such as work-related or financial stress, grief and loss, significant life changes, or medical conditions.
How Can Anger Management and Therapy for Emotion Regulation Help?
Treatment for emotion dysregulation often involves improving emotional awareness and expression, learning skills to regulate physiological aspects of dysregulation, learning to identify and address factors that contribute to dysregulation, and developing healthy coping mechanisms to manage stress in healthier ways
Therapy also involves determining any underlying conditions that may be interfering with one's ability to effectively regulate and modulate emotional experience and expression.
We can help you:
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Expand your emotion vocabulary
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Learn to recognize subtle differences between similar emotions
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Learn how to effectively communicate emotional discomfort or distress
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Learn how to meet your emotional needs in healthy and effective ways
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Learn how to reduce the intensity of emotion
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Learn how to reduce the frequency of negative emotion
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Build resilience to manage inevitable life stress
We look forward to helping you achieve stability so that you can experience the emotionally rich and fulfilling life you deserve.
Thoughtful Matching
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Good therapy depends on the connection between you and your therapist. But we know that the beginning of your healing journey can be overwhelming and it is hard to know where to start. That is why we developed a thoughtful matching process. We do our best to simplify the process so that you can just focus on feeling better.