What is the goal of anger management?
The goal of anger management is to reduce both your emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes. That means you learn to manage both how you feel and how your body reacts to what you feel, emotionally. Biofeedback is one way to help reduce the habitual responses you have to anger. A good mental health counselor can provide other helpful ways to stem the tide of reaction that can lead to inappropriate responses of anger. We can’t just get rid of, or avoid, the things or the people that enrage us, nor can we change them, but we can learn to control our reactions. We can train out mind to think and respond in a different way to feelings of and expression of anger. Do you need anger management counseling? If you feel that your anger is really out of control, if it is having an impact on your relationships and on important parts of your life, you might consider counseling to learn how to handle it better. A psychologist or other licensed mental health professional can
