ANGER MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP IN CALGARY
Dealing with Anger Management | Take Back Control Over Your Emotions
Anger Management Workshop
Experience a More Peaceful, Compassionate Version of Yourself with Calgary Mind & Wellness Clinic. At Calgary Mind & Wellness Clinic, we recognize how unmanaged stress and emotional struggles can affect your relationships, work, and overall health.
Our anger management workshops create a supportive environment where participants can identify their triggers, learn effective coping techniques, and develop healthier ways to express emotions. Through interactive exercises and group discussions, you’ll build greater emotional control, improve relationships, and foster a sense of calm and balance.
What Are The Signs That I Might
Need Anger Therapy?
- Frequent arguments or conflicts in relationships
- Difficulty controlling angry outbursts
- Feeling irritable or frustrated over minor issues
- Physical symptoms like clenched fists or jaw
- Frequent arguments or conflicts in relationships
- Difficulty controlling angry outbursts
- Feeling irritable or frustrated over minor issues
- Physical symptoms like clenched fists or jaw
Our 8-Week Program for Anger Management Workshop
Introduction to Anger and Brain Response
- Understanding Anger: Define anger and its purpose.
- How Anger Affects the Brain: Learn how anger triggers the brain’s fight-or-flight response, causing hormonal and physiological changes that affect decision-making and self-control.
- Identifying Triggers: Discover personal anger triggers using the Iceberg Theory.
Recognizing Patterns and Styles
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Personal Anger Styles: Assess your anger style and high-risk situations.
Impact on Brain Function: Understand how repeated anger responses can reinforce reactive patterns in the brain.
Cognitive Restructuring
- Thought Patterns: Utilize the ABC Model to identify and change negative thinking.
- Reframing: Address and alter cognitive distortions.
Stress Management and Relaxation
- Understanding Stress and Relaxation: Explore the stress response and The Family Stress Test.
- Exploring Triggers for Aggression: Review physiological, psychological, and situational triggers.
- Learning New Solutions: Introduction to the SNAPP technique and Anger Scaling management.
Enhancing Communication Skills
- Effective Communication: Learn empathic listening and assertive expression.
- Managing Conflict: Techniques for resolving conflicts calmly.
- Brain and Conflict: Learn how calm communication can prevent the amygdala-driven “fight” response.
Building Emotional Intelligence
- Recognizing Emotions: Increase awareness of emotional triggers and responses.
- Empathy and Brain Plasticity: Enhance empathy through exercises that create new neural connections, fostering better emotional regulation.
- Developing Assertiveness: Understanding different styles of behavior and choosing the appropriate response.
Problem Solving and Making Decisions
- Problem Solving Techniques: Importance of planning and effective problem solving.
- Decision-Making Brain: Understand how developing executive functioning skills supports better choices under stress.
Reflection, Goals, and Future Growth
- Review and Reflect: Summarize key insights and progress made.
- Goal Setting: Create personal goals for future growth.
- Support Systems: Identify support networks to maintain progress.
Certificate of Completion
- After completing the program, clients receive a certificate verifying their progress and commitment to personal growth.
Connect with Dr. Sania Dookie
Book a Free 15-Minute Consultation
Take the first step toward better emotional well-being with anger management support groups.
Benefits of our Anger Management Workshop
Enhanced Psychological Well-Being
Alleviate stress and anxiety caused by unmanaged anger.
Better Coping Skills
Create strategies to manage triggers and respond with calmness in challenging situations.
Improve interpersonal relationships
Enhance communication and build greater understanding with your loved ones and others.
Improve emintional regulation skills
Achieve mastery over emotional reactions and minimize conflicts in everyday life.
Personal Growth
Improve self-awareness and discover more effective and healthier ways to express your emotions.
Conflict Management Skills
Manage disagreements more skillfully and calmly, avoiding emotional escalation.
Dr. Sania Dookie
Mental Health Therapist
Dr. Sania Dookie is a registered Social Worker with the Alberta College of Social Workers. Dr. S. Dookie works with adults and children experiencing: anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief/loss. Other areas of practice include stress, relationship issues, mood changes and postpartum. She utilizes evidence-based and collaborative care.
Dr. S. Dookie provides a welcoming and non-judgemental space, a space where you can focus on what is important to you. Perhaps you are interested in improving your mood, managing stress more effectively, developing coping skills, or adjusting to one of life’s transitions; maybe you are interested in exploring unhelpful long-standing beliefs and patterns.
Read more about Dr. Sania Dookie
Over the past decade, Dr. Sania has been providing mental health and counselling support to individuals, couples and families with mood disorders, lifestyle coaching, stress management, anger management and parenting. Dr. S. Dookie has worked as a Clinical Social Worker and Generalist Mental Health Therapist in Community Mental Health Services, Child and Youth therapist and Sexualized Trauma Specific Counsellor.
Therapeutic approaches used: Sania considers herself an eclectic counsellor. However, she uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to support clients in being their own self-coaches. Along with CBT, Sania utilizes the narrative approach, strength-based approach, person-centred approach, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy from a biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective and Christian Counselling.