My approach is unique, grounded not only in professional practice, but also in my lifelong personal experience and exploration of my own anger. I offer fresh insights and practical tools for understanding and managing your angry behaviour, drawing on thousands of hours of conversation with clients who look just like you and me. You will learn from the unique models I have developed over many years of experience, These will transform your understanding of yourself and your anger.
Anger is often is judged by the bad behaviours that we use to express it. It can get in the way of healthy communication in families and within organisations. At the deepest level anger gives us important information about our way of being and our existential dilemmas. Your journey, accompanied by me, will be challenging, rewarding and unique to you.
Areas I Work With
I work with clients from all walks of life. My CPD courses are focused on Anger for Professionals individually and in companies (bespoke courses).
Course details – Making Anger Your Friend (AP-W)
This is my specialist course if your angry behaviour is causing problems in your family, for you and especially for your children. I have helped many hundreds of people change their lives over twenty years. You will be in the best and safest of hands. On this course you will learn:
- How to be angry politely
- A simple technique to immediately stop you shouting and swearing
- To be less impatient
- The right thing to say in sticky situations
- To avoid road rage
- How to be heard without raising your voice
- That being happy is more important than being right
- To set a better example for your children and be a better parent
- To deal with kids that get up late for school every day
- To cope with traffic, lateness and all the other things that make you angry
- Focus on the important things in life, not get angry at things that don’t really matter
Learning these will make you and your loved ones calmer and happier. This will make a marked difference to your life.
Course information: The next course will run Friday 3rd October – Sunday 5th October 2025. Times are Friday 5-9pm, Saturday 10-6pm, Sunday 10-4pm. This course is unique, specialist, the most advanced anger course of its type in the UK, developed over more than a decade. In our smaller and more intimate group you have the opportunity to explore your anger in depth and to receive significant individual attention. Throughout the course you are guaranteed the best quality of attention and learning experience. You will learn things that will make a difference to your life. Also included is a thirty page A4 workbook full of vital additional information and explanations of the course material, intended to support you during and after the course. Much of the material is unique having been created specially for this course and is not available from any other source.
More details: https://www.angerplanet.co.uk/anger-management-classes/
Course details – Anger for Professionals (AP-1)
This accredited Zoom course (six hours CPD), next running September 20th 2025, will help you to understand and work with anger in the therapy room and your workplace. It is specifically for individual therapists, counsellors, nurses, doctors, police, social workers and anyone else faced with anger in the workplace. It is designed to support your understanding of anger and how you address anger in your clients and offers six hours accredited CPD.
I have developed unique models such as The Anger Engine. This original model maps the processes which drive angry outbursts and raises the possibility of interrupting the habitual trigger/behaviour dynamic and adopting healthier behaviours as well as deeper self-awareness.
You will learn key techniques to pass on to your clients which will help them manage their behaviour and express anger in a healthy way. You will receive guidance on how to remain calmer and contained when faced with an angry client. You will approach anger in your clients with more confidence and less fear and through your own understanding will be better placed to teach them that it is “OK to Feel Angry” and that anger can be expressed in a different way.
Anger has a bad reputation – we will define “what anger is” – understanding this can be transformational. We will talk about how anger gives important information and how this can be confused with our history and perceptions.
Course aims:
- Build skills to handle your clients’ anger, support them in expressing anger in a healthy way
- Learn healthy, practical ways to manage anger for yourself and others
- Distinguish between angry feelings and angry behaviours
- Change your relationship with anger
- See anger as valuable information rather than a negative force
- Recognize that it’s OK to feel angry — anger is natural and human
What you’ll learn:
- Increased confidence in addressing anger in therapy rooms and workplaces. Practical tools and techniques for managing anger effectively
- Identify and interrupt the cycle – The Anger Engine from trigger to angry behaviour
- Containment strategies to stay calm under pressure
- Powerful phrases to use when dealing with anger
- A simple and easy technique to prevent harmful reactions like shouting or swearing
- Techniques to express anger healthily in all areas of life
- Understand the difference between historic anger and present anger
More details: https://www.angerplanet.co.uk/anger-management-classes/anger-for-professionals-ap1-therapists-professionals/
I will work with you to support and guide your exploration of what’s not working in your life and find ways of getting more satisfaction. As a humanistic counsellor and psychotherapist, I regard you as the expert on yourself. So, I am interested in working with the whole of you, your knowledge and your confusion, your joy and your pain, with the aim of supporting you to know more of yourself. With that increased awareness comes the possibility of change. I am empathetic and can also be challenging; I am goodwilled and will always act in your best interests. I don’t have a one-size-fits-all approach; we are all unique and I will get to know you as an individual and work with you in the way that best supports you.
Qualifications and Training
I am a full member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy) and a UKAHPP Associate member (UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners). I hold a Diploma in Anger Management from BAAM (British Association of Anger Management). I further trained and graduated from the much-respected Spectrum Psychotherapy Practice, specialising in Humanistic and Gestalt psychotherapy. I also hold the Spectrum Certificate of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I have an MBA (University of Westminster 1991) and a BA HONS (Leeds University 1978). I have also been awarded the BACP Certificate of Proficiency.
I have worked as a consultant for many blue chip and international companies at the highest level. I have run management training courses including the BA 2nd Year at the London Metropolitan University. I was a founder and Board member of the International Managers Forum in 1992 (now MMF) and have represented them at the House of Commons and internationally.
I also have experience in residential social work, counselling and key work. For many years I was a Board member of the Alone In London Service homelessness charity (ALS).