Digest August 2025 – Anger

Anger Management – Understanding and Regulating Strong Emotions

Everyone experiences anger—but when it becomes frequent or uncontrollable, it can damage relationships, careers, and health. This article explores the roots of anger, signs it may be affecting your life, and how therapy can help you better understand your triggers and develop healthy, constructive coping strategies.

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Therapist Spotlight: Mariah Abdel-Fattah, MS, LPC-IT
Mariah provides a calm, welcoming presence and uses a client-centered approach, blending Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and trauma-informed care. She supports a wide variety of clients—including children, adolescents, adults, families, and couples—focusing on anxiety, trauma/PTSD, grief, anger management, stress, and family dynamics.

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Therapist Spotlight: Jessica Ramdohr, MS, LPC-IT, SAC-IT
Jessica offers a strength-based, integrative therapy style rooted in a person-centered approach. Her specialties include addictions, anger management, anxiety, Christian counseling, depression, grief, PTSD and trauma, relationship issues, self-esteem, and stress management. Her mission is tailored support that honors each client’s individuality.

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Book Recommendation:

“Will I Ever Be Free of You?” – Navigating a High-Conflict Divorce from a Narcissist

By Karyl McBride, Ph.D.

Divorcing a narcissistic partner can be emotionally exhausting and damaging to the entire family. In this powerful book review, you’ll explore how Dr. Karyl McBride guides readers through the painful complexities of a high-conflict divorce—offering insight, validation, and practical tools for protecting your children and reclaiming your emotional health.

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Podcast Pick:

Speaking of Psychology: How to keep anger from getting the best of you, with Howard Kassinove, PhD, and Raymond “Chip” Tafrate, PhD

American Psychological Association

Anger is a normal human emotion, a natural reaction when you feel that something or someone has done you wrong. But anger can also turn violent and dangerous, can ruin relationships and can interfere with our health and happiness. Howard Kassinove, PhD, of Hofstra University, and Raymond “Chip” Tafrate, PhD, of Central Connecticut State University, discuss the difference between healthy and harmful anger, strategies to cope with anger, and why “primal screams,” rage rooms and other forms of anger catharsis can do more harm than good. 

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