Midtown Marriage and Family Therapy, PC
271 Madison Avenue, Suite 708, New York, NY 10016
917-968-5599
Treating anger in relationships has been a large part of our therapeutic work
since Midtown Marriage and Family Therapy, PC was established
in 2001.
We bring a unique background to the table. Not only do we really know about
anger, but we are also systemically trained as Marriage and Family Therapists
(MFTs) to provide the best services for relationships. We understand the co-dependent,
cyclical dynamics anger creates in couples and families, and we know how to
break them.
We see anger as a protection. An often out-of-control, suffocating, and abusive
protection, which hides the vulnerable self: the wounded child inside that
has been unseen, unheard, and silent. We provide a deep, insightful look at
your core way of existing in relationship to your self and others.
We don’t simply manage anger. Often times an immense
amount of pain and suffering precedes anger, and managing it with behavioral
techniques is a short-term bandage that easily comes undone when triggered.
Instead, we help clients to identify the pain and suffering that has been
masked by anger. Angry feelings, when not understood and expressed in healthy
ways, become defenses which continuously launch attacks for the purpose of
destroying the person, thing, idea, etc. which triggered the anger in the
first place.
We work with clients to move through defense structures and into self-expression
for the purpose of healing their suffering. We believe in each individual
client’s inherent strength to create change and help actualize this
potential. We accept client’s struggles with anger and understand the
shame and embarrassment that follows hurting those closest in relationship.