When Anxiety Makes You Angry: CBT Anger Management Skills for Teens With Anxiety-Driven Anger
Anxiety can look like anger, like stress, like perfectionism… and regardless of how it looks, it’s getting in the way of everything else. When Anxiety Makes You Angry is a CBT skills book written for teens, to help them really get underneath the surface of their explosive temper.
Hey, I’m Kelsey!
I’m an anxiety and anger management specialist and I can’t wait to help.
When Anxiety Makes You Angry helps teens dig in, and really figure out what’s going on underneath their explosive outbursts.
I’ve worked for years with kids, teens, and families in the St. Louis area. Hundreds of teens and parents have come to me. Parents report concerns about their teens’ temper tantrums and outbursts. Teens tell me that their parents just don’t understand.
This is a book for anyone who knows they aren’t just angry, they’re overwhelmed. But nobody else seems to get it. It’s for the teens who get in trouble all the time in class, for the graduating seniors who are freaked out about college, for the first-year high school students who are so overwhelmed about doing well that they snap at the smallest thing. It’s a book for you, because you’re here, you’re reading this, and you want to get to work and feel better.
Anger is often masking something else, like anxiety. So when we just deal with what’s going on externally, we miss the whole internal picture. When Anxiety Makes You Angry focuses on a whole area of need that many therapists, pediatricians, and other helping professionals are just starting to learn more about.
Powerful tools to help you manage the anxiety that makes you angry
Using a proven-effective approach rooted in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), When Anxiety Makes You Angry will help you identify the anxiety beneath your anger, accept difficult emotions—rather than fighting or trying to ignore them - and learn healthy coping and self-regulation skills to help you find emotional balance. You’ll also discover how to “train your brain” to stop and think before reacting; and how to choose calm over chaos when faced with the things that trigger your anxiety or anger.
The teen years are full of changes, and sometimes it can be hard to deal with all the worry, uncertainty, and setbacks (without getting angry). But with the right tools, you can take control of anxiety and the difficult emotions it causes - and face the challenges ahead with confidence and a clear head.
This friendly guide has your back!
