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How to recover from a moment of anger in a high-stakes meeting. How to write the email differently. How to hold a hard conversation with a peer or report. The skills you can use this week.
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Conditions we treatWorkplace Conflict & Anger Therapy in Los Angeles
Meetings that go sideways. Emails you wish you'd sat on. Feedback that lands harder than it should. The career you've worked hard to build is starting to be defined by how you handle pressure — and you'd like that to stop.
Discreet, confidential care
Evening & telehealth
Most insurance in-network
You're good at your job
That's the strange part.
Most adults who come to us for workplace anger were promoted because of how hard they worked, how much they cared, how willing they were to take ownership.
The same drive
Is now the thing at risk.
Because the way you handle frustration in a high-pressure room has started showing up in feedback, in HR conversations, in relationships with peers and reports that have quietly cooled.
You've had moments
You wished you could take back.
An email. A comment in a meeting. A tone of voice in a one-on-one. The frequency of those moments is the question — and it's a workable question.
And you'd like
A different version of yourself at work.
We do this work with executives, founders, doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, and contractors every week.
A lot of our adult clients are professionals — executives, founders, lawyers, doctors, engineers, teachers, contractors. The thing they share isn't that their anger is worse than anyone else's. It's that their roles have a low tolerance for it. A heated reply on a Slack thread doesn't just feel bad; it gets screenshotted. A short reaction in a meeting doesn't just hurt one relationship; it gets read as character.
If your work is being affected, this isn't a problem you grow out of. It's a skill set you build.
The career you've built deserves to outlast a hard year. Our take
What this can feel like
HR has already had a conversation with you, or you sense one is coming.
You've drafted resignation emails you didn't send. More than once.
You've sent emails you wish you hadn't. More than once.
Direct reports walk on eggshells. You can feel them choosing their words.
Your peers have started looping you in later than they used to.
You replay meetings in your head for hours afterwards.
The career you have is no longer the career you'd describe to someone if they asked.
You've started reading your own Slack messages back before sending and editing the tone three times.
Performance reviews have started using language about "how you communicate" rather than "what you deliver."
The work itself
How therapy can help
Workplace anger is rarely about the workplace. The triggers happen there because that's where the pressure lives — but the patterns underneath usually started somewhere else. The work happens at three layers, and most professional clients pair individual sessions with our group.
The structural
What's the relationship between this work and the rest of your life — and is that relationship sustainable? Many of our professional clients realise the answer halfway through, and the next conversation gets bigger.
Group rehearsal
Our anger management group is where you practice — out loud, with witnesses — the kind of conversation you've been failing in real life. The skills don't fully become skills until they've been said in a room.
Confidentiality at this level matters
If you're a public-facing professional, you may be worried about confidentiality. We follow HIPAA and California's stricter Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA). What you say here doesn't leave the room. More on our privacy practices.
10+ yrsWorking with professionals
Same-weekIntake, typically
TelehealthDiscreet, secure
HIPAA + CMIAConfidentiality protected
You don't have to figure this out alone.
Same-day intake calls. Evening sessions available. Telehealth across California seven days a week.
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