Individual & Couples Therapy | Newport Beach, CA
Treatment focuses on identifying the specific triggers, thought patterns, and physiological cues that precede anger, giving clients an early-warning system for their own escalation before it reaches a boiling point. Rather than trying to eliminate anger altogether, the work centers on lowering the heightened emotional and physiological arousal that fuels it, and building the capacity to respond to provocation deliberately rather than reactively.
Clients are guided to examine what circumstances reliably trigger their anger and to notice their own emotional and bodily state at each stage of arousal — turning those signals into a roadmap for intervening earlier and more effectively. This work often extends beneath the anger itself: for many people, anger functions as a defense mechanism that masks other, more vulnerable emotions such as hurt, fear, or sadness. Identifying what’s really being protected is often the key to lasting change, rather than simply managing the surface reaction.
The aim isn’t to suppress anger or become someone who never feels it, but to develop the self-awareness and coping strategies needed to respond to frustration and conflict in ways that are constructive rather than destructive — building greater mastery over one’s reactions, and by extension, over the situations that once felt unmanageable.
Dr. Seghers sees clients at his Newport Beach office and via telehealth throughout California.
Dr. Seghers sees clients at his Newport Beach office and via telehealth throughout California.
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