BA-AM offers specialist ONE-TO-ONE COUNSELLING to young people, adults, couples and families in your local area.

Its purpose is to fill the gap left by many practitioners who are reluctant to concentrate on anger and stress issues. The feeling among counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists has been that anger is a ‘secondary’ emotion, a distraction from the ‘real’ issues confronting their clients.  Most often, they sidestepped anger because of its perceived volatility, intensity and destructive potential.

Typically, anger was medicated out of existence, denied or punished. One symptom of mismanaged anger stems from suppression. People hold back their anger completely until it builds out of control and explodes, invariably at the wrong time and for the wrong reason. The headlines are full of these events: child abuse, domestic violence, suicide, homicide, mass murder.

Your anger is expensive. It could cost you your job, your friends and your self respect. We at BA-AM specialise in helping people deal with emotional issues in as little as 14 weeks by using our specialist anger counsellors in individual and group settings.

About BA-AM

BA-AM will deal with various aspects of anger and the difficulties it creates.  The Clinic's process begins with identifying the situations that trigger anger attacks that are out of proportion to the presenting problem. The Clinic gives people permission to have this unpleasant but perfectly normal emotion. Then, the Clinic relieves their frustration by giving them a choice: a more constructive way of getting this painful pressure out of their system.  

People on the receiving end of mismanaged anger are also in pain. The Clinic teaches them how to stop behaving in ways that make the situation more hurtful.  People keep making the same mistakes because no one ever told them what their other options are. They come in to the Clinic feeling discouraged and unable to cope. After people meet with us about managing their anger, they leave with many new choices and new tools. They feel more equipped, willing and able to try them out on their jobs or at home with their spouses, their parents, or their children. They come back with reports of their successes and they want to know more, so we tell them. The more successes they have, the better their relationships become, and the better they feel about themselves.

Using the Aggression Prevention Training (APT) system of coaching, we replace years of self-doubt with self-respect, discouragement with encouragement, fear with courage, negative control with the positive, and insecurity with security within oneself. It does not take twelve years on a couch. We do not have that kind of time and neither do you!

Empower yourself with the Clinic’s techniques. We teach people how to use an angry situation to strengthen our most important and most overlooked relationship, i.e. our relationship with ourselves. We learn to stop being afraid of our anger and to start seeing negative situations as opportunities to do something productive and constructive for both ourselves and our loved ones.

Our three-prong approach to treating anger issues at the Clinic are:

• We address the current anger by teaching the client to recognize anger and to validate it for themselves and other. We also teach them how to recognize mischief, what people do to get across the point that they are angry and how not to engage in other's mischief. Mischief is defined as doing anything that does not need to be done or saying anything that does not need to be said. In summary, by learning the definitions of anger and mischief and its four purposes and how to recognize them, the client immediately has new anger tools to use to disengage from mischief and being baited. Anger if often like a tug of war. We teach the clients that they have the choice not to pick up the rope, to do the unexpected. Another tool we teach is to "Agree to disagree". It is a verbal form of answering that disengaging the client from mischievous arguments.  
   
• We address the anger that people have been stuffing for years. This anger can cause them to over react to current anger. It can cause them illnesses in the present such as acid reflux, headaches, anxiety, etc. We teach them how to get rid of this built-up anger and to release it using another simple but highly effective tool giving them instant relief.  
   
• We address the issues that caused them to stuff the anger and caused the situations that originally shoved them through our doors; their "attitudes" or beliefs. Unless we are able to identify and replace their mistaken attitudes, they will eventually react and find themselves in another anger outburst situation.

Initial Assessments

Assessments need to be taken by everyone attending the Clinic.

Assessments last 60 minutes and cost £135.00.

Corporate Fee: £225.00

Payment needs to be made in advance of your appointment, by cheque or over the phone using a Debit or Credit Card (we do not accept American Express)

Individual Sessions

All sessions are a 50 minute hour.

Clients are obliged to contract to fourteen, 50 minute sessions in order to complete the course. 

A workbook as well as Mike Fisher's 'Beating Anger' is required for the course at a flat fee of £17.99. 

All sessions need to be paid in advance. A payment plan is provided below. 

Adults

£100 per session. Cost: £1400.00. (14 sessions) 

Corporate fee: £175 per session. £2450.00 (14 sessions)

Couples

£145 per session. Cost: £2030.00. (14 sessions) 

Children and Young Adults (8 to 18 years old) 

£100 per session. A parent needs to agree to be in the room with the child. Cost: £1400.00. (14 sessions)  

Families

£145 per session. Cost: £2030.00. (14 sessions) 

Payment Plan 

We ask that all clients agree and contract to a payment plan, as follows:

• The first 6 sessions to be paid before Session 1 commences. 
• The following 4 sessions to be paid before Session 7 commences.
• The final 4 sessions to be paid before Session 11 commences.
• The cost of the workbook and Mike Fisher's 'Beating Anger' at £17.99 will be added to the first instalment as a one off charge.
• Further sessions can be be negotiated after the fourteen sessions have been completed which will be discussed between you and your facilitator.
• Payments can be made by cheque or Debit/Credit Card over the phone (NB we do not accept American Express)

All sessions include FREE: 

• DVD of ‘Angry With My Father’
• Access to an online support group