Taming the Fire: Practical Anger Management Techniques
Presented by
Dreya Blume, LCSWThis engaging training will provide you with practical, evidence-based techniques to help your clients understand, express, and manage anger in healthy ways.
Overview
1.5 CEs Recorded: Summer, 2025
Anger is a powerful emotion—one that can destroy relationships or, when properly harnessed, become a force for positive change. But how can we help clients regulate anger without suppressing it? This engaging training will provide you with practical, evidence-based techniques to help your clients understand, express, and manage anger in healthy ways. We will explore the psychological and physiological roots of anger, learn how to reframe destructive patterns, and gain hands-on experience with mindfulness, cognitive, and somatic interventions (including Emotional Freedom Technique). Through experiential exercises and case discussions, you will leave with a toolkit of strategies to help your clients transform anger into clarity, empowerment, and constructive action.
Objectives:
- Develop an understanding of the neurological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to anger and aggression.
- Learn evidence-based techniques for helping clients regulate and express anger in healthy, adaptive ways.
- Identify common anger-related thought distortions and behavioral patterns, and explore strategies for shifting them.
- Practice guiding clients through mindfulness, cognitive restructuring, and somatic exercises to reduce reactivity and enhance emotional resilience.
About the Presenter
Dreya Blume (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, author, and educator. Dreya began working in the mental health field in 2004 in southwest Virginia, where she spent almost two decades serving the local transgender community as a gender therapist. She recently moved to Durham, NC, where she focuses on offering continuing education training to therapists and coaching for private practice clinicians who want to expand their business uniquely. Dreya loves to write and is the author of several books, including, “The Tarot Activity Book: A Collection of Creative and Therapeutic Ideas for the Cards,” “Journaling the Tarot,” “Everyone Has a Story: Using the Hero’s Journey and Narrative Therapy to Reframe the Struggle of Mental Illness,” and “Tarot for Transformation: Using the Major Arcana to Discover Your Best Self and Create a Life Worth Living.” All of Dreya’s books (under her former name, Andy Matzner) are available here: https://dreyablume.com/books. Dreya is also passionate about teaching. Before becoming a mental health clinician, she spent many years teaching English as a Second Language in places such as Japan, Australia, Thailand, and Hawaii. Once in Virginia, Dreya worked as an adjunct professor for almost twenty years at Hollins University, teaching gender studies and sociology in their Master of Liberal Studies program. In addition, she spent twelve years teaching future social workers in the human services program at Virginia Western Community College. Learn more about Dreya on her website: https://dreyablume.com/.