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FREE Live Virtual Event

2-Day Intensive Anger Management Certification Training:
Mindfulness-Based Tools for Impulse Control, Reduced Emotional Reactivity and Long-Lasting Change

March 21–22 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit, certification, and certificate of completion are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.

Pavel Somov, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of clinical experience and the author of Anger Management Jumpstart: A 4-Session Mindfulness Path to Compassion and Change (PESI Publishing, 2013).

Full of practical applications, experiential exercises and detailed instruction, Dr. Somov will show you how you can:
  • Employ rapid fire techniques for managing anger in the moment
  • Build greater engagement and make angry and avoidant clients feel heard
  • Improve impulse control and self-regulation with a 4-session approach
  • Use group work strategies to reinforce skill acquisition
  • Give clients the tools they need to communicate anger without aggression
  • Tactfully introduce clinical homework to people who don't want to be told what to do
  • And much more!

Best of all, Plus, you'll end this FREE training with the education you need to become a Certified Specialist in Anger Management (CSAM) through Evergreen Certifications!

Don't miss your chance to fundamentally change your approach to working with anger and add to your clinical toolbox!

This opportunity may not come again, so register now!


Here’s what your peers are saying about this training:
"Very useful and thorough information that feels easy to access and put to practice."
— Caroline R., Behavioral Health
"Dr. Somov, has really answered questions for me that others left unanswered."
— Sonny M., Counselor
"Superb presentation. Learned so much. Thank you."
— Nancy B., Counselor
"Dr. Somov was very engaging--I would take every course he offered if I could!"
— Danielle B., Social Worker
"I was validated in this training on how I was approaching therapy with my inmate population. I now do groups with an acute mental health facility and I received a lot of information I can pass onto the patients. Very grateful!"
— Anita S., Counselor
FREE Live Virtual Event

2-Day Intensive Anger Management Certification Training:
Mindfulness-Based Tools for Impulse Control, Reduced Emotional Reactivity and Long-Lasting Change

March 21–22 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit, certification, and certificate of completion are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.

  1. Analyze the neurobiology of anger and the brain regions involved in processing anger.
  2. Investigate behavioral and bodily effects of anger and its influence on cognition.
  3. Evaluate the clinical implications of the association between anger and substance abuse.
  4. Analyze how mindfulness techniques can be used to help clinicians engage reluctant and treatmentresistant clients.
  5. Employ mindfulness training and diaphragmatic breathing techniques that diminish the body’s fight-or-flight response.
  6. Practice mindfulness skills that effectively intervene in dysfunctional thoughts and judgmental beliefs.
  7. Investigate the relationship between anger types and problem behaviors in clients.
  8. Investigate how clinicians can frame anger problems in a humanistic and compassionate manner that leverages client rapport and client insight.
  9. Employ strategies to help clients leverage acceptance of others to diminish angry externalizations and displacement of frustration.
  10. Employ mindfulness strategies to decrease levels of impulsivity and aggressiveness in angry clients.
  11. Investigate the use of Yalom-style process-focused groups to reinforce skill acquisition and responsiveness in the treatment of anger and aggression.
  12. Investigate how clinicians can navigate politically and ideologically provocative client self-disclosures in therapy.
Outline
The Brain-Body View of Anger: Enhance Anger Management with a Neuroscience Perspective
  • Evolutionary psychology of anger
  • Anger systems in the brain and threat perception
  • Neurophysiology of anger v. fear
  • Limbic, PFC & TPJ
  • Fight-Flight-Freeze
  • Breathing and the survival brain
The Mind View of Anger: How Perfectionism and All-or-Nothing Thinking Keep Clients Stuck in Anger
  • Dualistic & all-or-nothing thinking
  • Attention tunneling/hyperfocus
  • Perfectionism and righteous anger
  • Righteousness as confusion/ambivalence reduction
Anger, Substance Abuse and Violence
  • Relationship between anger and addiction
  • Assessment of violence potential
  • Is domestic abuse an anger management problem?
  • Anger & self-harm
Anger Management as Fear Management: Teaching Clients to Distinguish Real Threats from Paper Tigers
  • Real fears
  • Symbolic fears
  • Courage of acceptance
  • Escape of action (“To act out is to run”)
  • An informal typology of anger - how anger style informs treatment approach
Motivate the Unwilling: 4 Steps to Greater Engagement with Angry and Avoidant Clients
  • Mood/affect stabilization
  • Relational stabilization
  • Impulse control
  • Damage control
Short-Term Anger Management Solutions: A 4-Session Approach to Improve Impulse Control and Self-Regulation
  • Session 1: Mindfulness-Based Impulse Control Training
  • Session 2: Choice Awareness Training & Pattern Interruption
  • Session 3: Symbolic Threat Inoculation
  • Session 4: Bottom-Up Self-Regulation
  • Facilitating homework compliance
  • Real life anger management practice
Long-Term Anger Management: Strategies and Techniques for Lasting Behavioral Change
  • Attributional retraining – help clients to not take things personally
  • Effort acceptance – exercises to stop feeling shortchanged
  • Learning from fear & rascal sages
  • Relativity training to overcome righteous anger
  • Neurobehavioral empathy training & mirroring to promote relational stability
  • Neuroendocrine time-out & social fasting
  • Assertiveness training – teach clients to set healthy boundaries
  • Techniques to communicate anger without aggression
  • Group work - strategies to reinforce skill acquisition
  • Eastern know-how of equanimity – from anger to compassion
  • Manage politically and ideologically provocative client self-disclosures in therapy
Research, Treatment Risks and Limitations

Speaker
David Nowell

Pavel Somov, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice with over 20 years of clinical experience working with anger management, shame, guilt, self-criticism, eating issues, and perfectionism. He has worked in a variety of clinical settings including running a drug and alcohol treatment program in a county jail.

Dr. Somov is on the advisory board for The Mindfulness Project (London, UK) and has conducted a variety of trainings for mental health professionals both domestically and internationally on applying mindfulness-based interventions to a variety of psychological issues.

His work has been discussed in a number of radio interviews and in print publications including Martha Stewart's Body + Soul Magazine and Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine. Dr. Somov is the author of Anger Management Jumpstart: A 4-Session Mindfulness Path to Compassion and Change (PESI Publishing, 2013) as well as a number of self-help books on perfectionism, overeating, and addiction.

Click here for information about Pavel Somov

Frequently Asked Questions

YES! The training is LIVE and you'll be able to ask questions of the presenters – though they may not get to all of them, they will try to answer the most relevant and frequent ones.

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If you register for the live summit and miss a session, you’ll have access to the recording for 14 days in your portal. Please note you would need to watch the presentations as they are presented live in order to receive live credit. Self-study credit is not available for the archive recordings of the live training sessions.

You can get unlimited access to the recordings + self-study CE hours for only $99.99 when you select the Recording Package add-on during registration. 

You’ll have access to the recordings for 14 days in your portal. Please note you would need to watch the presentations as they are presented live in order to receive live credit. Self-study credit is not available for the archive recordings of the live training sessions.

You can get unlimited access to the recordings + self-study CE hours for only $99.99 when you select the Recording Package add-on during registration. 

Yes! If you cannot attend any sessions live, you can purchase the recording package to earn self-study CE. Register and select the option to earn up to 12.5 self study CE hours.

Yes, you will have 14 days of archive access to the event recordings, and you’ll have unlimited access to session slides and handouts to add to your clinical toolbox and use with your clients.

Up to 12.5 CE hours, depending on your individual board. We've worked hard to make sure as many licensed mental health professionals as possible are covered by this amazing training program. Register for more information.

Yes! We’re confident you’ll find this learning experience to be all that’s promised and more than you expected. However, if you’re not completely satisfied, give us a call at 800-844-8260 and we will honor our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.
FREE Live Virtual Event

2-Day Intensive Anger Management Certification Training:
Mindfulness-Based Tools for Impulse Control, Reduced Emotional Reactivity and Long-Lasting Change

March 21–22 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central
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*CE credit, certification, and certificate of completion are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
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