I am thrilled to have Patrice Douglas on the podcast. She is a stigma fighter who is dedicated in educating minority communities on mental health topics. In this episode we talk about minority mental health specifically anger management. Patrice has so much knowledge in this subject!!! I am so excited for you all to listen.
Patrice Douglas is a licensed marriage & family therapist in California and Texas. She is also a certified anger management specialist and parent child interaction therapist. She specializes in anger management, men’s issues, anxiety, depression, and minority issues.
In this episode we cover:
- Patrice’s journey getting into the anger management field.
- Anger management Stigma
- Who goes to anger management & what the levels of anger management are there?
- Group therapy versus Individual Therapy.
- How cultural differences can change how she approaches anger management with her clients.
- Anger management materials often are not tailored to different cultures.
- Why do Black men not seek assistance for anger management.
- Millennial Black men are starting to change the narrative.
- How anger affects us physically and emotionally.
- Anger is an alert that something is wrong; our fight or flight response.
- Getting angry over and over can cause headaches and other physical problems.
- It takes 30 seconds to get into an anger state and up to 30 minutes to get out of it.
- Some communities are simply passionate rather than being seen as angry.
- Techniques on how to manager anger
- One coping technique is to take the power out of words that cause anger in us.
- Another technique is learning how to walk away.
- How to come to a self-understanding of what angers you.
- How to de-escalate your anger.
- Importance and benefits of culturally competent counselors.