Anger Management for Relationships and Marriage — Fix the Part That Is Yours, and Give the Relationship a Real Chance
Behavioral Concepts and Advancement is the personal-growth track of New Jersey Anger Management Group: private, one-on-one anger management for people who want it for themselves — for inner strength, for prevention, for advancement in a career, a marriage, a family, or a life that anger has been quietly running. You work directly with our executive director, an anger management clinician who is also a retired family and criminal law attorney, an entrepreneur, a divorced father who rebuilt, a native New Yorker and son of immigrants who came from nothing — not a one-dimensional therapist who will not speak straight. Custom lessons written for your life, one-on-one sessions seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., text access between, and a focus on the anger and on moving forward. For someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping: this page.
Anger Management for Relationships and Marriage — Quick Answer
Quick answer: Behavioral Concepts and Advancement is private, one-on-one anger management for people who choose it — for inner strength, prevention, and advancement in the parts of life anger has been costing them. After an assessment you choose 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or more customized lessons paired with one-on-one sessions, set after an assessment. Sessions are thirty-five to sixty-five minutes, one on one with our executive director, by Zoom or phone, seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern, with appointments outside those hours arranged when needed; we hold it to no more than two sessions a week so the teachings resonate, and he is available by text between sessions during normal hours. The approach is two-fold — custom lessons for what you are dealing with, and tools to manage the anger attached to it — with the focus on anger and moving forward, not on reliving the past. No insurance, no waiting to start, no judgment. Enrollment and completion documentation is available if you need it for work, a license, or a court. For someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping: text ENROLL to 201-205-3201.
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What you get — Behavioral Concepts and Advancement
FormatOne on one with the executive director, by Zoom or phone (in person in Jersey City by arrangement). Never a group.ProgramAssessment first, then 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or more customized lessons paired with one-on-one sessions, set after an assessment. Two-fold: custom lessons written for what you are dealing with, plus tools to manage the anger attached to it.Sessions35–65 minutes depending on topics, issues, program length, and spacing; no more than two one-on-ones a week so the teachings resonate.Availabilityseven days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern; appointments outside those hours by arrangement; no waiting to start; the director is available by text between sessions during normal hours.FocusAnger and moving forward — the past acknowledged and discussed, not dwelt on. Psychoeducational, not therapy.Payment and paperworkNo insurance; direct pay, flat by length. Enrollment and completion documentation available for work, licensing, or court, under either of our names.
Behavioral Concepts and Advancement is a program of New Jersey Anger Management Group. It is a private psychoeducational program and is not psychotherapy, medical or mental health treatment, or a batterers intervention program, and does not give legal advice. If you are in crisis or need clinical care, contact a licensed provider or emergency services.
Anger Management for Relationships and Marriage — Why This Program, Why Now
Couples work asks two people to change at once. Anger management for one of them asks the person who is ready. If the fights in your house follow a pattern — the same trigger, the same escalation, the same apology — and you are honest enough to see your half of it, a one-on-one program moves faster than anything you can do together, because it does not wait for your partner to be ready. It changes the only variable you control, and it changes it quickly.
Behavioral Concepts and Advancement is taught by a retired family-law attorney and mediator who spent fifteen years watching marriages end in courtrooms and who ended his own after seventeen years and learned, the hard way, what he would have done differently. He is not a therapist and does not pretend to be. He is a straight-talking guide who knows which arguments are about the dishes and which are about respect, and who will tell you the difference without judgment.
The program is two-fold: lessons customized to your relationship — the trigger that starts it, the words that end it, the silence afterward — and tools to manage the anger in the moment it rises. Sessions are one on one, thirty-five to sixty-five minutes, by Zoom or phone, seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., no more than two a week, with the director a text away between them. Choose 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or more lessons after the assessment. The focus is not your past; it is your next argument, and how it goes differently.
Not a one-dimensional therapist
The difference in this program is the person across the screen. Our executive director came to anger management through law — fifteen years as a family and criminal attorney in New Jersey, a former public defender, a mediator recognized in Best Lawyers in America — and through life: a business built from scratch, a divorce after a seventeen-year marriage, two children raised through it, an immigrant family that started with nothing in New York. That combination is why clients dealing with someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping say the sessions are the first time anyone spoke to them plainly about their anger and the life it was attached to. He acknowledges where you came from, he does not judge it, and he turns you toward where you are going.
The Two-Fold Approach: Custom Lessons for Your Life, Tools for Your Anger
Most programs teach anger management as if anger were the whole problem — and for someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping, it rarely is. It is usually the symptom that finally got loud enough to notice. So this program works on two levels at once: custom lessons that pertain to what you are dealing with — the situation, the relationship, the pressure the anger is riding on — and tools to manage the anger attached to it, which we discuss and practice in the one-on-one sessions. That is what ‘two-fold’ means here, and it is why clients say the change outlasted the program.
For someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping: sessions of thirty-five to sixty-five minutes, seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern, no more than two a week, text access between, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or more customized lessons paired with one-on-one sessions, set after an assessment. No insurance, no waiting to start.
Custom lessons — what you are dealing with
- Written by the director after your assessment, for your situation
- The marriage, the kids, the job, the divorce, the family you came from
- Worked through between sessions, on your schedule
- Grounded in REBT and CBT, written in plain English
Tools — the anger attached to it
- The interval between the trigger and the response
- Scripts for the moment you would otherwise escalate
- How to leave, how to reset, how to come back
- Practiced one on one until they are yours
The Benefits of Anger Management — When You Do It for Yourself
What the anger is usually attached to
The anger is the loudest thing; it is rarely the first. Part of every program is naming what it is riding on — and for someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping the lessons are written around exactly that.
Prevention Tools You Will Leave With
A sample of what the sessions build, adapted to your triggers and your life:
We do not dig too far into the past. That is a deliberate difference from therapy, and it is the reason this program moves quickly. Your history matters and it gets acknowledged and discussed; for someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping, some of it is directly relevant. But the work is forward-facing: the anger you have now, the situations it attaches to, the tools to handle them, and the perspective to see past the obstacle of this week. Psychoeducational, not psychotherapy. If clinical treatment is what you need, we will tell you.
From the Text to the First Session
- Text ENROLL. No forms, no intake queue, no waiting list.
- Assessment, then your plan: 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or more customized lessons paired with one-on-one sessions, set after an assessment.
- Lessons + sessions, seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern, thirty-five to sixty-five minutes each, never more than two a week.
- Text the director when something happens between sessions.
- Finish with tools you own — and paperwork, if you need it, for someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping.
Getting back to work, back to court, or back on track: the same program provides enrollment and completion documentation whenever it is needed — an enrollment letter the same day, progress reports, and a Certificate of Completion plus a Completion Letter from a retired attorney that employers, licensing boards, and courts accept. Available under either of our names. For someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping, nothing changes about the program; only the paperwork is added.
You Are Not Your Worst Moment
Anger makes people believe the last outburst is who they are. It is not; it is a pattern, and patterns change. For someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping, this program treats you as an adult with a habit to break and a life to advance — not a case, not a diagnosis, not a problem. No judgment, no shame, no theatrics.
Every Google Review We Have Ever Received: Five Stars
Read what clients say about working one on one with the director before you decide — the reviews are on Google, and they describe the same thing this page does.
“New Jersey Anger Management Group is the best. Mr. Santos is very knowledgeable about his job. These classes and sessions are one-on-one where he can find the root of the issue and address that. I learned so much in my time in his class — things that I will use in my daily life to handle any obstacle. Thank you NJAMG.”
Verified Google review · Google review · ★★★★★
“I had an excellent experience with the New Jersey Anger Management Group and my instructor. From the very beginning, the program was professional, structured, and genuinely helpful. The instructor created a supportive environment where I felt comfortable learning and growing. The sessions were very insightful and focused on practical tools such as understanding anger triggers. This program has given me tools that I will carry with me for the rest of my life.”
Verified Google review · Google review · ★★★★★
ALL 50 STATES
SINCE 2012
Started in Jersey City. Serving New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and Everywhere Else.
New Jersey Anger Management Group was founded in 2012 by Santo V. Artusa Jr., J.D., C.A.M.T. — a Rutgers Law graduate, former public defender, and family-law mediator named to Best Lawyers in America, who retired from practice to do this full time. Behavioral Concepts and Advancement is the track he built for people who come on their own — for someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping — the same one-on-one program courts in all fifty states have accepted, without the court. Clients in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California, Ohio, Idaho, and beyond work with him by Zoom and phone, seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern.
Manejo de la ira para su propio crecimiento — ayuda en español
Behavioral Concepts and Advancement es el programa privado de manejo de la ira para quienes lo eligen por sí mismos — para su fortaleza interior, prevención y avance en su matrimonio, su familia o su carrera. Trabaja uno a uno con nuestro director ejecutivo — abogado retirado de derecho de familia y penal, empresario, padre de dos hijos, hijo de inmigrantes — con lecciones personalizadas y sesiones por Zoom o teléfono los siete días de la semana de 8 a.m. a 8 p.m. Sin seguro, sin espera, sin juicios. Para Anger Management for Relationships and Marriage: envíe ENROLL por texto al 201-205-3201.
Questions People Ask Before They Text
Do I need a court order or a referral to enroll?
No. Behavioral Concepts and Advancement is built for people who choose anger management for themselves — for prevention, inner strength, and advancement. For someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping, you text ENROLL to 201-205-3201, hold an assessment this week, and start. If you also need documentation for work or a court, it is included.
Is this therapy?
No. This is a psychoeducational program — assessment, customized lessons grounded in REBT and CBT, tools, and one-on-one sessions — not psychotherapy or clinical treatment. We acknowledge and discuss the past, but we do not live there; the focus for someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping is anger and moving forward. If you need clinical treatment, we will tell you.
What if my anger is really about something else — stress, resentment, a divorce?
It usually is. For someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping, the program works on the anger first, because that is what is costing you today, and on what it is attached to, because that is what keeps refilling it. The director’s own experience with law, business, divorce, and fatherhood is what lets him see the second layer quickly and talk about it plainly.
Is there a waitlist?
No. For someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping, text ENROLL to 201-205-3201 and the assessment is scheduled this week — any day, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
What makes this different from a group class?
One guide instead of a room of strangers; lessons written for you instead of a curriculum for everyone; a retired lawyer and entrepreneur who speaks straight instead of a facilitator reading slides; and, for someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping, a program built around your life rather than a schedule built around a court.
How many sessions will I need?
After the assessment you choose 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or more customized lessons paired with one-on-one sessions, set after an assessment. Three or four is a focused tune-up for a specific pattern; eight to twelve or more is the full program for someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping when the anger is attached to a marriage, a career, or a major life change. The director will tell you plainly what he recommends.
Can this program be used for work, a license, or a court?
Yes. For someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping, the same program provides enrollment and completion documentation when you need it: an enrollment letter the same day, progress reports, and a Certificate of Completion with a Completion Letter written by the director, a retired attorney, in language employers, licensing boards, and courts accept — issued under Behavioral Concepts and Advancement or New Jersey Anger Management Group.
More From Behavioral Concepts and Advancement
Cost for someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping. One flat fee for the program length you choose after the assessment, everything included, quoted up front by text. No insurance. Payment plans on request; sliding scale when possible.
One Guide. Custom Lessons. Real Tools. No Judgment.
You have already paid for your anger in ways you can name. For someone whose anger is hurting a relationship worth keeping, the program is cheaper than the next one. Text ENROLL to 201-205-3201.
Also reachable at (929) 788-6382 · Enroll online · Se habla español
Behavioral Concepts and Advancement · New Jersey Anger Management Group · 97 Newkirk Street, 2nd Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07306 · (201) 205-3201 · njangermgt@pm.me · Founded 2012 · Serving all 50 states. Behavioral Concepts and Advancement is a program of New Jersey Anger Management Group. It is a private psychoeducational program and is not psychotherapy, medical or mental health treatment, or a batterers intervention program, and does not give legal advice. If you are in crisis or need clinical care, contact a licensed provider or emergency services.