About Me

Counselor. Educator. Creator. Frequent Flyer to Hell and Back.

I’m Bob Zima, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, author, podcaster, speaker, and creator of Healing YOUR Anger.

For more than 20 years, I have helped individuals and couples understand anger, resentment, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship conflict, broken trust, and the difficult work of rebuilding a life after everything goes sideways.

I hold a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. My professional experience includes leading community mental-health centers, providing psychiatric emergency assessments and hospital training, operating a private counseling practice, presenting workshops and keynote addresses, and teaching master’s-level counseling students as an adjunct professor.

But degrees and professional titles tell only part of my story.

A Frequent Flyer to Hell and Back

I don’t teach healing solely from a textbook.

My own travels have included addiction and recovery, bankruptcy and homelessness, infidelity and a marriage pushed near its breaking point, the deaths of two infant children, serious heart problems, and two open-heart surgeries.

I have screwed up, fallen apart, gotten back up, rebuilt, and learned a few things along the way.

That is why I call myself a Frequent Flyer to Hell and Back. I know what it is like to experience hurt, fear, disappointment, shame, grief, uncertainty, and the overwhelming temptation to respond in angry and destructive ways.

Healing is difficult. It can be messy, frustrating, frightening, and exhausting. But healing is possible—especially when we stop blaming everyone else, become honest about what is happening inside us, and start making healthier choices.

Why I Created Healing YOUR Anger

Too many people are told to “manage their anger” without ever learning what creates it.

Healing YOUR Anger takes a different approach.

I believe anger is a set of behaviors fueled by automatic emotions—primarily hurt and fear—and physical reactions. Those responses are driven by how we interpret what is happening around us.

An event occurs. We decide what it means. Our emotions and body respond. We select a behavior. That behavior creates an outcome.

When we understand that process, we gain the ability to interrupt it.

Healing YOUR Anger helps you examine your thoughts, beliefs, emotional reactions, physical responses, needs, behaviors, and outcomes. The goal is not to eliminate anger. The goal is to understand what drives your anger and develop healthier, more effective ways to respond.

Change the interpretation. Change the behavior. Change the outcome.

My Approach

No jargon. No fluff. No judgmental lectures.

I combine counseling theory, practical strategies, real-life experience, storytelling, humor, and candor to make complicated mental-health concepts understandable and useful.

Inside Healing YOUR Anger, you will find interactive lessons, practical exercises, the Anger Healing Map, the Skirmish Worksheet, videos, podcasts, graphics, and tools designed to help you:

• Understand what drives your anger
• Recognize the hurt and fear underneath it
• Examine the beliefs shaping your reactions
• Identify the needs you are attempting to satisfy
• Select healthier and more effective behaviors
• Improve communication and reduce conflict
• Strengthen relationships
• Create outcomes that better support your goals and values

You do not need to be perfect. You simply need to be honest, curious, and willing to do the work.

Welcome Aboard

Healing YOUR Anger is an invitation to chart a different course—one that moves you away from destructive anger behaviors and toward greater awareness, healthier choices, stronger relationships, and a more stable life.

The treasure isn’t perfection.

The treasure is your peace.

Are you ready to begin?

Join the Crew and preview Healing YOUR Anger today for FREE.