Rich Pfeiffer

Dr. Pfeiffer has over 20 years anger management experience and is an internationally recognized expert in the field of anger management. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, an Integral Psychotherapist, and a nationally Certified Anger Management Specialist-V, he is serving as the President of the National Anger Management Association (NAMA). His psychological / theological training form the foundation for his expertise in helping people work through their core conflicts. He is also a Certified Pastoral Psychotherapist having graduated from the Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute (NYC). He is a Fellow of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC), and a Distinguished Diplomate of the National Anger Management Association (NAMA). He is the author of eight Real Solution Workbooks including for Anger Management, as well as the bestselling Creating Real Relationships.

Dr. Pfeiffer is dedicated to an integral approach to personal growth and relationships. An integral approach to personal growth and relationships suggests that there are three particularly important elements of human consciousness: states, stages, and shadow. States of consciousness include the normal states of waking, dreaming, and sleeping, and also span the spectrum of spiritual experiences, from gross, to subtle, to causal, to nondual. What all states share is that they are temporary, and for the most part can be accessed, through, meditation, contemplative prayer, mind machines, binaural brainwave entrainment, (or simply by chance), in just about any order. Stages of consciousness range from egocentric, to ethnocentric, to worldcentric, to kosmocentric, to pneumocentric, to energocentric, and will affect how one interprets and understands various states. Stages are permanent acquisitions of the psyche, they unfold in a developmental order, and the sequence cannot be bypasses. The shadow elements of consciousness are those first-person impulses that, for whatever reason, have not been owned by an individual, and therefore appear in consciousness as “not self” (“I’m not angry, but my boss sure is.")