About Us

David J. Decker, M.A. St. Paul, Minnesota David Decker, M.A., is a licensed psychologist who is currently in private practice in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he provides domestic abuse, anger management, and general mental health services in individual, couple, family, and group therapy. His areas of expertise include anger regulation, men’s issues, depression, anxiety, stress management, shame and family of origin issues, domestic abuse, assertiveness, communication and couples issues, healthy relationships, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).

David is available for consultation, seminars, and workshops.

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Michael Obsatz, Ph.D. St. Paul, Minnesota Dr. Michael Obsatz received an Honorary Degree from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN at commencement on May 12, 2007 in honor of his retirement after 40 years of service to the college. His courses have included Institution of the Family, Human Sexuality, Male Socialization Issues and Violence, and Death and Dying. Dr. Obsatz earned his B.A. in Psychology from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Chicago.

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Our Work with Anger Resources

We have both worked with mental health issues since the early 1970’s. Anger. shame, and abuse issues have been a strong interest, and even a passion, of ours for much of that time. Since the 1970’s, we have counseled individuals, couples, families, and groups in both community and college settings. We have presented hundreds of workshops and seminars to both community groups and professional audiences in this immediate area and as far away as Hong Kong in China.

We have assisted both mental health agencies and grass roots organizations in developing their own domestic abuse and anger management programs and these ideas and strategies have been used all over the United States and in other parts of the world as well. In addition, the ideas and strategies in this website have been used by female colleagues for years in a variety of classes, workshops, and domestic abuse programs for survivors specifically geared for women.

Finally, we have written and published a number of books to accompany the client work that we have done and the workshops that we have presented and we have authored scores of articles for a variety of publications and for our website on anger, shame, and numerous other mental health topics.

Since the 1970’s, we have had the good fortune to touch the lives of thousands of people with the concepts presented here. We hope to touch thousands more with this website, first developed in 2000, which serves as the culmination of our study since we began working in the mental health field.