Michael Hayden MSW, LACD, and CEAP founded Bay State Anger Management in 1995.

Mr. Hayden has over 25 years of experience in the counseling field and law enforcement fields. He has seen first hand the damage that out of control response to anger can cause. Mr. Hayden also knows that anger is a normal and much needed emotion. He knows that it is the way people approach a situation that has a lot to do with how that situation will turn out.

Mr. Hayden has been trained in several different models of anger management over the years. However, in April of 2000 he was introduced to the New Hope Method of Anger Management. This was a method founded by Don and Dolly Johnson of West Palm Beach, Florida.

Since being trained in the New Hope Method, Mr. Hayden has been using it exclusively and with great success. In his opinion, the New Hope Method is far superior to any other method he has used to date.