I write to draw the attention of professionals in the Yorkshire area to the invaluable service I have been receiving from an organisation called S.T.O.P.

I wish to recommend them to other solicitors who may be experiencing anger management issues. S.T.O.P is an anger management counselling and support agency for those people who behave abusively (or violently) towards their partner or towards anyone else.

The course teaches you to realise that such behaviour is a choice we actually make, no matter how far you feel you have been provoked or pushed.

The course encourages each person to talk about what abusive situations they have found themselves in during the previous week, how they reacted, and how they could have dealt better with their anger. The people in the group are from diverse walks of life and there is very much a sense of openness and camaraderie. There are on average eight to 12 people in the group.

S.T.O.P is based in Leeds city centre but attracts people from a wider area, including Sheffield and Harrogate. You attend one session a week, in my case a Thursday evening between 7.30pm and 9.30pm. It is recommended that you attend for at least 12 months to get maximum benefit from the course. The sessions are confidential.

Kathy Grogan, director of S.T.O.P, can be contacted at Suite 14 Munro House Duke Street Leeds LS9 8AG, tel. 0113 244 6007 email: kathygrogan@stoponline.org, web: www.stoponline.org. At present S.T.O.P is in a dire financial situation. Help with raising further funds or donations would be welcomed.

Solicitor, name and address supplied