'My brother died, so I smashed up his TV'

Among them is Ceri Crannis, who booked sessions for her family after her daughter was stillborn.

She said the experience provided something she had struggled to find elsewhere.

"You don't get that release in therapy when you're talking," she said.

"There are some things that are just so deeply hidden that it comes out here, where loud music, smashing, breaking really does just hit the spot where nothing else has managed to do that before."

Ceri believes rage rooms can offer women a rare opportunity to express emotions that are often suppressed.

"Social norms are geared up that women are well behaved, they don't swear, you don't break anything."