Borderline Personality Disorder is difficulty in relationships, intense fears of abandonment, mood instability such as anger and sadness, impulsivity, and thinking in terms of extremes. Thoughts surrounding relationships often cause the most harm, as people with BPD tend to have an over-idealized or extremely negative picture of the same relationship. Impulsiveness can lead to risk-taking. Some people with BPD can have suicidal thoughts or self-harm behaviors.
Available Treatment Options
Therapist interventions for BPD often involve challenging unhelpful thought patterns in terms of a person’s ideas about themselves and their relationships, such as in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Once challenged, therapy can then help alter these thought patterns to be more helpful and realistic.
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Borderline Personality
While I have extensive experience treating adults and adolescents of all ages, many patients I see in my practice are in their 20’s-30's. Often they have experienced significant trauma in their lives that has resulted in intense feelings of depression and anxiety. Often, there is disruption and disappointment in relationships. This work can be challenging in ways we cannot always predict, so it...
By the time most people seek help, they’ve been operating from a place of their own core wounding, hurting themselves and others in the process. All of our behaviors serve a purpose to meet our needs, even if they are harmful to others and ourselves. I work with clients who have experienced trauma around relationships, have attachment issues, codependency, anxiety, depression, and survivors of...
A time comes in everyone's life when we need to do some growth & healing work. Thankfully the ability to grow & heal is built into our human-nature, a nature that comes alive when we receive the support we need. Therapy is for receiving this support, and in a way that fits with you. Throughout my life, along with my broad training and experience as a therapist, I've experienced my own, and hav...
If you are ready to improve your life, then I am the one to lead you there. Having years of experience as both a client and a clinician, I am very familiar with the process of change and I am well equipped to make it happen. I've helped guide people through issues of simple depression all the way to complex PTSD. I have extensive experience dealing with criminality, all forms of abuse, addictio...
I once heard that finding a good therapist is like discovering your favorite flavor of ice cream. Counseling is not one size fits all. I focus primarily on the creation of a warm atmosphere to dissolve barriers to a joyful authentic life. In order to see results of therapy, I believe there must be a strong therapeutic relationship. I am a non judgmental advocate for my clients. I believe that...
I work with EDMR, Gief/Loss, Bipolar, Cluster B Personality Issues, Hypnosis, Complex Trauma, PTSD, DID, Attachment Issues, ODD/Conduct Disorder Issues, Depression, Juvenile Sex Offending and Victims, LGBTQ Community, EAP Referrals, Long and Short Term Therapy, Christian Counseling to those with this interest. I work with age groups from 7 years of age and up. Psycho-sexual Assessments ( sexual...
My goal is to provide solution focused and compassionate treatment. I draw upon my more than twenty years of experience to work with each client, to address those primary issues which brought one into treatment and to join with my clients on their path towards greater functioning and stability. I have a passion for helping my clients to address those behavioral patterns that interfere with heal...
I have over 10 years clinical experience in various settings, helping adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, gender identity, substance abuse, and personality disorders. I use a variety of treatment modalities and have training in suicide prevention, crisis intervention, individual, couples and group psychotherapy. My broad spectrum of practice allows me t...
I am a very seasoned therapist, wisdom through the learning and training and experiences I have created. I am trained in both evidenced therapies of EMDR I and II and Prolonged Exposure Therapy as well as Cognitive Processing for Insomnia. My early training is combining psychodynamic therapy and existential roots to look at the entire person and work with you from where you are and where you wo...
Successful therapy is the result of effective collaboration between client and therapist.Choosing the right therapist for you is a very personal decision and can seem like an overwhelming task so finding the right "fit" is so important. I value creating a strong, trusting relationship with my clients and want them to feel that they can be comfortable and open sharing their burdens in our sessio...
I work individuals and couples to help build better relationships and coping strategies for times of conflict and change. Having worked for several years with substance abuse groups along with anger management and family violence intervention, I have helped people of all ages to move beyond the negative self talk and low self esteem in order to be successful and thriving in their personal lives...
I have been a licensed psychotherapist for twenty years. As my first career working as an elementary school teacher, I have strengths working with children and adolescents. In addition, I specialize in issues of depression, anxiety, life transitions, PTSD and trauma with adults. I can be confidentially reached in Manchester at (802)362-2334, and in Bennington at (802)375-4650. "Talk is still th...
There is so much diversity in the world; everyone has different strengths. Mine is to help adults experience relief from suffering and find more peace, balance, direction and connection. To get there I rely on intuition and research, spirit and science. This reflects my own personality, a mix of optimism and skepticism. I am trained in and utilize various therapy acronyms including CBT, SFT and...
For clients who are high functioning and need assistance working through current circumstances or emotional struggles, I provide space within the professional treatment relationship to facilitate the development of inner stability which helps clients effectively recover from difficult emotional material. Whether recent or remote, trauma is something that may be addressed in treatment to help...
