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
As a psychotherapist, I use a holistic approach that blends clinical research with Eastern wisdom. I have trained extensively for a decade with renowned Psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffery M. Schwartz in his Four Step Method, which combines Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with the Buddhist principle of Mindfulness. Although, the Four Steps was originally created to treat OCD, my recent collaboration in the...
*I am not currently accepting new clients. Sorry!* I am an experienced clinical psychologist who has spent 15 years developing my knowledge and skills for addressing problems that occur in families such as problematic parent-child dynamics. I am also well equipped to address internalizing disorders such as depression, anxiety, suicidality, and PTSD in children, teens, and adults. While I use...
Whether you suffer from depression, anxiety, pain, or even devastating illness or loss(es); it is our thought patterns, refusal to accept reality, and unhealthy habits that often magnify such troubles into catastrophes. By learning how to befriend yourself and work with your mind in constructive ways, you'll not only cope better, but can grow from such troubles, which are often teachers, or...
We all have the potential to be happy. Using a solution focused approach, my goal is to empower you to create the life you want. Working together with me, you will increase your self-awareness and become more mindful of your thoughts and behaviors. I will guide you in coping with distress and you will increase your ability to regulate your emotional responses. With my help you will become an...
I am a collaboratively oriented counselor. I believe that successful change is dependent on your enthusiastic participation in the process. I see myself as a sort of guide and someone who can offer alternative perspectives which may lead you to new ways of thinking about and acting on your circumstances. I believe that ultimately you contain the solutions to the things you bring to therapy. I w...
I specialize in working with children and adults at the different stages throughout their lives. I have experience working with adults navigating struggles of adulthood, relationships, and parenthood. Stages of life bring adjustments that can be challenging. Navigating those complexities is where I can help. I have worked with individuals and couples who struggle with fertility and adoption. I ...
My practice is focused on helping individuals understand and heal from the profound wounds caused by emotional or physical violence in close personal relationships. This includes adults who've experienced childhood abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment, as well as sexual assault, violence, and betrayal trauma. By conceptualizing complex forms of trauma from a feminist perspective, I investigate...
** NOW ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS AGES 6 TO ADULT** The world is changing-how are you coping? In the "new normal" it's hard to see what lies ahead. Depression and anxiety, stress, worries about the future are becoming a part of life. Your emotions take you for a roller coaster ride every day. Your memory is not what it should be. You notice that you are angry more often than usual and you are worrie...
As the Clinical Director at A Brighter Tomorrow Counseling, I desire to help individuals and families discover solutions for the challenges they face. Whether dealing with relationship problems, depression, anxiety or other mental health issues, your treatment will be individualized to help you work toward restoration of mental health, improved relationships and spiritual growth. Our therapists...
I believe that each one of us has it within ourselves to heal through our own personal strengths, and yet we spend time focusing on our limitations and they are all we can see. I am a strength based therapist who believes in client-centered therapy. You will have the opportunity to look at your belief systems and cognitive distortions to help you see your strengths, and to move forward in the...
A relationships expert focused on assisting individuals, couples and families to reconnect and experience relations that are sustainable, vibrant and engaged, while achieving their own definition of success. I work with individuals, families and couples who are stuck in patterns of interaction that don't seem to work by using a collaborative, evidence based, powerful and innovative style of...
Because I view each client as unique, I approach each case differently. I work from an integrative theoretical orientation and employ strategies from Cognitive Behavioral, Psychodynamics, Family Systems, and other theories according to the varying needs of each client. I have a general practice where I do a lot of individual therapy but I have also done extensive post-doctoral training in worki...
Welcome to my practice. I look forward to getting to know you and hearing about what's troubling you, while you get a sense of what it will be like working with me. After an assessment of 1 or 2 sessions, we will arrive at an initial understanding of your situation and the issues and/or symptoms you'd like to address. We'll look at treatment options and agree on a plan, which may include...
I am a clinical psychologist with an interest in servicing adolescents and adults who are struggling with anxiety and mood disorders. My training has focused on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder particularly as it manifests in difficulty with intrusive thoughts and compulsions in areas of contamination, religious scrupulosity, and sexuality. I additionally work with general and health-related...
Everyone experiences moments in life that feel overwhelming, stressful, or sad. Sometimes, these moments seem to happen with increasing frequency, or we can't seem to find our way out of painful or distressing patterns, despite our best intentions. If this sounds familiar, therapy might be a helpful step for you. I work primarily with adults who are struggling with issues related to mood, anxie...
