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
I view counseling as a holistic and individual developmental process. Each individual that enters my office brings character and strengths as well as stressors and challenges. To me, it is important that together we build a trusting relationship that allows you to feel heard and validated. Having worked in both clinical and non-clinical settings, I have worked with a multitude of clients and ha...
I will help you resolve problems regarding your relationships, anxiety, depression, anger and addiction. I have twenty years of counseling experience and enjoy working with adults and adolescents. My clients describe me as warm, but honest. I will help you find sensitive solutions to life's toughest problems. Relationship counseling is my primary specialty. Whether your relationship just needs ...
I practice individualized, solution focused therapy using an eclectic array of techniques to assist the person in regaining and maintaining an optimum level of functioning. My areas of expertise are in treating people with depression, anxiety, mood disorders, relationship issues, life transitions, and substance abuse issues. I am versed in divorce mediation. In addition, I am knowledgeable...
Counseling offers an opportunity to explore areas of life that can bring you more personal satisfaction and confidence. I can help you sort through personal difficulties as well as the parts of your life that are going well. Recognizing the strengths you already possess is an important part of the process. Your strengths are nurtured to become the tools for change, as my aim is to add clarity t...
My main areas of practice include: alcohol and drug addiction, relational conflict, anxiety, depression, grief/loss, trauma and PTSD. I work with a client centered, interpersonal approach to confidentially support and respond to the individual uniqueness of each client. I focus on creating open and direct dialogue using an element of humor to create relational safety.The level of ongoing anxiet...
NOT CURRENTLY TAKING NEW CLIENTS. I've been at this a while and I can help you. I like to get to the core concerns and help you fix what isn't working. I work with people who are motivated to make changes, not passively "try" therapy. I am compassionate by nature and my clients appreciate my straight-forward and down-to-earth style. I work with severe cases of depression, irritability, worry,...
I love my work and feel incredibly fortunate to have formed so many meaningful therapeutic relationships. It is a privilege to travel with clients as they emerge from suffering and utilize the strengths they have found and the skills they have learned to achieve balance and ultimately, their life goals. The relationship between therapist and client is a real, equalitarian relationship built on...
I take a client centered, strength based approach when working with people. I can help you identify and express your emotions in a healthy way, build self esteem, develop coping skills and learn how to apply them in you or your child's life. I help people of all ages gain the tools that they need to move forward in their lives. I am an Art Therapist and licensed mental health counselor with ove...
Currently offering telehealth sessions only. Weekly RODBT groups are available Mondays 9-10:30am, Mondays 12-1:30pm, Tuesdays 9-10:30am, and Thursdays 9:30-11am. I am intensively trained in Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RODBT) and offer both group and individual RODBT sessions. I am also available to work with couples utilizing Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Radically Open DBT i...
As a clinician who specializes in helping clients with relational issues, I believe that when we experience communication challenges and conflict with people we care about most (partners, children, parents, siblings, friends, etc.), our individual quality of life suffers. It is hard to be happy when we find ourselves in relationships that are toxic, unequal/non-reciprocal, or strained. I believ...
How can we make deeper changes when we are trying to manage unusual pain, or just handle our ordinary suffering? When we feel safe and accepted as we are, we can challenge ourselves to grow, and to encounter others in an authentic way. I aim to create, with you, a safe place where we get to know your habitual patterns of behaving and relating, and explore less familiar sides of you that may off...
Many people hesitate calling a counselor. I'd like to offer you an inviting, respectful and reflective place to discuss your life issues. Since counseling is a personal process, we'll work together to understand your concerns and seek healthy changes. My style is relational and draws from many different therapeutic strategies and theories, depending on the clients needs. I enjoy working with...
Through an honest, here and now approach I strive to create a genuine, respectful, trust-filled relationship that promotes openness and healing.I see therapy as a journey, and my role is to help guide and encourage individuals and families to work through their challenges and bring happiness and resolution into their lives Treatment of adjustment to life changes, conflictual relationships,...
The complexities of human nature is something that many of us grapple with. Therapy, although seemingly scary, intimidating and overwhelming at first, can lead to change, growth and a high degree of satisfaction when an individual is willing to look at themselves in a new light. I believe in treatment that is collaborative which encompasses a conversational dynamic. I provide individual, family...
My therapeutic work focuses on helping individuals understand and work through life patterns that have, or continue to have, frustrating or disappointing outcomes. I provide help for a wide range of challenges to include anxiety, depression, abuse and other trauma, shame and self-esteem, stage of life transitions, and relationship difficulties. The invaluable work of moving through these...
