Personality Disorders

It can be difficult when diagnosed with a personality disorder to know where to turn. I have worked with numerous clients to understand their diagnosis and to help them learn to connect with their environment.

Struggling with chronic emotion dysregulation and distress can feel isolating and demoralizing. With DBT I help clients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder or Borderline traits build skills to soothe emotional distress, regulate and focus the mind, and build a true life worth living. I have extensive training in DBT and its applications, and have offered DBT in all levels of care and settings.

Feeling like your emotions are all over the place? Feeling empty, insecure, and reactive? Do you find yourself engaging in harmful, impulsive behaviors when feeling rejected or abandoned? Having difficulty maintaining stable relationships? Whether this is your experience or the experience of someone you love, therapy can genuinely make a difference, and I'm here to help you!

I am formally trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) through Behavioral Tech - Marsha Linehan's training foundation. I have both residential and outpatient experience treating symptoms common in personality disorders such as suicidality, self-harm, and interpersonal struggles.

You’ve been struggling with overwhelming emotion, at times hopeless that you will ever feel grounded. Emotions hit you like unrelenting ocean waves, and you’re being tossed and thrown around trying to get above water for some air. With comprehensive DBT and trauma focused therapy, I can help you navigate overwhelming emotion so you can feel safe and grounded, resolve conflict in relationships so you can feel connected and secure, and connect to yourself so you can feel powerful & purposeful.

At their root, I view any personality disorder as behaviors that worked for us at one time but don’t work anymore. Employing a combination of methods, including Functional Analytic Psychotherapy and Emotion-Focused Therapy, I enjoy helping others recognize their inherent value.

I'm a certified DBT therapist and have 15 years of experience providing DBT, which is the treatment of choice for borderline personality disorder.

I specialize in helping identify patterns of coping and behavior that may no longer serve you well. Through compassionate curiosity, I can help you find healthier, happier ways of relating to yourself and others.

Over the last two years, I've worked with clients with borderline personality disorder exploring ways in which they can feel more confident about their relationships, manage self-harm behaviors, and emotionally regulate. I incorporate dialectical behavioral therapy which is the front-line for BPD.

I specialize in treating individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) using the gold standard treatment for BPD: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). As my clinical practice focuses on treating the insomnia, nightmares, and related sleep disruption that is so common in BPD, I integrate various DBT skills during our sleep-focused treatment.

My specialty is working with individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder utilizing DBT. I have been practicing DBT and working with individuals with BPD since 2013 and have completed multiple trainings, certifications and continuing education in this area of therapy to maintain the highest degree of expertise and training.

I am trained to work with the entire spectrum of personality disorders. My practice utilizes evidenced based treatments to treat and manage personality traits that get in the way of living a fulfilling life including DBT, Radically Open DBT, and Mentalization based treatment. My approach tend to be honest, down to earth, and direct.

I have extensive experience and knowledge specifically with borderline personality disorder, dependent personality disorder, and avoidant personality disorder.

I help you understand and navigate relationships affected by personality issues. By educating you about the dynamics of personality traits and disorders, we can identify and break cycles of behavior, establish and maintain your boundaries, and use therapeutic techniques to manage interactions. This empowers you to foster respect and health in your relationships, even when dealing with challenging personality traits in others.

Dialectical behavior therapy is considered the best treatment for individuals who have been diagnosed with personality disorders. I am well trained in DBT and use it with all of my clients. I also am very knowledgeable about highly emotional people and trauma - and how both of these factors are often present with individuals with personality disorders.

Intensively trained Dialectical Behavioral Therapy counselor. DBT has been shown to help with Anxious-Depression.

Managing personality disorders can be really overwhelming. It is overwhelming for the individual as well as family and loved ones. I assist clients in managing personality disorders, primarily borderline personality disorder (BPD), through an intervention known as DBT, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. We work together and learn skills like mindfulness, emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance.

Experiencing chronic emotional distress and dysregulation can leave us feeling isolated and alone, and like we can't get connected to ourselves. I have worked extensively with people diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and Borderline Traits for years with empathic validation and effective Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Many of my clients utilize DBT skills to soothe distress, regulate emotions, and truly build a life that's worth living.

I started my career as a Master's level Social Worker receiving direct supervision in an intensive outpatient program that served primarily those diagnosed with personality disorders and chronic suicidality. I received supervision twice per week and engaged in outside studies on my own regarding personality disorders.