Borderline Personality Disorder: Finding Stability, Connection, and Meaning
Your emotional depth contains both challenges and strengths.
What BPD Looks Like
Borderline Personality Disorder creates an emotional experience that feels like living without an emotional skin. This intensity gives you a depth of feeling that others may never understand – with proper support, these same intense emotions can become a source of strength, creativity, and profound empathy.
Your relationships might swing between intense closeness and painful distance as fear of abandonment battles with your genuine desire for connection. With the right tools, these relationship patterns can stabilize.
Emotions arrive quickly and powerfully. Where others might feel sad, you feel devastated. Where others feel annoyed, you feel rage. Yet this sensitivity, once regulated, allows for richness of experience many never know.
Your sense of self may shift depending on circumstances, making it hard to know who you truly are beneath these changes. As treatment progresses, a more stable sense of identity emerges, built on your authentic values and strengths.
While BPD presents genuine challenges, recovery is absolutely possible. Many people who once met full criteria for BPD go on to lead fulfilling lives with meaningful relationships, emotional stability, and a strong sense of self.
BPD Treatment Approach
I approach BPD by focusing on emotion regulation – your relationship with the intensity of your feelings. This framework sees your experiences as understandable responses rather than viewing you as fundamentally flawed.
As an expert in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, I provide concrete skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. Having previously run Spanish DBT programs for LA County, I’ve seen how these tools transform lives affected by emotional intensity.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and modify thought patterns that fuel emotional reactivity. For trauma processing – often essential in BPD treatment – my certification in Prolonged Exposure therapy offers pathways to healing past wounds safely.
Throughout our work, we maintain a focus on understanding root causes – asking “how did we get here?” – while building practical skills for everyday life.
Online BPD Therapy in Minnesota & California
Through secure virtual sessions, I provide specialized BPD treatment for clients throughout Minnesota and California. My approach cuts through stigma and misunderstanding to see the person beneath the diagnosis.
My bilingual practice offers these services in both English and Spanish, recognizing that emotional struggles are universal but cultural contexts shape how we experience and express them.
Together, we’ll work toward a future where you can maintain stable relationships, regulate emotional intensity, and discover the unique strengths that come with your emotional depth and sensitivity.
