Personality Disorders

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What Are Personality Disorders?

Personality disorders involve long-standing patterns of thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and ways of relating that can feel inflexible, overwhelming, or painful. These patterns often begin in early life as ways of adapting to difficult or unsafe environments.

Some common types include:

  • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) – Intense emotions, fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, impulsivity, chronic feelings of emptiness, or self-harming behaviors

  • Avoidant Personality Disorder – Deep fear of rejection, social inhibition, and feelings of inadequacy

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) – Preoccupation with order, perfection, and control that interferes with flexibility and connection

  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) – Deep sensitivity to criticism, struggles with empathy, and patterns of self-importance that may mask low self-worth

  • Dependent, Paranoid, Schizoid, and other types – Each with unique traits that affect identity, relationships, and functioning

It’s important to remember that a diagnosis is not a definition. It’s a starting point for understanding yourself and making change.

How Therapy Can Help

Therapy for personality disorders requires more than just coping tools — it requires a safe, stable relationship where you can gradually experience trust, repair, and emotional clarity. We work from a place of respect, patience, and hope.

Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)

Mentalization is the ability to understand what’s going on in your own mind and in the minds of others. When this capacity is disrupted, relationships can feel chaotic, threatening, or confusing. MBT helps you strengthen your ability to reflect on emotions and intentions — both your own and others’ — so you can respond with more clarity, flexibility, and confidence.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT was developed specifically to support people with borderline personality disorder and is effective for many emotional regulation challenges. DBT combines acceptance and change, teaching skills for managing overwhelming emotions, reducing impulsive behaviors, tolerating distress, and improving communication in relationships.

Relational Psychotherapy

Many personality disorders develop in response to relational trauma — being misunderstood, emotionally neglected, or harmed by others. Relational therapy focuses on the healing power of the therapeutic relationship itself. You get to experience a different kind of connection, one rooted in empathy, attunement, and honesty, which can gradually shift how you relate to others and to yourself.

Transference-Based Therapy

Transference-based therapy is a deeper psychodynamic approach that focuses on how the relationship with your therapist reflects your patterns with others. By exploring these dynamics in real time, you begin to make sense of how your mind organizes experience, how emotional wounds show up in the present, and how those patterns can change over time.

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