BPD Treatments

DBT-Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Individual and group therapy to help you learn skills to help cope with difficult emotions. It is an evidence-based therapy, and focuses on providing therapeutic skills in four areas: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. It is the gold standard psychological treatment for BPD.

CBT-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Aims to help you understand how your thoughts and beliefs might affect your feelings and behaviors.

MBT-Mentalization-Based Therapy

Aims to help you recognize and understand your and other people’s mental states, and to examine your thoughts about yourself and others.

Schema-Focused Therapy

Has shown to help change negative patterns in which people have lived with for a long time, focuses on identifying and changing specific ways of thinking.

STEPPS-Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving

The goal is to destigmatize the disorder by helping people understand that BPD stems from a certain biological sensitivity or disposition that meets with certain environmental factors, main idea is that people with BPD have difficulty in regulating their emotions and behaviors, but they can learn skills to do so.

CAT-Cognitive Analytic Therapy (possible treatment for BPD)

You are asked to review your childhood and look at how you have learnt to cope with different situations, you work toward changing the way you view situations and how you respond to them.

ACT-Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (possible treatment for BPD)

Based on mindfulness, you are encouraged to accept negative thoughts and emotions and to think of them as passing through, and not defining you.

Group Therapy (possible treatment for BPD)

Group of people with the same types of issues talking under the guidance of a therapist.

Interpersonal Therapy (possible treatment for BPD)

Asks you to think about and discuss your relationship with other people and how they affect your moods and emotions.

Mindfulness (possible treatment for BPD)

Focuses on the present moment rather than worrying about past or future events.

Motivational Interviewing (possible treatment for BPD)

A way of encouraging you to make changes in your life, without being judgemental or telling you what to do.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (possible treatment for BPD)

Can help you see your behavior patterns, defenses, and inner struggles. The idea is that once your inner struggles are brought to light, your behaviors and feelings will improve.

Supportive Psychotherapy (possible treatment for BPD)

Conversations-style therapy that aims to make you feel comfortable and less anxious, while helping you to come up with practical ways to cope with stressful situations.

Exposure Therapy (possible treatment for BPD)

A psychological treatment that was developed to help people confront their fears, psychologists create a safe environment in which to “expose” individuals to the things they fear and avoid. The exposure to the feared situations in a safe environment helps reduce fear and decrease avoidance.