Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment in Los Angeles

Our BPD Treatment Approach

Evidence-Based Therapies for BPD

The primary evidence-based treatment interventions for borderline personality disorder are different types of psychotherapy. Individual therapy interventions like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), especially DBT, are commonly utilized in mental health treatment for BPD. Evidence-based therapies like DBT and CBT can be effective treatment options to help reduce symptoms of BPD and improve functioning.

Listed below are some of the ways evidence-based treatment can support symptom reduction and manage behavioral challenges:

• CBT: A cognitive and behavioral therapy with a goal-oriented approach for practical change
  • Focuses on highlighting the connection between a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to change unhelpful patterns and build effective coping skills
  • Can include group and individual therapy sessions
    • Helps you break down and replace negative beliefs
    • Teaches you how to recognize negative thoughts and effectively cope with them
    • Decreases distorted thoughts about your sense of self and others
    • Helps reduce mood swings and anxiety
    • Decreases self-harming behavior and suicidal behavior
• DBT: A problem-solving, skill-based approach for mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness
  • Focuses on fostering mindfulness to pay attention to your emotions in the present
    • Can include group and individual therapy sessions
      • Helps you balance self-acceptance and changing self-destructive behaviors
      • Emotional regulation: building skills to manage intense emotions
      • Supports a decrease in self-destructive behaviors
      • Improves ability to manage distress
      • Rebuilds and improves interpersonal relationships
      • Increases understanding of interpersonal relationships
• Holistic modalities: Utilizes self-care activities and routines to reduce symptoms of BPD, such as mood swings, impulsivity, and irritability
  • A sleep routine
  • Eating nutritious foods on a consistent schedule
  • Regular physical activity and exercise
  • Building stress management strategies
  • Fostering interpersonal effectiveness for healthy interpersonal relationships

Individualized Care Plans

With borderline personality disorder treatment in Los Angeles, you have access to individualized treatment. Individualized treatment offers a wide range of treatment options to build a treatment plan tailored to your unique needs and preferences. Some of the benefits of an individualized treatment plan include:

• Increases your sense of self and improves your self-image
• Fosters healthy coping skills
• Supports stress management
• Deepens self-awareness and self-understanding
• Improves emotional regulation
• Helps you set healthier boundaries with family members and other loved ones
• Fosters better understanding and communication in your relationships
• Improves interpersonal relationships through interpersonal effectiveness

An individualized treatment plan offers a safe and supportive environment where you can engage in tools that empower resilience, self-love, and improved well-being to lead a fulfilling life.

Group and Family Therapy

Collaborative psychotherapy, modalities, and interventions like group and family therapy are invaluable companions to BPD treatment. In particular, group and family therapy offer support tools to address the impact of BPD on interpersonal relationships. Symptoms of borderline personality disorder include intense emotions and self-destructive behaviors that contribute to unstable relationships. Thus, group and family therapy offer a safe, non-judgmental, and supportive space for you and your loved ones to work with providers to heal individually and as a family.

Group therapy is often used in conjunction with individual therapy in borderline personality disorder treatment to foster interpersonal effectiveness and improve emotional regulation. The interpersonal effectiveness aspect of group therapy supports the development of communication skills, setting boundaries, and learning from the experiences of your peers. Additionally, the emotional regulation piece encourages self-awareness, connection through shared experiences, and decreasing the impact of intense emotions.

Similarly, to group therapy, family therapy can also be an effective component of BPD treatment to support interpersonal effectiveness with family members and other loved ones. At the core of family therapy is a commitment to fostering connection, rebuilding trust, and empowering each family member to build healthier relationship dynamics. Some of the benefits of family therapy include:

• A greater understanding of each other to reduce miscommunication and conflict
• Improve communication skills for healthier communication patterns
• Supports setting healthier boundaries
• Better educate you and your loved ones about BPD
  • Increases understanding of symptoms
  • The challenges of BPD
  • How treatment works
  • Addresses the impact of interpersonal relationships
• Provides practical and emotional support
  • Teaches healthy coping skills to family members
  • Increases stress management skills
  • Reduces the burden of frustration and helplessness that caregivers experience
• Supports a reduction in the symptoms of BPD
  • Improves emotional regulation skills
  • Decreases self-harming behavior and suicidal behavior
• Strengthens the bond between family members and loved ones

Group and family therapy offer practical tools for coping strategies and foster a sense of community through the intimacy of sharing, learning, and supporting each other.