Personality Disorder
What is this service?
This is long-term, structured psychotherapy for people whose patterns, in relationships, in self-image, in impulse and emotion, are consistent with the personality disorders described in the DSM-5, most often within Cluster B: borderline, narcissistic, antisocial, and histrionic patterning. Support extends to the partners and family members living alongside the diagnosis. This is work many practices refer elsewhere. Here, it is simply the work.
How can this help you?
If you carry one of these diagnoses, or suspect you might, you have probably already encountered the quiet rejection built into the system: the therapists who stopped returning calls, the term "difficult client," the sense that help has conditions you keep failing. This practice starts from a different position: the patterns are not who you are, they are what you learned, and what was learned can be worked with.
The work is honest and structured. It builds emotional regulation that holds under real pressure, relationships that stop burning down, and a self-image that doesn't swing with the last interaction. Progress is not fast, and no one here will pretend it is. It is real, and it compounds.
About diagnosis
Registered Psychotherapists do not diagnose personality disorders; formal diagnosis comes from a psychologist or physician. You do not need a diagnosis to begin here. The work addresses the patterns themselves, whatever they end up being called, and where formal assessment would help, we support a referral and continue the therapy alongside it.
Challenges covered
These patterns often get mistaken for personality itself. They are treatable all the same.
- Emotional intensity and rapid swings
- Unstable or explosive relationships
- Fear of abandonment
- Impulsivity that causes damage
- Rage that arrives faster than thought
- Chronic emptiness
- A self-image that shifts by the day
- Conflict cycles at work and in family
- The exhaustion of partners and family members
