Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Understanding BPD and Finding a Path to Healing

At Winding Road Therapy Group, we know that living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can feel overwhelming. Intense emotions, fear of abandonment, relationship challenges, and difficulty trusting your own sense of self may leave you feeling stuck in cycles of pain, confusion, or shame. You are not alone, and there is a way forward.

What Is BPD?

Borderline Personality Disorder is a mental health condition that affects the way a person thinks about themselves and others. It often leads to difficulties with emotion regulation, self-image, and relationships. Common experiences include:

  • Feeling emotions more intensely and for longer periods than others

  • Struggling with sudden mood shifts or emotional outbursts

  • Fearing rejection or abandonment, even in stable relationships

  • Having a hard time knowing who you are or what you want

  • Engaging in impulsive or self-destructive behaviors as a way to cope

These patterns are often rooted in early experiences of trauma, invalidation, or disrupted attachment. BPD is not a character flaw; it is a survival response. And healing is absolutely possible.

How We Treat BPD at Winding Road

We offer a compassionate, evidence-based approach that supports both deep emotional healing and practical skills for daily life. Our work together honors your resilience and focuses on helping you reconnect with your sense of worth, clarity, and internal calm.

Our clinicians are trained in therapies shown to be effective for BPD, including:

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT helps you build skills in four key areas: mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It is especially helpful for managing intense emotions, reducing self-harm, and improving relationships.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS allows us to explore and heal the protective parts of you that developed in response to pain. By helping these parts feel seen and supported, we create space for your true Self to emerge and lead the way.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

For clients with trauma histories, EMDR can reduce the emotional charge of painful memories and break the cycles of reactivity that fuel shame, anxiety, or anger.

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)

For clients who feel stuck after trying other approaches, KAP may support emotional breakthroughs and a sense of connection to parts of yourself that have been buried under years of suffering. Our KAP model is therapist-led and trauma-informed.

What Healing Looks Like

You do not have to “fix” yourself; you are not broken. Healing from BPD involves learning how to slow down, listen inward, and offer compassion to the parts of you that feel afraid, angry, or alone. It means developing relationships that feel safe, consistent, and real. And it means discovering that you are worthy of love and belonging, not for what you do or how well you mask, but for who you are.

Every day is a winding road. We are here to walk it with you.

Ready to Start?

If you are curious about how therapy might help, we invite you to schedule a consultation. Whether you are newly diagnosed, exploring your identity, or navigating a crisis, there is space for you here.

Let’s take the next step together.