Borderline Personality Disorder therapists in Gulf Breeze, Florida FL
Borderline Personality Disorder
Dr. Dana C. Avey
Marriage and Family Therapist, MS, MA, DBH, LMFT, BC-TMH, ADS
Borderline Personality Disorder can be best described as an emotional intensity disorder. You feel more, feel it longer, and to more extreme than those around you. You're often left feeling empty and abandoned and experience instability in your relationships. There are ways to combat this and have healthy, thriving interpersonal relationships. We can work together to achieve this. If you are a loved one of someone diagnosed with BPD or someone you suspect has BPD, I can also be of help.
15 Years Experience
Borderline Personality Disorder
Philip Cooke
Psychologist, PhD
For people with a borderline personality structure, emotions can feel overwhelming and confusing and relationships intense and frustrating. making it hard to find relief. This experience can be compounded by stigma experienced from the label of "borderline personality disorder" and ineffectual treatments that fail to address the issues causing those distressing symptoms in the first place.
I approach the treatment of borderline personality from a psychodynamic perspective. I incorporate the best evidence available for improving emotion regulation and relationship stability and satisfaction. We work together to develop a trusting working relationship that feels safe enough to explore the psychological causes of your symptoms. As you do the hard work of inner exploration with me, you’ll discover new ways to express your feelings and get your needs met, leading to a more manageable life.
10 Years Experience
Borderline Personality Disorder
Utah Center for Evidence Based Treatment
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is one of the most effective treatments for emotion regulation difficulties. Our goal is to help our clients find a life worth living.
It has been used with both adolescents and adults for the treatment of self-injury, suicidality, personality disorders, substance use, eating disorders, and several other psychological problems.
Our DBT team has completed the Behavioral Tech Official DBT Intensive Training. Further, DBT therapists make a commitment to ongoing education in DBT, other evidence-based treatments, suicide prevention, integrating trauma-based approaches with DBT, and ethics.
We are one of the few local sites that offers the full DBT program, which includes individual therapy (once per week), skills group training (once per week), telephone coaching (as needed), and therapist collaborative consultation.
DBT is ideal for clients with one or more of these emotional experiences:
• Painful emotions from which a person feels there is no escape
• A chronic sense of "feeling nothing"
• Quickly shifting from one emotion to another
• Feeling like emotions are overwhelming, confusing, or controlling your life
• Having problems with anger, anxiety, and depression
In addition, DBT addresses the following difficulties:
• Difficulties in interpersonal relationships
• Living with a sense of emptiness or feeling like you are confused about who you are
• Impulsive behavior, suicide attempts, or self-injury
• Confused or fearful thinking
• Coping with distress through self-harm, eating, substance use, risky sexual behaviors, or avoiding everything
11 Years Experience
Borderline Personality Disorder
Kristin Jones
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, DHSc, LMHC
Borderline Personality Disorder is a disorder that tends to present as difficulties in multiple areas such as intense emotions, impulsive behavior, intense and dysfunctional relationships, difficulty with sense of self, problematic or destructive behaviors, and more. I am intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which is an evidence based approach for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. I help clients to understand their disorder, learn DBT Skills to be able to be better able to handle challenges emotionally and interpersonally, and help clients to stop using destructive ways of coping.
I also have created an online DBT Skills Program called Jones Mindful Living. This program provides useful skills for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. Subscribers get access to weekly virtual DBT Skills classes, a supportive community, on demand DBT Skills platform, and more. Learn practical skills for creating greater emotional balance. Learn more at www.jonesmindfulliving.com. Affordable program at $19/month and $159/year USD.
16 Years Experience
Borderline Personality Disorder
Jerry Ramsden
Counselor/Therapist, (Dip.Couns)
I’m a psychotherapist, with extensive experience and knowledge of working with BPD, EUPD, and emotional intensity disorders.
20 Years Experience