Online Borderline Personality Disorder therapists in Vancouver, British Columbia BC, Canada CA
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BPD
Rachelle Tersigni
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
I work with individuals who experience intense emotions, relational instability, or identity confusion often associated with BPD. Therapy focuses on nervous system regulation, self-understanding, and building safer internal and relational stability.
3 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
BPD
Kendra Shaw
Registered Social Worker, MSW
I offer a non-judgmental space for individuals with borderline personality disorder to manage intense emotions and build healthier relationships. My training in evidence-based therapies allows me to guide you toward practical skills for emotional balance and personal growth. Healing and change are always possible.
8 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC
BPD
Taylor Cox
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
I offer compassionate, evidence-based support for individuals with BPD, focusing on emotional regulation, improving relationships, and fostering self-acceptance. Using approaches like DBT, we work together to build skills for greater stability and resilience
2 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC
BPD
Sarah Bickle
Registered Psychotherapist, MPsy., R.P.
Living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can feel disorienting. If you're struggling with intense emotions, relationship difficulties, or self-image issues, therapy can provide the tools to create lasting change. My trauma-informed approach integrates techniques like DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) to help you manage emotions, develop healthier coping mechanisms, and rebuild trust in yourself. Together, we can explore the origins of your experiences and work to reshape patterns of behaviour to promote healing and growth.
In our work together, I prioritize creating a safe, non-judgmental space where you can express yourself freely—without fear of criticism or rejection. I believe in the importance of being able to explore your emotions and thoughts openly, while working collaboratively to understand and connect the different parts of yourself. This process is all about building self-trust and fostering a sense of acceptance, so you can feel safe within yourself. Our work together focuses on helping you navigate emotional intensity, strengthening your sense of self, and creating healthier, more balanced relationships.
6 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
BPD
Ajay Sahota
Counsellor/Therapist, MA, RCC (Registered Clinical Counsellor)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a condition where you have challenges controlling emotions. You feel emotions more intensely and for longer than the average person.
Strong emotions (guilt, shame, anxiety, etc.) can be very painful and you may become angry easily. It is often difficult to feel positive emotions, like happiness and it can feel impossible to control your emotions. Relationships with your family and friends are affected by these emotions, and feelings of loneliness and isolation are a result.
When emotions run your life, you can experience extra challenges, such as:
Overreacting
Mood swings
Frequent crises
Suicidal thoughts and destructive behaviour
Impulsiveness
Substance misuse
Relationship problems
Fear of abandonment
Are these challenges familiar? Have you done a counselling program in the past to address these issues but would like to continue counselling?
The good news is that I have been providing counselling to individuals, and their partners/family members, who struggle with BPD and other challenges since 2015. I have experience helping people learn new skills and to change behaviours and take control of their lives.
Counselling can help you understand BPD and provide you with emotional support, skills and training to manage your emotions and improve your relationships with loved ones.
11 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC
BPD
Amanda Spallacci
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
I offer support for individuals with BPD, focusing on building emotional regulation, improving interpersonal relationships, and fostering self-acceptance. Using evidence-based approaches like Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), we work together to develop skills for greater stability and resilience.
2 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC
BPD
Yuka Oshimi
Counsellor/Therapist, MC, DCP(c), RCC
I support clients who experience intense emotions, relationship stress, fear of rejection, or difficulty feeling secure within themselves. My approach is compassionate, non-shaming, and focused on helping you build self-understanding, emotional regulation, and more stable ways of relating to yourself and others.
5 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
BPD
Kimberly Davidson | Katalyst Integrated Trauma Treatment
Counsellor/Therapist, RCS, MTC, RTC, SEP, CCTP, CCISM, CFRC, CATP, NARM
Trauma has many ways that it impacts people, as they need to develop varying ways to survive. This is one expression of a survival trauma response. There are so many ways to work with this the are helpful and not destabilizing to the person or the system. Understanding it is crucial to the success of healing.
20 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
BPD
Freedom of Expression Counselling
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, RCSW, T.S., RPT, CPT
I have supported people with Borderline Personality Disorder for the last 9 years. It is very prevalent amongst many populations. I work on the specific presentations of Borderline Personality Disorder brought forth and collaboratively design customized strategies to support individuals living their best lives in alignment with their values.
9 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
BPD
Strength in Heart Counselling
Treatment Center, RSW, RCC, CCC
Emotional ups and downs can be exhausting for those with BPD. We offer compassionate therapy that focuses on emotional regulation, relationship skills, and self-understanding. Our aim is to support growth, stability, and healthier connections.
8 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC
BPD
Lindsay Renaud
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist, MACP, BA, B.Ed, EMDR
Does it feel like no one understands what you're going through, or you're worried about others rejecting you? Does it feel difficult or unsafe to express emotions? Let's connect for a free 15-minute consultation.
5 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
BPD
Nina Hopmeier
Licensed Professional Counsellor, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)
The primary model that I use with individuals with BPD symptoms is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. Marsha Linehan has designed this model specifically for this diagnosis. In DBT, rather than solely challenging thoughts, which is typical in the cognitive behavioural model, I incorporate mindfulness skills to help you gain awareness of what bodily responses you experience when responding to dysfunctional thoughts and emotions. I also help you learn how to express your needs without letting emotions take over. In order to regulate emotions, I offer a variety of strategies and provide psychoeducation on assertiveness skills and interpersonal effectiveness.
15 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
BPD
Eric Olsen
Life Coach, PTSD, Trauma Triage, BSc Social Sciences, DoD Career Councilor, SARC, DAPA, Pre Licensed Human Intelligence / Psychology, Life Coach. | Professional Support: LSSBB, PgM, Bluestone PMP,
We help you work through your borderline personality disorder and navigate those areas of distress.
17 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
BPD
Tangled Minds Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, RCC
There are a lot of opinions about BPD. It is our most highly stigmatized mental health disorder—and having this label attached can be incredibly painful. The idea of your very personality being "disordered" can make change seem impossible.
I treat BPD as a nervous system, attachment-based issue. In plain speak: in folks with BPD, the parts of our brain that monitor our close relationships can get really, really triggered, activate our fight-or-flight systems, and spiral into some extreme behaviors or thoughts with huge emotions. BPD means the sense of self—the story of who we are—is often shaky and highly dependent on the people around us. This isn’t a stable foundation for healthy relationships or a healthy life.
While I am trained in the gold standard for BPD—Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)—I heavily integrate attachment theory, Mentalization-Based Therapy (literally helping people think about their thoughts in new ways and not get so stuck in them), and mindfulness.
My BPD treatment approach has four parts:
Stabilization: Learning how to calm the nervous system. Breath practices, sensory grounding, coping strategies, and meditation help us slow down in the moment and get our brains back online.
Acceptance and Mentalization: Briefly diving into the history and origin of where BPD developed in the patient. It doesn’t come out of nowhere; understanding its roots helps patients accept that the big explosions of emotion are rooted in early coping strategies and that you were doing your best to survive. This helps us step back, see the scared parts with some love, and start to build new stories about how we want to act in the world.
Attachment: Locking in to how we want to act with the people in our lives. We get specific! We learn specific ways to express our emotions in healthy ways and how to ask for our emotional needs to be met in ways that actually get them met—with good boundaries. Having a trusted therapist here is key. Navigating intimate relationships is tough at the best of times, but a BPD diagnosis makes it way more difficult. Having someone who understands traumatized attachment patterns and can tell you when you’re off track can make a world of difference.
Mindfulness and Self-Compassion: This doesn’t mean learning to sit still and feel all-pervading calm and peace. I don’t think that’s actually a thing! Practicing mindfulness specifically tailored to attachment disorders is one of the most helpful things we can do to slow the brain down, be able to "label" the intense thoughts and feelings, step back, and follow through with new actions. It’s tough. No one likes sitting and having to actually watch what comes up in their brains, but it’s worth it. Self-compassion doesn’t mean letting ourselves off the hook for behaviors that are harmful to ourselves or others. It means systematically building a brain that can sit with pain, understand and feel it, and then act in ways that actually help. Again: difficult, but worth it.
BPD therapy is difficult. My clients usually end up in therapy because trying to fix it on their own hasn't worked. With a clear path and clear goals, a better life is possible.
7 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
BPD
Dr. Claire Vines, Psy.D., Psychologist / Licensed /Psychotherapy / Psychoanalytic/
Marriage and Family Therapist, Marriage, Couples, LMFT. Psy.D. Trauma-Focused CBT
Borderline personality Disorder will make it very difficult for an individual to interact with others on a daily basis due to that person feeling confused about themselves. The emotions can become extreme, such as in impulsivity, as well as, instability and intensity within one’s relationships.
21 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC
BPD
Zain Abideen
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), BSc, MACP
Individuals experiencing borderline personality patterns often struggle with intense emotions, relationship instability, and fear of abandonment. Therapy focuses on developing emotional regulation, self awareness, and healthier relationship patterns that create greater stability over time.
1 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
BPD
Reema Qamar
Counsellor/Therapist, MA, RCC, CCC
Therapy for BPD focuses on a DBT-informed approach to teach coping skills related to mindfulness, distress tolerance e, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotional dysregulation.
3 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC
BPD
Healing Quest Counselling
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, RCSW
We work with individuals who experience intense of emotion, relationship, instability, and fears of abandonment therapy focusses on building emotional regulation in increasing self understanding and creating more stability and choice in relationships while approaching these struggles with compassion rather than judgement.
9 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC
BPD
Andrea Laznik Amit
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, MA in clinical psychology
We can help you with emotional regulation by increasing your awareness to your inner self, your deep issues that come to surface in your daily life.
27 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC
BPD
Mia Klassen
Licensed Professional Counsellor, MPCC #3875, CT #2438, LSCC
If relationships feel like an endless cycle of clinging and pushing away, if you're terrified of being left yet somehow always end up alone, if emptiness follows you no matter who's in your life—you're not broken, you're responding to deep wounds. I understand these patterns intimately and will help you see them with clarity and compassion rather than shame. Together, we'll explore where the fear of abandonment began, learn to regulate the panic that drives relationship chaos, and build genuine self-trust that doesn't depend on others' presence. You'll discover that the stability you've been seeking outside yourself can grow within.
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10 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC
Vancouver's extreme housing affordability crisis has become a defining mental health issue, with therapists frequently addressing financial stress, housing precarity, and the grief of displacement from a city many can no longer afford to stay in. The city's large East Asian community — particularly its Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and South Asian populations — drives demand for culturally fluent therapists who can navigate family dynamics, immigration stress, and the intersection of cultural expectations with individual wellbeing. BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services provides institutional support, while Vancouver's large private therapy community is concentrated in Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Commercial Drive, and the West End. BC's expanded telehealth access makes it easier to connect with therapists across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley.
Borderline Personality Disorder therapists in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Statistics
Borderline Personality Disorder therapists in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada average 11 years of experience and charge around $169 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Borderline Personality Disorder (100%), Anxiety or Fears (100%), and Depression (90%).
Average years in practice
11 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$169
Gender ID
| 68% |
Female |
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| 28% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 56% |
In Person and Online |
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| 44% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Borderline Personality Disorder |
| 100% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 90% | Depression |
| 85% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 83% | Loss or Grief |
| 83% | Self Esteem |
| 80% | Stress |