Online Borderline Personality Disorder therapists in Oakville, Ontario ON, Canada CA
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BPD
Maor Bernshtein, MSW, RSW, Psychotherapist
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW, Psychotherapist
BPD is one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized diagnoses in mental health. From the inside, it can mean intense emotional pain, fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, an unstable sense of self, impulsive behaviours, or chronic emptiness. Many people carry deep shame about the diagnosis or have felt judged in past therapy. Effective BPD therapy begins with genuine safety and non-judgment. Together, we’ll understand the patterns behind your responses and build practical skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and navigating relationships more effectively. Visit pathwaytoself.ca to book a free 20-minute consultation and ask any questions you have.
8 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Maddie (Matin) Motamed
Registered Psychotherapist, Master's in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy
I have extensive training in dialectical behavioural therapy which is the most effective modality to help with self-regulation and distress tolerance for clients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder
7 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON (Online Only)
BPD
Cynthia Sewell, Embrace Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, CH CHyp
Emotional dysregulation is at the heart of BPD. Learning how to regulate your emotions is a key life skill and can support you to build and maintain relationships and handle difficult situations in a way that make you proud as opposed to regretful.
19 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Jasmine Bruce
Pre-Licensed Professional, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) RPq, MACP, BA
Living with BPD can feel like an emotional rollercoaster. Deep connections, fear of loss, and intense reactions that leave you feeling misunderstood. Together, we’ll create a calm, supportive space to explore these feelings and the parts of you that work so hard to protect against rejection. Through IFS and psychodynamic therapy, you’ll learn to understand your emotions rather than fear them, develop steadier relationships, and begin trusting yourself again.
2 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Healing Pathways Counselling
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapists
We support individuals living with borderline personality disorder who may experience intense emotions, relationship difficulties, fear of abandonment, identity struggles, and challenges with emotional regulation. Our approach is compassionate, non-judgmental, and focused on helping clients better understand their emotional patterns, build coping skills, and create more stability in their lives and relationships. Therapy offers a supportive space to strengthen self-awareness, improve emotional regulation, and develop healthier ways of coping and connecting with others.
4 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Teo Counselling Services
Registered Psychotherapist, MACP, CCC, RPq
Living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can bring intense emotions and unstable relationships, but with the right support, healing is possible. I specialize in BPD therapy, combining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clients develop emotional regulation skills and build healthier relationships. My approach focuses on understanding the core challenges of BPD, including impulsivity, self-image struggles, and emotional instability, while empowering clients to embrace self-compassion and create lasting change. If you’re seeking support for BPD, I’m here to help you navigate your journey toward emotional balance and a fulfilling life.
6 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON (Online Only)
BPD
Nicole Park
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying)
Our ADHD therapy provides tailored support and practical strategies to help individuals manage Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder effectively. We focus on improving attention, organization, and impulse control through evidence-based interventions. Our approach includes psychoeducation, behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices to enhance daily functioning and overall well-being. Our goal is to empower individuals with ADHD to thrive in all areas of their lives.
3 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Tamara Daniszewski
Registered Social Worker, M.ED, MSW, RSW
BPD often feels like emotions are turned up too loud and relationships feel uncertain or unstable. At Brookhaven Psychotherapy, we offer therapy that teaches emotional regulation, distress tolerance and healthier relationship patterns, often using approaches like DBT. You are not “too much”; you are someone who feels deeply and deserves support.
13 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Zonaira Chaudhry
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist MSW, RSW
Living with intense emotions, relationship challenges, or identity struggles? As a BPD specialist trained in DBT, I understand that your experiences are valid responses to life circumstances. I work comprehensively across all areas of dysregulation - emotional, behavioral, interpersonal, and identity - while recognizing how these interconnect in your daily life.
My approach is holistic, often including family and loved ones to create an environment that supports your growth. While emotions may always be intense, together we'll build practical skills to navigate them effectively and create more stability in your life.
In our work, you'll find an accepting, judgment-free space where your experiences are normalized and understood.
Contact me for a free 15-minute consultation: https://zonairapsychotherapy.com/
9 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Tej Neringer, Pivotal Counseling
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that affects the way people feel about themselves and others, making it hard to function in everyday life. It includes a pattern of unstable, intense relationships, as well as impulsiveness and an unhealthy way of seeing themselves. I use Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to work with BPD which focusses on using mindfulness as a way to increase distress tolerance, enhance emotional regulation, and improve self-esteem and identity to enhance relationships.
7 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Tanya Beach
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP (Qualifying)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a complex and often misunderstood condition, characterized by emotional instability, impulsive behaviors, and significant challenges in interpersonal relationships. These emotional fluctuations can leave you feeling in a constant state of dysregulation, affecting your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. My approach to working with BPD is informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), where we explore the different emotional parts that emerge in order to better understand their origins and purposes. Given the complexity and stigma surrounding BPD, it's essential to explore the underlying factors contributing to your experience, including early childhood relationships and current relational patterns. Together, we will work toward gradually rebuilding your sense of self and addressing any confusion about your view of self and your view of others. Book a free 15-minute consultation with me to see if I’m the right fit for you.
3 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Dr Calvin Young
Counsellor/Therapist, PhD, LCPC
Borderline personality disorder treatment can be fun, well until they turn on you. If you understood that then we are definitely on the way towards positively intervening with your BPD
30 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON (Online Only)
BPD
Vaughan Counselling and Psychotherapy o/a Zormin Counselling and Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, RP(Q), RSW, C.Psych., C.Psych.Assoc., ND
Living with borderline personality disorder can often feel like an emotional rollercoaster, marked by intense feelings and relationships. Our therapists specialize in providing tailored therapeutic approaches that focus on emotional regulation and interpersonal skills, helping clients navigate their experiences with compassion and clarity. Through evidence-based techniques, they support individuals in developing healthier coping mechanisms and fostering a greater sense of stability and self-worth.
7 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Lisa Shouldice Pychotherapy Clinic
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, CCP
We are trauma specialized and work with clients that have been diagnosed or suspect they have BPD. We create a treatment plan and work together to manage affect regulation and create/maintain healthy relationships. We support the individual, couples and families.
22 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON (Online Only)
BPD
Rebekah Wright
Registered Psychotherapist, MDiv, RP
Working with borderline personality disorder involves understanding intense emotional experiences, relational patterns, and fears of abandonment. I provide a structured and steady therapeutic space to explore these patterns while building emotional regulation and a stronger sense of identity.
5 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
The Cohen Clinic
Psychologist, Psy.D.
People living with Borderline Personality Disorder often struggle with identifying and managing their emotions. This can lead to feeling a loss of control, resulting in impulsivity and negative self-image. Clinicians will work with you by utilizing Dialectical Behavior Therapy, the most effective treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder to manage emotions.
14 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON (Online Only)
BPD
Alicia Alessandrini
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, BSW, MSW, RSW
Do you feel like BPD is something that takes over your life, or you want to learn more about? We can consider your feelings and experiences while learning new skills to take into daily life.
5 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON (Online Only)
BPD
Sherine Chacko
Registered Social Worker, MSW,RSW
DBT-informed, compassion-forward BPD therapy online for emotion regulation, identity, and relationships. Clear goals, between-session tools, and paced work that believes change is possible. We go as steadily as you need.
17 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Melissa Huang
Registered Psychotherapist, (Qualifying), MA
Living with BPD often means feeling everything at maximum volume: emotions that hit like waves, relationships that swing between closeness and fear of abandonment, and an unstable sense of who you are underneath it all. It's an exhausting way to live, and it's so often met with judgment instead of understanding. That changes here. You'll find a warm, nonjudgmental space where your intensity is not too much, and where we work together to make sense of your emotional world rather than pathologize it. Drawing on approaches like DBT, the goal isn't just crisis management, it's to genuinely understand yourself, build skills that steady your emotions and relationships, and develop a more solid, compassionate sense of who you are. Together we'll work toward feeling more regulated, more secure in your connections, and more equipped to build a life that feels worth living.
2 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON
BPD
Barbara Freedman
Licensed Mental Health Counsellor
The BPD and Trauma Connection Several trauma survivors have been diagnosed by other professionals with BPD , even though it is thought to be genetic in some cases. I have had extensive experience dealing with those who have been affected by this disorder due to the abuse or neglect they sustained during childhood. As a Mental Health Worker/Counsellor, on Ottawa's Victim Quick Response List for the past 9 years, I have successfully worked with over hundreds of Victim Service clients, in such areas as, child abuse, sexual trauma and exploitation including rape, incest, being sex trafficked, along with intimate partner violence.
Individuals with BPD reflect an attachment injury leading them to the formulation of implausible perceptions and conclusions about what other people’s actions and behaviors. Their distorted fashion of interpretation leads them to believe that they cannot trust anyone as this would only involve disappointment. As a child, when their caregiver did not show up for them, they tried desperately to adapt repeatedly, however were unsuccessful and learned that this involves too much energy and does not work. They continue to experience life as a child, as they have been left with these intense perspectives and overwhelming emotions which are turned up to maximum volume on much of what they feel. When these states become traits, they cause profound distress. Rejection sensitivity is a key feature of this disorder resulting in interpersonal difficulties, along with failed relationships characterized by extreme feelings of emptiness, abandonment, and lack of identity. All these behaviors further lead to the tendency for those around them to feel that they are walking on eggshells.
I often used both experiential inner child work in addition to Dialectical Behavior Skills to address the issues involved in this disorder.
The role of counselling for those with BPD is to start to uncover painful emotional wounds and feelings which they have disconnected from for years. Rather than sitting with and experiencing their feelings clients with BPD have been experts in covering, hiding, or dissociating from them. Interventions involving DBT-Dialectic Behavior Therapy includes skills training connected to Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation(Anger management), and Distress Tolerance, which is comprised of stress management, conflict resolution as well as cognitive behavior therapy.
While it has taken considerable time, I have helped many with this process through patience, understanding and validation of what they had been through. I help to provide light at the end of this dark tunnel .
23 Years Experience
Online in Oakville, ON (Online Only)
Oakville is one of the most affluent municipalities in Canada — a well-established Toronto suburb with a high median household income, well-funded schools, and a therapy culture that reflects the stresses of high-achieving, upper-middle-class suburban family life. The city's concentration of executives, professionals, and their families creates demand for therapists working with relationship complexity, parenting under pressure, and the psychological costs of maintaining prosperity and family cohesion. Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital provides institutional mental health resources alongside a well-established private therapy community. Oakville's growing diversity — with expanding South Asian and East Asian communities in its newer residential subdivisions — is gradually broadening the range of cultural frameworks therapists need to engage with.
Borderline Personality Disorder therapists in Oakville, Ontario, Canada Statistics
Borderline Personality Disorder therapists in Oakville, Ontario, Canada average 10 years of experience and charge around $176 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Borderline Personality Disorder (100%), Trauma and PTSD (92%), and Depression (89%).
Average years in practice
10 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$176
Gender ID
| 74% |
Female |
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| 20% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 66% |
In Person and Online |
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| 34% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Borderline Personality Disorder |
| 92% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 89% | Depression |
| 89% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 76% | Self Esteem |
| 75% | Social Anxiety |
| 75% | Stress |