Personality Disorders therapists in Butler, PA
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Personality Disorders
Clear Path Counseling and Wellness Center
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA. LPC
Brad provides trauma-informed therapy for individuals experiencing personality-related difficulties, including long-standing patterns that impact emotional regulation, relationships, self-image, and overall functioning. These challenges are often associated with chronic interpersonal conflict, emotional instability, difficulty maintaining relationships, and persistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that feel hard to change.
Brad takes a holistic and trauma-focused approach, recognizing that personality-related patterns often develop in response to early childhood trauma, attachment wounds, emotional neglect, abuse, or invalidating environments. Therapy focuses on increasing insight, emotional awareness, and the ability to understand and gradually shift long-standing relational and behavioral patterns.
As an experienced trauma therapist and EMDR therapist, Brad integrates EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), trauma-informed counseling, emotional regulation skills, and holistic therapeutic approaches to support deep and lasting change. Treatment often involves exploring past experiences, attachment dynamics, and core beliefs that continue to influence present-day relationships, emotional responses, and identity.
Personality-related challenges are typically persistent and deeply rooted, which means meaningful progress often requires consistent, structured therapeutic work. Rather than focusing only on surface-level behaviors, therapy emphasizes understanding underlying emotional pain, processing trauma, and developing healthier ways of relating to self and others.
Brad also works with couples and families when appropriate to support improved communication, healthier boundaries, and more stable relational dynamics. This collaborative approach can help reduce conflict, increase understanding, and support more balanced and functional relationships over time.
The goal of therapy is not to label or define a person, but to support emotional growth, greater self-awareness, and the ability to build healthier, more stable, and more fulfilling relationships. With the right support and commitment, meaningful change is possible.
28 Years Experience
Online in Butler, PA (Online Only)
Personality Disorders
Jonah Taylor
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I offer specialized, depth-oriented therapy for individuals navigating the challenges of enduring personality patterns, including traits of Borderline (BPD) and Narcissistic (NPD) Personality Disorders. Our work focuses on building emotional stability, self-awareness, and healthier ways of relating to yourself and others.
6 Years Experience
In-Person Near Butler, PA
Online in Butler, PA
Personality Disorders
Sarah Fandel
Counselor/Therapist, LPC, LMHC, LCPC
I am experienced in using the modalities listed above to treat personality disorders including schizoid, BPD, and NPD.
11 Years Experience
Online in Butler, PA (Online Only)
Personality Disorders
Elisha S Lee
Counselor/Therapist, NCCA CTCC CPC
Personality Disorders counselingand support services cater to individuals experiencing difficulties due to enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that significantly deviate from cultural expectations, causing distress or impairment in functioning. Our specialized care focuses on understanding the complexity of personality disorders, such as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), and others, with the aim of guiding clients towards healthier and more adaptive ways of relating to themselves and the world around them.
Tailored Counseling Approaches
* Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): A core treatment for individuals particularly with BPD, focusing on building skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
* Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps in identifying and changing negative thinking patterns and behaviors associated with various personality disorders.
* Schema Therapy: A therapeutic approach that combines elements of CBT, attachment theory, psychodynamic concepts, and emotional processing to address deep-rooted patterns.
* Education: Educating clients about their condition to promote understanding and self-awareness, which is crucial for managing symptoms and fostering healthier relationships.
* Support Groups and Peer Support: Facilitating connections with others facing similar challenges, providing a supportive community for sharing experiences and coping strategies.
Goals of Counseling
Our counseling and support for personality disorders aim to:
* Enhance Self-Awareness: Increase understanding of one’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and how they relate to the disorder.
* Improve Emotional Regulation: Develop skills to effectively manage intense emotions and reduce emotional distress.
* Foster Healthier Relationships: Help individuals build and maintain healthier and more satisfying relationships through improved communication and empathy.
* Strengthen Coping Mechanisms: Equip clients with adaptive coping skills for dealing with stress and life challenges.
* Increase Life Satisfaction and Functioning: Support individuals in achieving a more fulfilling life, with greater independence and improved social and occupational functioning.
Personality Disorders counseling and support require a customized and empathetic approach, recognizing the unique challenges that individuals face. We are dedicated to providing a safe and nurturing environment where clients can explore their thoughts and behaviors, build meaningful skills for change, and work towards realizing their full potential. Reach out to learn more about our services designed to support healing and growth.
9 Years Experience
Online in Butler, PA
Personality Disorders
Dr. Ryan Kitts Schallon
Psychologist, PsyD
The word disorder is misleading. What gets called a personality disorder is almost always a self that organized itself brilliantly around conditions that demanded it — conditions that were often unbearable. The rigidity, the intensity, the patterns that keep producing the same crises: these are not defects. They are architecture. And architecture can be understood, respected, and — slowly, from the inside — redesigned. This work is long. It requires a relationship that can withstand what the person brings into the room. That is the point.
3 Years Experience
Online in Butler, PA
Personality Disorders therapists in Butler, PA Statistics
Personality Disorders therapists in Butler, PA average 16 years of experience and charge around $226 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (83%), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) (49%), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (46%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$226
Accept insurance
34%
Offer sliding scale
51%
Gender ID
| 49% |
Female |
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| 44% |
Male |
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| 7% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 69% |
In Person and Online |
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| 31% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 83% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 49% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
| 46% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 46% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 43% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 43% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 34% | Behavioral Therapy |
Ages Served
| 97% | Adult |
| 74% | Young Adult |
| 66% | Teen |
| 46% | Senior |
| 29% | Children |
Client Focus
| 49% | Women |
| 46% | LGBTQ+ |
| 46% | Men |
| 34% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 31% | Military / Veterans |