Borderline Personality Disorder therapists in East Melbourne, Victoria VIC, Australia AU

Life is hard enough at the best of times. Learning skills and strategies and taking new perspectives can help improve quality of life.  

Kate specialises in treating Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), having worked for 11 years at Spectrum, the Victorian Unit for Personality Disorders. However, there is a cap on how many clients with this disorder she can have at one time, so if she cannot take you it is due to the desire to pace her energy over all her clients.  

Illume Psychology is a boutique psychology practice that offers a nurturing space to meaningfully and collaboratively work through your inner troubles. A diagnosis of personality disorder can be confusing and necessitates the thoughtful and skilled attention of a dedicated therapist to provide support, help make sense of past experiences and bring to awareness problematic patterns of thought and behaviour to empower you to create sustained change in your life.  

As one of the original founders of the Australian Borderline Personality Disorder Foundation I work as a sole practitioner to spread the message of the Australian BPD Foundation. That message is simple. BPD is manageable and it is curable, with the correct therapy.  

The foundation of BPD has it's root in repressed shame and guilt, usually as a result of an invalidated and neglectful childhood. The egoic identity as constructed from shame and guilt will need to be transcended to alleviate chronic BPD symptoms.