Borderline Personality Disorder Therapy & BPD Treatment in Denver
Take control of your emotions and develop skills to manage your symptoms.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Borderline personality disorder, often referred to as BPD, is a complex mental health issue that primarily affects adults between the ages of 18 and 35. In general, people are diagnosed with borderline personality disorder as adults, not when they’re children or teens, because symptoms can often fade as younger people become older and more mature.
About 1.4% of adults in the United States have borderline personality disorder, and it’s most commonly found in women. BPD causes continuous patterns of varying mood swings, self-esteem issues, and behaviors—including impulsive decisions, fear of abandonment, and emotional instability.
People who have borderline personality disorder usually experience intense periods of anger, depression, and anxiety that are difficult to predict and can last for days. Because BPD often includes mood swings and confusion about the person’s place in the world, someone with borderline personality disorder can quickly change their interests, habits, and opinions, which often results in unstable relationships at home, in life, and at work.
While borderline personality disorder has historically been considered difficult to treat, there are therapy methods like DBT that have been proven to help people cope with BPD so that they can develop skills that help them live better lives. If you have BPD, it’s important to create a trusting relationship with a therapist who specializes in borderline personality disorder and treatment modalities that can help you control your symptoms.
Many studies have shown that weekly sessions with a therapist, along with the proper support can help treat people who have borderline personality disorder. At My Denver Therapy, we have multiple therapists in the Denver area who have extensive experience working in residential treatment and individual therapy using DBT with people who have borderline personality disorder. By developing skills that can help you manage your symptoms, you can take back control of your life.
Signs of Borderline Personality Disorder
- Difficulty with relationships: You might have unstable relationships with your friends, family, and significant others that experience intense positive and negative swings.
- Impulsive behavior: You might make questionable or dangerous decisions, like risky driving, binge eating, having one night stands, or unhealthy behaviors.
- Suicidal thoughts: Low self-esteem and unstable moods can lead to you having recurring suicidal thoughts.
- Long-lasting mood swings: These mood swings can last hours or even days, and you might have intense anger that you can’t control.
- Trust issues: You might find yourself always questioning someone’s intensions or spiraling about what something means.
- Self-esteem issues: Heightened by mood swings, you might have distorted self-image issues that cause you to make problematic, even dangerous decisions in the moment.
- Feeling frantic or empty: You might feel bored with your everyday life or make impulsive decisions that all feel like they need to be done at once.
Can therapy help with BPD?
Yes, therapy can help you treat and manage borderline personality disorder, especially using proven therapy methods like Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to retrain your behaviors.
With the help of a Denver BPD therapist, you’ll learn skills that can help you manage your symptoms, regulate your emotions, and break the thoughts that might be causing issues in your relationships and causing anxiety, depression, and more.
Also, many of our therapists have a background in treating trauma, where we can help you heal and move forward from life events that might be holding you back.
DBT skills for borderline personality disorder
If you’ve heard about DBT therapy to help with borderline personality disorder, here’s how our therapists use it to help clients with BPD.
Mindfulness: We help build your self-awareness and presence in ways that apply to situations that occur in your every day life.
Distress tolerance: You learn skills to recognize and manage difficult situations and avoid spiraling in ways that make them worse.
Emotional regulation: We help you experience your feelings in ways that are present and manageable in real-time.
Interpersonal effectiveness: You'll learn skills that can help you build stronger relationships at home and at work by understanding how you operate.
How DBT helps with BPD
- Stronger relationships: You can build relationships that have a foundation of respect and trust. Positive, trusted relationships can have a strong effect on your ability to manage BPD.
- Improve everyday life: By training yourself in mindfulness and other skills, your outlook on life and the moments that cause distress can be managed and seen with the perspective you need.
- Motivate yourself: If you’re feeling bored or uninspired by your everyday life, or focus on negative things when they happen, you can learn how to set realistic, positive goals and move forward.
- Develop practical skills: With the help of your therapist, you’ll train yourself on new ways to slow down, lower stress, see things as they are, and manage your relationships.
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Meet our therapists
My Denver Therapy is one of the largest woman-owned therapy private practices in Colorado with many of the best, most requested mental health therapists in the Denver Metro area.
As a therapist-owned practice with decades of combined experience, we care about seeing our clients heal, grow, and thrive. We’re one of the only therapy practices in Colorado with licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, social workers, and psychiatric nurse practitioners who actively see new clients. Whether you’re an adult, teen, young adult, couple, or family, our inclusive therapist team is built to specialize in you.
Our practice started with one therapist in a shared office suite, but we’ve grown to help thousands of people in Colorado by providing in-person therapy at our conveniently located Denver Metro area counseling offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, and Lone Tree, plus online therapy for clients throughout Colorado. Because of the way our team works, our therapists also provide consultation for other therapists and private practices in the Denver Metro area.
Our inclusive therapists provide some of the most innovative, effective, and in-demand forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, CBT, and IFS. We also have more therapists trained in Ketamine-assisted therapy, EMDR, and more teen therapists and young adult counselors than nearly every other private practice in Denver.
We know that clients want to find the best therapists in Denver, so our team includes therapists with different backgrounds, specialities, and experiences to help you find the right fit. We’ll match you with one of our therapists who is the best for your goals, location, budget, and schedule to help you get started quickly.
We’re out of network for insurance, Tricare, and are unable to take Medicaid, but most of our therapists’ rates are lower than the local and national averages for therapy.
All of our therapists take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
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