I work with individuals who have been diagnosed with — or who identify with — Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) using a trauma‑informed, neurodivergent‑affirming approach that emphasizes compassion, collaboration, and choice.

BPD is often framed in highly stigmatizing ways. In my work, I understand many BPD traits as adaptive responses to chronic relational trauma, attachment injury, and nervous system sensitivity, shaped in interaction with biological and emotional factors. Intense emotions, fear of abandonment, shifting self‑image, and relational sensitivity are not signs of being “too much” or broken — they reflect a system that learned to survive in environments that were unsafe, inconsistent, or invalidating.

I do not require clients to see their experience through any single framework. Some people understand their experiences primarily as trauma responses, others as neurodivergence, others as a personality structure, and many find that multiple lenses are true at once. Therapy is guided by how you make meaning of your experience, not by forcing a label to define you.

Therapy is collaborative and paced to your needs. You are not expected to suppress emotions, prove stability, or earn care. This is a space where intensity is met with curiosity, not fear — and where your experience is respected, regardless of the language you choose to describe it.