Borderline Personality Disorder Therapy With a DBT-Informed Approach

Amber offers DBT-informed individual therapy, which is one piece of what a full, adherent DBT program provides. Those programs add a weekly skills group, phone coaching between sessions and a consultation team for the clinicians. If a comprehensive program is what you need, she'll tell you and help you look for one.

In individual sessions, you learn the four DBT skill areas (mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness) and practice applying them to situations from your own week.

The 'dialectical' in DBT means holding two ideas at once: you're doing the best you can with what you have, and some things need to change. Amber keeps both in view. Her sessions are direct and warm, and she'll name a pattern openly when she sees it.

When trauma is part of the picture, Amber works on that too, once there's enough stability to do it safely.