Articulate BPD’s intricate connections to complex and developmental trauma, and the resulting treatment implications.
- Expanding the story we and our clients tell to explain the behaviors and symptoms of BPD
- Looking at symptoms as survival strategies, management patterns and attachment cries
- Finding the missing resources
Evaluate how states of pervasive emotional dysregulation may play out in sessions and inform clinical treatment interventions.
- Learning to hear the attachment cry and responding to what’s needed in the moment with mindful interventions
- Decreasing the internal pressure for our clients and ourselves with regulation strategies
Determine which therapeutic strategies work with BPD clients and which are counteractive in a clinical setting.
- Providing the missing resource
- Auto-regulation to co-regulation to self-regulation
Utilize strategies for coping with the symptoms of repeated exposure to extreme emotional reactions in clients.
- Therapist’s own self and the impact of working with high intensity activation patterns
- Expanding the therapist’s tolerance and capacity for awareness, presence, tolerance and resiliency