Personality Disorder Therapy
Edmonton
The ways we experience ourselves, relate to others, and respond to the world can become deeply rooted over time. For some people, longstanding patterns in emotions, relationships, self-image, or coping can create challenges that feel difficult to change.
Understanding patterns.
Building meaningful change.
Borderline/Histrionic Personality Disorders
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Working with intense emotions, self-image, interpersonal patterns, and challenges within relationships. Building skills towards stability.
Explore patterns involving self-image, self-worth, emotional intensity, and relationships. Build greater awareness of your needs, vulnerabilities, and ways of connecting with others.
How I can support...
Explore patterns of perfectionism, high standards, control, and difficulty adapting to change. Develop greater flexibility while maintaining the values and strengths that matter to you.
Explore patterns of self-doubt, reliance on others, and difficulty making decisions independently. Build greater confidence, autonomy, and trust in your own ability to navigate life.
Obsessive Compulsive
Personality Disorder
Dependent Personality Disorder
Therapy isn’t about labelling or getting a diagnosis. While a diagnosis can sometimes provide helpful language and understanding, you are always more than a label.
Sometimes, people notice longstanding patterns that continue to create distress in their lives and relationships. You may find yourself experiencing intense emotions, struggling with your sense of identity or self-worth, fearing rejection or abandonment, having difficulty trusting others, or repeating relationship patterns you wish you could change.
Together, we can explore these patterns with curiosity and compassion. Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with me?”, therapy can help us understand “How did these patterns develop, what purpose have they served, and how can I create new ways of coping and connecting?”
Our work may explore emotional patterns, relationships, attachment experiences, identity, self-esteem, coping strategies, and the experiences that have shaped how you see yourself and others. Therapy can help you develop greater self-understanding, emotional awareness, healthier coping strategies, and more fulfilling relationships. Creating a sense of comfort and stability provides a foundation for this work. Together, we can focus on emotional regulation, self-image, communication, boundaries, relationship patterns, and developing more effective ways of coping when things feel overwhelming.
Whether you have received a personality disorder diagnosis, identify with certain personality-related traits or patterns, or simply feel that longstanding emotional and relationship difficulties are getting in the way of the life you want, therapy can provide a space to better understand yourself and create meaningful change.
Therapy for Personality-Related Patterns
How I Can Help With Personality Patterns
I draw from evidence-informed approaches that can be adapted to the patterns, relationships, and emotional experiences you are navigating. Our work is collaborative and paced to support safety, stability, and meaningful change.
Here are some ways I can support you:
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
Build skills for managing intense emotions, navigating relationships, tolerating distress, and responding to difficult situations with greater flexibility.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Develop greater flexibility in responding to difficult emotions while reconnecting with your values and what matters to you.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Explore patterns between thoughts, emotions, and behaviours
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Process distressing or traumatic experiences in a way that can reduce their emotional impact and support a greater sense of safety and integration.
Emotion-Focused Approaches
Understand and respond differently to intense or difficult emotions
Interpersonal Approaches
Explore relationship patterns, communication, boundaries, and connection
Building Inner Stability.
If you’re ready to better understand the patterns shaping your relationships, emotions, and sense of self, I invite you to reach out and explore whether therapy may be a good fit.