Personality Disorders
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
Personality-related patterns can influence how you experience yourself, manage emotions, and navigate relationships. Therapy can help you recognize these patterns, understand what may be underneath them, and develop greater flexibility in how you respond.
Creating a sense of safety 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.
Over time, therapy can help you feel more grounded in yourself, have greater choice in how you respond, and build relationships that feel more stable and fulfilling.
How Therapy can Help
How I 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.