Anita Mandley – Beyond the Borderline Label

Outline

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