Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Trauma
Many people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and trauma struggle to find good therapy, and therapists who are effective to work with. While it is very possible to treat Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and trauma and offer people tremendous relief, that can be hard to find. In this post, I discuss Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and trauma, and how the two are linked and how to find helpful therapy.
Assumptions About Survivors with Sarahi Gutierrez
In this blog post, I’m talking with my colleague and good friend, Sarahi Gutierrez, about the 10 Assumptions of Survivors. I personally consider Sarahi quite the expert in DBT. She is so masterful at engaging in this intervention, so I wanted to get her insight into how these assumptions can shape how we engage with survivors in the world and in the community, how we can engage with ourselves, and why these are so important.
Therapy, Trauma, and Our Therapist Friends - Interview with Kelsey Harper, Psy.D.
Dr. KELSEY HARPER, Psy.D., is a practicing psychologist, writer, podcaster, and sexual assault survivor with a background in community work and activism. Her unique path to psychology, profound lived experiences, and inherent creativity have given her a vast perspective and razor-sharp discernment when it comes to treating her clients.
10 Assumptions About Survivors
These are assumptions (or beliefs) that we should make an active choice to ascribe to as a way of interacting with survivors that’s actually helpful and effective and truly sees survivorship for what it is. Understanding that survivorship is a very unique experience and the transactions that survivors have with the outside world significantly influence their recovery is crucial. When the environment can hold beliefs about survivors that are more accurate, effective, and true to their experience, we can be more effective at helping survivors, dismantling rape culture, and ending sexual violence altogether.
