PROGRAMS
Accessible, Compassionate Help
Our evidence-based programs, courses, and events provide education, skills, and connection to individuals living with borderline personality disorder (BPD), their family members, and the clinicians who support them. With flexible scheduling, on-demand options, and recorded webinars, we can help you build understanding, strengthen relationships, and work toward meaningful change whatever your schedule or situation.
On-Demand Programs
For Family Members
If you’re a loved one of a person with borderline personality disorder, this free, six-video series is a great place to start. The videos demonstrate how DBT-based communication and emotion regulation skills foster healthier household environments.
For Individuals with Lived Experience
Borderline personality disorder often comes with intense emotions that may feel out of control. This free, six-video series can help created by Dr. Alan Fruzzetti can help increase your understanding of emotions and help you build skills to tolerate and process them.
For Clinicians
Need help treating your chronically emotionally dysregulated clients? This free, on-demand six-video course was designed by professionals at McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School to help clinicians understand, diagnose, and treat clients with borderline personality disorder.
Family Member Courses
Families come to us from many different situations, but often have the same question:
What do we do now?
Our family programs support families navigating BPD, chronic emotion dysregulation, crisis, suicidality and recovery. These structured, evidence-based programs combine education, practical skills, and support, grounded in compassion and lived experience.
The programs are designed for families with related and different needs. Some families take both programs at different times. Which is right for you?
Family Connectionsâ„¢
This program is designed for family members, partners, and other loved ones of individuals who have traits of borderline personality disorder or chronic emotion dysregulation.
Participants learn how emotion dysregulation affects behavior, relationships, and communication and how to respond in ways that reduce conflict while preserving compassion and healthy boundaries. Drawing from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), it teaches practical relationship skills and provides education to help families make sense of their experiences.
Managing Suicidality & Trauma Recovery Program
This program is designed for parents living with the impact of their son or daughter’s suicidal behavior, self-harm, or repeated safety crises.
The course addresses parents’ fear, stress, and trauma that often accompany these experiences while teaching skills to help parents regulate their own emotions, reduce trauma-based reactions, and strengthen their connection with their child. Research shows that a strong support system can be a protective factor against suicide.Â
Events and Webinars
Growing Up Online: Teens, Technology and Mental Health
This 90-minute presentation explores what parents and caregivers need to know to better understand the unique developmental challenges facing youth in an increasingly online-dependent culture.
Validation: What Is It and Why Is It So Hard?
In this practical and engaging webinar, Kelly Graling, PhD, breaks down what validation really is (and isn’t) and why it can be so challenging to practice—especially when a loved one is struggling with intense emotions.
ChatBPD: Rejection & Validation
In this session, panelists from the Lived Experience Committee will share their perspectives and answer your questions about the pain of rejection and the power of validation in relationships.