Beyond the Borderline Label

CPD

Speaker

Anita Mandley, MS, LCPC Related seminars and products

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Anita Mandley, MS, LCPC, is an integrative psychotherapist practicing at The Center for Contextual Change. She’s the creator of the Integrative Trauma Recovery Group (ITR), a group therapy process designed specifically for adults with developmental and complex PTSD.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Anita Mandley maintains a private practice and is a consultant with Complex Trauma, Core Energetics, and Womencare Counseling. She receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Anita Mandley has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Articulate BPD’s intricate connections to complex and developmental trauma, and the resulting treatment implications.
2. Evaluate how states of pervasive emotional dysregulation may play out in sessions and inform clinical treatment interventions.
3. Determine which therapeutic strategies work with BPD clients and which are counteractive in a clinical setting.
4. Utilize strategies for coping with the symptoms of repeated exposure to extreme emotional reactions in clients.

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 behaviours 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

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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