Borderline Personality (BPD) Therapists in Nelson
Working with individuals who struggle with relationships, anxiety, depression, change of circumstances, low self-esteem & the challenge of every-day life, further complicated by the stress of Covid and inflation! If you'd like to improve the way you see the world and how you react to it, to help improve relationships with others as well as with yourself, then I could help.
Working with individuals who struggle with relationships, anxiety, depression, change of circumstances, low self-esteem & the challenge of every-day life, further complicated by the stress of Covid and inflation! If you'd like to improve the way you see the world and how you react to it, to help improve relationships with others as well as with yourself, then I could help.
Developing together a safe space to explore, we can work towards connecting with, and understanding your inner world (thoughts, emotions, body sensations and nervous system responses) as a pathway towards awareness, resilience and lasting healing.
Developing together a safe space to explore, we can work towards connecting with, and understanding your inner world (thoughts, emotions, body sensations and nervous system responses) as a pathway towards awareness, resilience and lasting healing.
Hi, I am a registered clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist living and practicing in Nelson, New Zealand. My primary focus is providing psychotherapy. Psychotherapy involves the careful application of techniques that help people change their behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and other personal characteristics in ways that enable them to thrive and cope with the stresses of living. I prefer to work with clients in person but if meeting in person is impossible or impractical, I can provide services online.
Hi, I am a registered clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist living and practicing in Nelson, New Zealand. My primary focus is providing psychotherapy. Psychotherapy involves the careful application of techniques that help people change their behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and other personal characteristics in ways that enable them to thrive and cope with the stresses of living. I prefer to work with clients in person but if meeting in person is impossible or impractical, I can provide services online.
Whether you're struggling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, disordered eating patterns or body image concerns, I am here to provide you with the support, guidance, and expertise you need to embark on a journey towards recovery, healing, and reclaiming your life. Together, we will navigate the challenges, celebrate the victories, and embark on a path towards lasting freedom and empowerment.
Whether you're struggling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, disordered eating patterns or body image concerns, I am here to provide you with the support, guidance, and expertise you need to embark on a journey towards recovery, healing, and reclaiming your life. Together, we will navigate the challenges, celebrate the victories, and embark on a path towards lasting freedom and empowerment.
Shelley obtained a Doctorate of Psychology and completed post grad work in Nova Scotia Canada in 2010. She is a NZ registered clinical psychologist & served in the role of Clinical Manager of a National DBT Service. DBT is an integration of western and eastern psychological philosophies and along with EMDR and CBT based prolonged exposure, is one of Shelley’s preferred therapeutic models for working with emotional regulation, complex needs and trauma.
Shelley obtained a Doctorate of Psychology and completed post grad work in Nova Scotia Canada in 2010. She is a NZ registered clinical psychologist & served in the role of Clinical Manager of a National DBT Service. DBT is an integration of western and eastern psychological philosophies and along with EMDR and CBT based prolonged exposure, is one of Shelley’s preferred therapeutic models for working with emotional regulation, complex needs and trauma.
Kia ora, I'm Paola. In therapy, change comes in waves and cycles, like with the tides. I provide my clients a safe and professional environment to navigate those therapeutic tides in the smoothest way possible. I bring to the therapeutic process competence, clarity and clinical discernment for the client to be able to dive safely in the deep waters of personal transformation. Clients report that they experience tangible results as enhanced self-esteem and trust, reduced severity of symptoms as anxiety, depression, grief or mental confusion, and the restoring of their capacity for secure, and organized relationships, among others.
Kia ora, I'm Paola. In therapy, change comes in waves and cycles, like with the tides. I provide my clients a safe and professional environment to navigate those therapeutic tides in the smoothest way possible. I bring to the therapeutic process competence, clarity and clinical discernment for the client to be able to dive safely in the deep waters of personal transformation. Clients report that they experience tangible results as enhanced self-esteem and trust, reduced severity of symptoms as anxiety, depression, grief or mental confusion, and the restoring of their capacity for secure, and organized relationships, among others.
Little Raven Counselling
Counsellor, NZAC - Provisional
Verified Verified
Nelson 7010 (Online Only)
Not accepting new clients
Kia Orana and Hello! My name is Elizabeth Putaura. I was born in Rarotonga and raised in New Zealand. I live in Nelson where I also received my BA in counselling. I am a member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors and am an ACC registered counsellor/provider for integrated service for sensitive claims. I have worked as a counsellor for 3 years at a Womens Centre, a couple years as a counsellor at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, and a mentor for a budget service before I opened my private practice online in 2023.
Kia Orana and Hello! My name is Elizabeth Putaura. I was born in Rarotonga and raised in New Zealand. I live in Nelson where I also received my BA in counselling. I am a member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors and am an ACC registered counsellor/provider for integrated service for sensitive claims. I have worked as a counsellor for 3 years at a Womens Centre, a couple years as a counsellor at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, and a mentor for a budget service before I opened my private practice online in 2023.
Online Therapists
People who come to see me are usually experiencing grief, depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety or anger. Some have experienced past abuse and have a history of trauma. We relate much of this to their early relationship experiences. By working through these attachment issues, we learn how to better regulate extreme emotions.
People who come to see me are usually experiencing grief, depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety or anger. Some have experienced past abuse and have a history of trauma. We relate much of this to their early relationship experiences. By working through these attachment issues, we learn how to better regulate extreme emotions.
Clients offer an array of personal difficulties, seeking insight to issues that are consuming their normally functional life. I have treated clients on a wide spectrum of issues, ranging from mental, physical, emotional, cultural and spiritual ailments. As we uncover a client's personal narrative, their initial needs may change, yet the result remains the same, to find a sense of security and hope in their personal life.
Clients offer an array of personal difficulties, seeking insight to issues that are consuming their normally functional life. I have treated clients on a wide spectrum of issues, ranging from mental, physical, emotional, cultural and spiritual ailments. As we uncover a client's personal narrative, their initial needs may change, yet the result remains the same, to find a sense of security and hope in their personal life.
Better Self - Better Relationships - Better World. If you're wanting more confidence in yourself, more trust in your relationships, and more acceptance in the world, then I may be able to help. You'll find me an active listener. Through evidence-based interventions, I'll build a supportive therapeutic alliance with you, enabling you to achieve positive change. However, this requires your commitment to effort, time, and investment. The average course is some half dozen sessions, while deeper issues generally need more. Currently, I'm able to offer $945 as prepayment for 6 standard 50-minute sessions - more than a 10% discount.
Better Self - Better Relationships - Better World. If you're wanting more confidence in yourself, more trust in your relationships, and more acceptance in the world, then I may be able to help. You'll find me an active listener. Through evidence-based interventions, I'll build a supportive therapeutic alliance with you, enabling you to achieve positive change. However, this requires your commitment to effort, time, and investment. The average course is some half dozen sessions, while deeper issues generally need more. Currently, I'm able to offer $945 as prepayment for 6 standard 50-minute sessions - more than a 10% discount.
I’m a registered psychotherapist (PBANZ). I am ACC registered. I specialise in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. And, I welcome all those who are struggling with mental health difficulties and those who want to have a greater understanding of who they are.
I’m a registered psychotherapist (PBANZ). I am ACC registered. I specialise in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. And, I welcome all those who are struggling with mental health difficulties and those who want to have a greater understanding of who they are.
Whether you’re interested in personal development and change, organizing and exploring group dynamics or learning and training, you might just have found what you were looking for. There is a way to overcome any problem and a personalised approach guided by excellent clinical skills, is the best and most effective way to reach that goal. Improve your performance, quit smoking, lose weight, lift your mood, face your challenges, reduce anxiety and help yourself to become who you want to be.
Whether you’re interested in personal development and change, organizing and exploring group dynamics or learning and training, you might just have found what you were looking for. There is a way to overcome any problem and a personalised approach guided by excellent clinical skills, is the best and most effective way to reach that goal. Improve your performance, quit smoking, lose weight, lift your mood, face your challenges, reduce anxiety and help yourself to become who you want to be.
However we grow up, childhood experience creates habits and expectations that shape our adult selves. Often these habits seem to get in our way. What once kept us safe may now cause us pain, inhibition, depression, addiction and more. Therapy begins with the experience of being heard, without judgement. The client is the expert on their own way of living. So I ask them to teach me about themselves, while I try to get a feeling for the things that frustrate them and how they might find the freedom to live richer, more satisfying lives.
However we grow up, childhood experience creates habits and expectations that shape our adult selves. Often these habits seem to get in our way. What once kept us safe may now cause us pain, inhibition, depression, addiction and more. Therapy begins with the experience of being heard, without judgement. The client is the expert on their own way of living. So I ask them to teach me about themselves, while I try to get a feeling for the things that frustrate them and how they might find the freedom to live richer, more satisfying lives.
Therapy is a place to feel known and understood, a place to overcome painful experiences, and explore new ways of being with yourself and others. I am a compassionate, warm and authentic person with 25 yrs experience in the mental health sector. I am trained in the following modalities; Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Addiction Counselling, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Diversity Affirming Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).
Therapy is a place to feel known and understood, a place to overcome painful experiences, and explore new ways of being with yourself and others. I am a compassionate, warm and authentic person with 25 yrs experience in the mental health sector. I am trained in the following modalities; Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Addiction Counselling, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Diversity Affirming Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).
Please contact me via email, rather than phone call. Cheers.
Please contact me via email, rather than phone call. Cheers.
I work with people on their healing journey who are over 20yrs who are not finding meaning in their life struggles. It may be despondency, fear, difficulties in relationships, a lack of self-compassion and/or other issues that fuel their troubles. Within the therapeutic relationship we explore what's been previously unheard and unacknowledged to find a place of safety, ease and peace inside and out. Difficult feelings are signals to unmet needs, and together we explore and work through unfinished business and grief to arrive at needs being met, self-acceptance and previously untapped positive energy (prev as a Health Psychologist).
I work with people on their healing journey who are over 20yrs who are not finding meaning in their life struggles. It may be despondency, fear, difficulties in relationships, a lack of self-compassion and/or other issues that fuel their troubles. Within the therapeutic relationship we explore what's been previously unheard and unacknowledged to find a place of safety, ease and peace inside and out. Difficult feelings are signals to unmet needs, and together we explore and work through unfinished business and grief to arrive at needs being met, self-acceptance and previously untapped positive energy (prev as a Health Psychologist).
Insight n Beyond
Counsellor, MCouns, MNZAC
Verified Verified
Wellington 6011
Waitlist for new clients
My modality of work is IFS style / Ego State informed EMDR, Narrative and Somatic therapy. I work with people on all sorts of things that life may throw up. My work challenges a lot of your thought processes while teaching you skills. While in my work talking can be involved you still have the choice of what you wish to share and what you wish to work on. All my work, is respectful of you as a person and your needs, even though it can be challenging at times. Success is the work you take away and use to help yourself. I provide psychoeducation and tools to help you. All my work is collaborative.
My modality of work is IFS style / Ego State informed EMDR, Narrative and Somatic therapy. I work with people on all sorts of things that life may throw up. My work challenges a lot of your thought processes while teaching you skills. While in my work talking can be involved you still have the choice of what you wish to share and what you wish to work on. All my work, is respectful of you as a person and your needs, even though it can be challenging at times. Success is the work you take away and use to help yourself. I provide psychoeducation and tools to help you. All my work is collaborative.
At times we can all feel overwhelmed by challenging emotions such as anxiety, sadness, or anger. My work involves helping people to change, grow and heal, allowing them the freedom to live the life they want to live. I am friendly and warm, with a flexible and integrative style to psychological support and believe that it is a privilege to hear people’s stories and work alongside them to make sense of things during difficult times. Change is possible, let me help you to work towards having the freedom to live the life you would like to live.
At times we can all feel overwhelmed by challenging emotions such as anxiety, sadness, or anger. My work involves helping people to change, grow and heal, allowing them the freedom to live the life they want to live. I am friendly and warm, with a flexible and integrative style to psychological support and believe that it is a privilege to hear people’s stories and work alongside them to make sense of things during difficult times. Change is possible, let me help you to work towards having the freedom to live the life you would like to live.
Megan Carter, Ocean Psy Clinical Psychology
Psychologist, MPsych
Verified Verified
Wellington 6037 (Online Only)
It takes a lot of courage to reach out to a person you don’t know to work through challenges. I will meet you with compassion, for you, and hold space for your human experiences. We will build safety and trust together as we seek to acknowledge, understand, heal, and integrate what you have been through. I am passionate about supporting the diverse humans I work with to build resilience, cope, and process their experiences. I support my clients to live a life where their minds are a bit kinder to them.
It takes a lot of courage to reach out to a person you don’t know to work through challenges. I will meet you with compassion, for you, and hold space for your human experiences. We will build safety and trust together as we seek to acknowledge, understand, heal, and integrate what you have been through. I am passionate about supporting the diverse humans I work with to build resilience, cope, and process their experiences. I support my clients to live a life where their minds are a bit kinder to them.
Tēnā koe, I'm Nigel. I'm an ACT, CBT and EMDR therapist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington and online. I identify as queer and use he/him/his pronouns. Whether you’re looking to learn new skills and strategies, heal from trauma, or seeking a listening ear, I have the experience and expertise to help. Establishing an open and affirming space is really important to me and I value developing therapeutic relationships. I work with people aged 16 years and over. I enjoy hiking, sharing good food with friends and adding to my ever-growing collection of ceramics.
Tēnā koe, I'm Nigel. I'm an ACT, CBT and EMDR therapist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington and online. I identify as queer and use he/him/his pronouns. Whether you’re looking to learn new skills and strategies, heal from trauma, or seeking a listening ear, I have the experience and expertise to help. Establishing an open and affirming space is really important to me and I value developing therapeutic relationships. I work with people aged 16 years and over. I enjoy hiking, sharing good food with friends and adding to my ever-growing collection of ceramics.
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Borderline Personality (BPD) Counsellors
What is the most successful approach to treating borderline personality disorder?
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is considered the gold standard of treatment for borderline personality disorder. An evidence-based treatment, it addresses the extreme emotional reactivity, the relationship difficulties, and the acts of self-harm that create so much distress for BPD patients. DBT is a comprehensive program that includes both regular individual psychotherapy sessions and weekly group sessions of skills training.
What happens in treatment of borderline personality disorder?
Treatment typically consists of weekly individual therapy sessions that last an hour and group skill-focused instructional sessions that may last up to two hours. Patients are typically given homework “assignments” in which they are asked to practice in their daily life the skills they acquire in therapy. Patients also keep a diary tracking their emotions and impulses as a way to know which situations are most problematic and to help them gain control over their own behavior. Difficult situations and feelings are typically reviewed in therapy sessions and more constructive solutions found.
What kinds of problems does BPD treatment help with?
DBT was initially developed to dampen the self-destructive impulses of chronically suicidal patients. It is now the treatment of choice for borderline personality disorder, a serious condition marked by extreme emotional reactivity, relationship instability, and self-injurious behaviors. Treatment of BPD helps patients tolerate the flux of emotions without acting on them, often with a specific focus on tolerating negative emotions. DBT addresses the core problems of BPD—fear of abandonment, low self-esteem, and impulsivity.
What is the goal of treatment in borderline personality disorder?
The goal of treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD) is to relieve the extreme emotional distress that patients experience—to curb their emotional reactivity, to minimize their inclination to self-harm, and to reduce their impulsivity. Toward these ends, patients are not only taught an array of new coping skills and techniques for emotional regulation, they are given opportunities to practice them. Another major goal of treatment is interpersonal effectiveness; patients learn and problem-solve ways to effectively communicate in relationships, especially how to ask for what they need as a way to minimize hurt feelings.