Bipolar, Personality Disorder, ADHD & Autism Therapy

How it often shows up

• A diagnosis that explained a lot at first, and less as time went on.
• Years of coping skills, and a life that still feels managed rather than lived.
• Moods with a weather system of their own, and the dread of what the next front brings.
• Relationships that swing between too close and gone, and the shame afterward.
• Being told you are too much, too sensitive, too intense, or too difficult, by people who never asked why.
• A brain that works differently, in a family or a culture that had one way of doing things.

If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or dial 911.

Narcissistic or Borderline Personality Disorder

Personality disorders are often misunderstood and stigmatized, particularly Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorders, due to their complex nature affecting both individuals and those around them. The term "Personality Disorder" itself can feel stigmatizing, yet it simply refers to a set of interpersonal and intrapersonal challenges.

With professional support, individuals can learn to manage symptoms, improve relationships, and lead fulfilling lives. If untreated, these disorders can severely impact relationships, such as parent-child or marital connections. Many seek therapy to recover from the effects of living with someone who had unrecognized personality difficulties.

Having extensive training in treating personality disorders, we offer compassionate and comprehensive support to foster true healing, aiming for more than just symptom management. Lasting change is achievable with appropriate treatment.

Common questions

Is “high-functioning” borderline personality disorder a real thing?

The term isn’t a formal diagnosis, but the experience is real: people who meet the criteria and also hold demanding jobs, relationships, and reputations, while the intensity plays out mostly inside or at home. It is often missed, and often mislabeled as anxiety or depression. We work with it.

Do you treat bipolar disorder without medication?

Bipolar disorder usually involves medication, and we coordinate closely with your prescriber. Therapy’s job is the part medication can’t do: recognizing your patterns, understanding the triggers beneath an episode, protecting sleep and routine, repairing relationships, and building a life around the condition rather than in spite of it.

I think I have ADHD or autism but was never diagnosed.

Many adults, especially those who grew up between cultures, were never assessed, or were assessed through a lens that didn’t fit. We take that seriously and start by understanding how your mind actually works. If a formal evaluation would help, we will say so.

I’ve been in therapy for years. Why would this be different?

Because we start underneath the symptom, and because these conditions are where our psychologists trained. If earlier therapy gave you skills and stopped there, that is the place we begin. Read When Therapy Hits a Wall.

Does culture matter here?

In many families a diagnosis is a source of shame, or something never spoken of at all, and the shape of the symptoms themselves can be read very differently across cultures. We hold both the clinical picture and the cultural one. See our page on Asian American and bicultural therapy.

What does the work look like?

We start underneath the symptom. Together we look at the patterns you’ve carried from your past into your present, the stories you tell about yourself, and the cultural dynamics that shaped both. Then we gently untangle and reweave the parts of your identity and experience that have been frayed by pain, shame, or trauma, so what’s left is a stronger, more durable sense of who you are.

Depending on what fits you, our clinicians draw on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).