Personality Disorders
What Are Personality Disorders?
Personality disorders are mental health conditions involving longstanding patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that can affect how a person understands themselves, relates to others, and responds to different situations.
These patterns can sometimes create challenges in relationships, emotional regulation, self-image, work, or other areas of daily life. Therapy can provide a supportive space to better understand these patterns and work toward healthier ways of coping and relating to others.
How Can Therapy Help?
Therapy can help you develop greater awareness of your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationship patterns.
Depending on your needs, therapy may help you:
- Better understand patterns that affect relationships
- Develop healthier ways of managing emotions
- Improve communication and interpersonal skills
- Build a stronger and more consistent sense of self
- Develop healthier coping strategies
- Manage distress and difficult emotions
- Recognize patterns that may contribute to conflict
- Strengthen self-awareness and self-compassion
- Work toward more satisfying and stable relationships
Treatment is individualized and based on your experiences, needs, and goals.
Who Can Benefit From Therapy?
Therapy may be helpful for individuals experiencing longstanding emotional, interpersonal, or behavioral patterns that interfere with daily life or relationships.
You may benefit from support if you:
- Experience recurring difficulties in relationships
- Have difficulty managing intense emotions
- Struggle with self-image or identity
- Experience patterns of conflict with others
- Have difficulty coping with stress or perceived rejection
- Find that longstanding patterns interfere with work, school, or relationships
- Want to better understand yourself and your relationships
A diagnosis is not required to seek support for emotional or relationship concerns.
What Can We Help With?
Therapy may provide support with:
- Emotional regulation
- Relationship difficulties
- Interpersonal conflict
- Self-esteem and self-image
- Identity concerns
- Stress and coping
- Communication difficulties
- Patterns of behavior that interfere with daily life
- Anxiety and depression that may occur alongside other concerns
Personality Disorder Support at Modern Me Psychology
At Modern Me Psychology, we recognize that discussing longstanding patterns of behavior, emotions, or relationships can feel difficult. Therapy provides a supportive, nonjudgmental environment for exploring these patterns and identifying opportunities for change.
Treatment is collaborative and individualized. Your clinician can help you develop greater awareness of your experiences while building practical skills and healthier ways of responding to yourself and others.
Our Clinicians Who Work With Personality Disorders
Related Approaches
Depending on your needs and treatment goals, approaches that may be incorporated into treatment include:
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Strengths-Based Therapy
Explore our Anxiety, Depression, and Attachment & Relational Problems pages for additional information.
Ready to Get Started?
Understanding longstanding patterns can be an important step toward creating meaningful change. Therapy can provide a supportive place to explore your experiences and develop healthier ways of coping and connecting.
Services are available in person at our Roselle, Illinois office and through telehealth for clients located in Illinois.
We accept several insurance plans, and coverage varies by plan and clinician. Contact us to confirm your benefits and whether your preferred provider and service are covered.
