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 Connections™
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.
Events and Webinars
A Life Worth Sharing: Skills We Actually Use
Whether you completed Family Connections™ or Managing Suicidality & Trauma Recovery (MSTR) last month or years ago, you’re invited to reconnect with the BPD Alliance community. A Life Worth Sharing is a monthly Zoom gathering that brings Family Connections™ and MSTR alumni together for meaningful conversation and continued connection. Each month, we’ll explore a different […]
Writer’s Circle
Calling all writers! Are you writing about loving someone with Borderline Personality Disorder? Do you want a space to develop your work with people who truly “get it?” Join our supportive writing community.
Understanding, Boundaries, and Balance: Supporting a Child with Borderline Personality Disorder
Supporting a child with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can bring moments of deep connection alongside uncertainty, worry, and exhaustion. Whether your child has recently been diagnosed or you’ve been navigating these challenges for years, this 60-minute webinar is designed to help you better understand BPD while offering practical, compassionate ways to support your child, and […]