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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?

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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.

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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

BPD Alliance routinely offers educational webinars, skills workshops, and more to connect, inform and inspire people with any background. If the timing of our live events doesn’t work for you, many of them are recorded to watch later. See a sampling of our offerings below, register for events now, or start watching recorded webinars.
Day of Connection (In-Person)

Day of Connection (In-Person)

Join us for a special Day of Connection, happening in communities across the country. These in-person gatherings are intentionally small, welcoming, and designed to foster genuine human connection.

In Their Words: A Parent Panel Honoring Marsha Linehan’s Legacy

In Their Words: A Parent Panel Honoring Marsha Linehan’s Legacy

In honor of Marsha Linehan - creator of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) - join us on her birthday for a heartfelt conversation featuring a panel of parents who love and support someone living with borderline personality disorder. This event celebrates the legacy of her work while centering the voices of those navigating BPD in their families every day.

8:30 PM (America/New_York)
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