Personality Disorder Treatment & Therapy in Dallas, TX & New Mexico
Understand Your Adaptations. Transform Your Patterns. Build Stable Relationships.
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Who is this service for?
This therapy service is for individuals struggling with identity confusion or intense fear of abandonment. It helps those experiencing emotional volatility, rigid control patterns, or chronic relationship instability. We support anyone ready to transform old survival adaptations into healthier ways of being.
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Do long-standing patterns make life difficult? Are relationships unstable? Personality disorders reflect deep adaptations. They were born from survival needs. At Kairos Counseling, we offer compassionate space for transformation.
About Personality Disorders Therapy
Personality disorders reflect long-standing adaptations to early trauma. These patterns may seem inflexible. However, they were born from deep survival needs. These often stem from relational neglect or abuse in childhood.
“You adapted brilliantly to survive what was too much to handle—and now, those adaptations deserve compassion and room to transform.”
It is important to understand these patterns. They were once essential for your survival. Now, they may create challenges.Common types of Personality Disorders we address include:
- Cluster A (Odd/Eccentric): Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal Personality Disorders.
- Cluster B (Dramatic/Erratic): Borderline, Narcissistic, Antisocial Personality Disorders.
- Cluster C (Anxious/Fearful): Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders (OCPD).
These disorders can manifest through various symptoms. These often reflect internal conflict and relational struggles:
- Identity Confusion: A fluctuating or unclear sense of self.
- Emotional Volatility or Numbness: Intense, shifting emotions or a lack of feeling.
- Intense Fear of Abandonment: A deep-seated anxiety about being left alone.
- Internal Self-Hate or Grandiosity: Extreme negative self-talk or inflated self-importance.
- Rigid Control Patterns: A strong need to control oneself or others.
- Chronic Relationship Instability: Repeated difficulties in maintaining stable relationships.
How Does Kairos Personality Disorder Therapy Work?
At Kairos Counseling & Family Therapy, we understand the complex nature of personality disorders. We see them as brilliant, yet often painful, adaptations. Our multi-modal approach focuses on healing the relational wounds that underlie these patterns. We aim to foster integration and stability.
We combine cutting-edge therapy models and modalities. These are backed by research and tailored to your unique needs:
- Attachment Theory: This reframes seemingly "disordered" behaviors as understandable relational wounds. (Reference: Bowlby, 1969; Ainsworth, 1978)
- Polyvagal Theory: We identify the underlying defensive states beneath your behaviors. Polyvagal tools effectively reduce defensive responses. (Reference: Porges, 2011)
- Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB): This fosters greater integration of your mind, emotions, and relationships. It builds a cohesive self.
- Ego State Therapy: This facilitates internal dialogue and harmony among different parts of your personality. It is effective for fragmentation and reactivity. (Reference: Knipe, 2018)
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) with Resource Development: We heal early traumatic beliefs that shaped your adaptations. EMDR is effective for fragmentation and reactivity. (Reference: Knipe, 2018)
- Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT): This helps regulate mood and discharges stuck emotions. It offers deep relief from internal distress.
- Sandtray and Art Therapy: These modalities help externalize internal chaos. They support symbolic processing. (Reference: Malchiodi, 2020)
- IASIS Micro Current Neurofeedback (MCN): This improves mental clarity and reduces reactivity. It specifically helps reduce impulsivity and nervous system overload in trauma clients.
- Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP): This helps build internal safety. It supports developing greater capacity for intimacy and empathy in relationships.
Benefits of Personality Disorder Therapy
Through specialized Personality Disorder Therapy at Kairos Counseling, you can:
- Understand Your Patterns: Gain compassion and clarity for your past adaptations.
- Heal Core Wounds: Address the underlying trauma and relational neglect.
- Find Stability: Reduce emotional volatility and relationship instability.
- Integrate Identity: Develop a more cohesive and authentic sense of self.
- Improve Relationships: Build healthier, more secure connections with others.
- Regulate Emotions: Gain greater ability for cognitive and emotional self-regulation.
- Transform Behaviors: Shift from rigid, protective patterns to flexible, adaptive responses.
Getting Started
Ready to embark on a journey of healing and transformation? We offer a Free 15-Minute Consultation. This is available via Telehealth or in-person. It's a great way to see if our specialized approach for Personality Disorders is the right fit for you.
Frequently asked questions
Don't let questions stop you from receiving the care you deserve!
At Kairos Counseling, we view personality disorders through a compassionate lens—not as character flaws or permanent conditions, but as deeply ingrained survival adaptations. These patterns typically develop in response to early trauma, neglect, or unstable attachment relationships as the mind's way of coping with overwhelming circumstances. While personality disorders involve persistent difficulties with thinking, emotions, and interpersonal behavior, we firmly believe in their potential for transformation. Through targeted therapy, these long-standing protective mechanisms can evolve, allowing for greater emotional flexibility, healthier relationships, and a more integrated sense of self.
Our clinical team has extensive experience supporting individuals across the personality disorder spectrum. This includes helping those with Borderline Personality Disorder navigate emotional intensity and relationship challenges, working with Narcissistic Personality Disorder to address underlying vulnerability beneath grandiosity, and supporting those with Avoidant Personality Disorder in overcoming social inhibition. We also assist clients with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) who struggle with perfectionism and control, along with other presentations like Dependent, Antisocial, Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders. Each client receives care tailored to their specific needs and history.
Kairos Counseling employs an integrative treatment framework grounded in contemporary neuroscience and trauma research. Our foundation draws from Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, and Interpersonal Neurobiology to understand how early experiences shape personality structure. We incorporate specialized modalities including Ego State Therapy to work with internal fragmentation, EMDR with Resource Development for trauma processing, and expressive therapies like Sandtray and Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT). Additionally, we utilize neuro-supportive interventions such as IASIS Microcurrent Neurofeedback (MCN) and the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) to help regulate the nervous system—a crucial element in creating lasting change.
EMDR therapy plays a particularly valuable role in our work with personality disorders by directly addressing their traumatic origins. Many personality disorder symptoms stem from maladaptively stored memories—EMDR helps reprocess these experiences to reduce their ongoing influence. This approach effectively decreases emotional reactivity, helps integrate fragmented parts of self, and builds crucial internal resources for distress tolerance. By calming the nervous system's trauma responses, EMDR creates neurological conditions conducive to change, making it easier for clients to develop new, healthier patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating to others. When combined with other modalities in our integrated approach, EMDR can facilitate profound shifts in personality organization and functioning.