Sometimes. Psychiatrists (MDs) often charge more than licensed therapists. Among therapists, rates vary more by experience, location, and specialization than by credential type (LCSW vs. LPC vs. LMFT). There's no universal pricing based on credential letters.

If it causes regret, damages relationships, affects work, or feels out of control, then it's a problem. Additionally, if multiple people express concern, then your anger is likely a problem. Healthy ways of reacting to anger is when it's expressed respectfully and doesn't damage relationships.

Childhood trauma requires specialized treatment because it affected your development and identity formation. Childhood trauma can be particularly challenging because it becomes your normal and may be hard to recognize as abnormal since that’s what you were always accustomed to. Treatment helps and many childhood trauma survivors find tremendous relief from trauma therapy even decades later. It can take time but healing happens.

Start with whatever's possible. Online Therapy is often easier to address anxiety since you can do it from your own environment without the need to travel to sessions. So go at your own pace, and know that treatment isn’t perfect and it's okay if you stumble or have lapses along the way. Build as you go, and little by little you should see progress.

That's what DBT addresses, building tolerance for emotions and reducing reactivity. Emotional intensity is a primary BPD symptom and DBT teaches critical emotion regulation skills. DBT helps you understand emotions, decrease suffering from emotions, and change emotions. Many people with BPD describe emotions as overwhelming and more intense than the situation warrants. Treatment teaches you to make effective decisions despite intense feelings and reduce intensity through skills over time. Through a consistent practice of DBT skills, most people notice a gradual decrease in emotional intensity.

Absolutely. DBT skills aren't just for mental illness or crisis—they're useful life skills. Mindfulness helps you stay present instead of constantly worrying. Interpersonal effectiveness helps you communicate at work and in relationships. Emotion regulation helps you manage everyday frustrations. Distress tolerance helps you handle life's inevitable disappointments without falling apart. Many people learn DBT for a specific mental health issue, then continue using skills for general life management because they're just useful. You don't need to be in crisis to benefit from knowing how to observe your thoughts, tolerate discomfort, or assert your needs.

Emotion regulation skills help you understand and change your emotions rather than being controlled by them. Key skills include: identifying and labeling emotions (knowing what you're feeling), understanding the function of emotions (what emotions are telling you), reducing vulnerability (PLEASE skills—taking care of your body reduces emotional reactivity), accumulating positive emotions (short-term: doing pleasant things daily; long-term: building a life you don't want to escape from), opposite action (changing emotions by changing behavior), and problem-solving (addressing the situation causing the emotion). You practice by noticing your emotions throughout the day, identifying triggers, using skills to shift them when needed, and taking care of yourself so you're less emotionally vulnerable.

Yes, you can log in from any device with internet connection using your account credentials. You can also download the worksheets or reading manuals so they're always accessible even without internet connection.

DBT was specifically developed for BPD and is the gold-standard evidence-based treatment for it. The self-guided program goes through the same skills used in comprehensive DBT therapy for BPD. So, yes the DBT self guided program will certainly be helpful for BPD. Many people who have BPD couple the DBT self guided program, with individual therapy with a DBT specialist &/or online group therapy that focuses on DBT skills.

Online therapy is way easier to fit in than traditional therapy. No commute to appointments means you can do a session over lunch, before work, after work without adding two hours of travel time. Some people do therapy at 7am before logging on, others do it at 7pm after work. You can even do it from your office if you have privacy. The flexibility is the whole point, you're already stretched thin with work demands, so eliminating the commute to therapy makes it actually manageable.