Usually, yes. In-person therapy in places like NYC, SF, LA, Boston run $200-400+ per session easily. Grouport's pricing is the same whether you're in Manhattan or Montana, which means significant savings if you're located in an urban city. Grouport’s Individual therapy sessions average $103/session and our group sessions are between $25-$35/session which are both way less than one in-person individual therapy or group therapy session in most expensive cities. You're also saving commute time and money, no $20 Uber rides or subway fare to get to appointments.

Currently, no, Grouport doesn't directly accept insurance as we are out of network. However, many clients get reimbursed through out-of-network benefits. Upon request, Grouport provides detailed receipts you can submit to your insurance company for potential reimbursement. Whether you get reimbursed and how much depends on your specific plan's out-of-network mental health coverage.

Memory gaps are normal in trauma since the brain protects you by blocking overwhelming experiences. Therapy works with what you do remember. Gaps don't prevent you from healing.

Many people experience anxiety without a specific trigger. You just feel anxious most of the time and can’t pinpoint a cause. Generalized anxiety often works this way. You don't need a specific trigger for therapy to help. Anxiety management skills work regardless of whether you know why you're anxious.

Start wherever you can. Depression can make everything feel impossible, including seeking help. A single session is better than none. Remind yourself you don't have to be energetic in therapy and understand that waiting until you feel fully better to start therapy means never starting at all. If you can minimally participate, therapy works even when you're struggling significantly. Momentum is built gradually.

Borderline Personality Disorder involves intense emotions, unstable relationships, poor sense of self, impulsivity, and fear of abandonment. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was specifically developed for BPD and works well. In DBT, you’ll focus on emotion regulation, fluctuations in mood, anger, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal skills. Comprehensive DBT includes weekly individual therapy with a DBT specialist and a weekly DBT skills group therapy session. There are less intensive formats and also more intensive formats that help to address BPD. So the level of intensiveness in therapy is based on your symptoms and needs, but the main thing is to ensure you are doing DBT therapy in some capacity as that’s what enables progress.

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.

DBT is used for eating disorders, especially binge eating disorder and bulimia. There's even a specialized version called DBT-ED (DBT for Eating Disorders). Eating disorder behaviors often serve the same function as self-harm—regulating overwhelming emotions. DBT teaches you to identify emotional triggers for eating disorder behaviors, use skills instead of restricting/binging/purging, tolerate distress without resorting to eating disorder behaviors, and build a life worth living beyond the eating disorder. Mindful eating is also part of DBT by paying attention while eating rather than using food to numb out. That said, eating disorders often require specialized treatment beyond just DBT, including medical monitoring and nutritional support.

The program teaches coping skills that help with suicidal ideation, but it's not crisis intervention. If you're actively suicidal right now, call 988. The skills you'll learn are for managing those thoughts over time, not replacing immediate crisis support.

It's self-paced, so one major advantage of this format is complete flexibility. You can pause whenever, and resume whenever. There is no expiration as you get lifetime access. Many people work steadily through the material, then use their unlimited access for periodic reviews. Others start and go through some amount of material, pause, and return months later when they’re ready to resume. You also don’t have to go through all the skills at once but can just focus in on certain sections that way you can hone in on one particular skill or module so that it’s more digestible before moving on to a different area. Whichever way you go about it, having lifetime access provides complete flexibility to go at your own pace.

It’s designed for adults and older teens. Younger children need more developmentally appropriate skill building. However, many parents learn DBT skills themselves and teach their children in a style that makes sense for their learning and promotes consistent practice.

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.