Online therapy for antisocial personality disorder from just $25/session with licensed therapists (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) specializing in evidence-based approaches including CBT, schema therapy, mentalization-based therapy, and DBT. At Grouport, we offer online individual therapy, online group therapy, and virtual IOP options designed to help you understand the patterns behind impulsive and harmful behaviors, develop empathy and emotional awareness, and build a life that works for you without damaging those around you.
Whether you prefer personalized one-on-one care or the shared support of a therapist-led group, our online ASPD therapy connects you to expert guidance from the comfort of your own home. Online therapy provides a structured, consistent environment with lower barriers to entry, which can be especially valuable for people who have had negative experiences with institutional settings.
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At Grouport, we offer a range of online therapy options to help individuals with antisocial personality disorder develop greater self-awareness, reduce impulsive and harmful behaviors, and build more constructive relationships and life strategies. Many members choose to mix and match therapy formats.
Online therapy for antisocial personality disorder: personalized, flexible, and therapist-led. Develop greater self-awareness and build a life that works without harming others, with dedicated support every step of the way.
Whether you're interested in group therapy, individual sessions, couples or family therapy, or IOP, or a combination, you'll start by selecting the type of support that fits your needs. You can also choose the care frequency that works best for you. Complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will walk you through available therapists, group options, and scheduling. You'll make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you'll meet with and when, based on your goals, preferences, and schedule.
Attend your weekly online sessions, whether group, individual, couples, family, or IOP, at the cadence that works best for you. Our team will be here to support you every step of the way, ensuring you're happy with your care plan and helping you make changes whenever needed.
Whether you're interested in online group therapy for antisocial personality disorder, individual therapy sessions, a combination of both, or our virtual IOP for more intensive care, you'll start by selecting the format that fits your needs and schedule. You can customize the frequency of sessions and even pair live therapy with our DBT self-guided program for added support between sessions. Just complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will discuss your mental health challenges, goals, and preferences. They'll walk you through the range of therapy options best suited to your needs for managing antisocial personality disorder. You'll make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you'll meet with and select session times that are most convenient for you.
Attend your weekly online therapy sessions to build coping skills, mood regulation strategies, and stability tools tailored to antisocial personality disorder. Our team will be here to support you at every step of the way, ensuring you're happy with your care plan and helping you make changes whenever needed.
Antisocial personality disorder is more than just having a difficult personality. It is a clinical condition characterized by a persistent pattern of disregard for social rules, the rights of others, and the long-term consequences of your own behavior. If these patterns are creating problems you want to stop repeating, therapy can help you break the cycle.
Common signs to watch for include:
If you recognize these patterns in yourself or a loved one, working with a licensed therapist can help you build self-awareness, impulse control, and a more constructive life.
Antisocial personality disorder does not just affect how you relate to rules and authority. The patterns of impulsivity, disregard for others, and short-term thinking it creates can cause serious, compounding consequences across every area of your life.
ASPD frequently leads to encounters with the legal system, financial instability, and accumulating consequences that limit future options. Impulsive decisions, unpaid debts, broken contracts, and risky behavior create a cycle where short-term choices produce long-term damage.
ASPD makes it difficult to build or maintain genuine trust. Partners, friends, and family members who have been lied to, manipulated, or hurt often pull away. The resulting isolation can reinforce the belief that relationships are purely transactional, deepening the cycle.
Impulsivity, difficulty with authority, and inconsistent follow-through make sustained employment challenging. You may burn bridges with employers, clash with colleagues, or leave jobs abruptly. Over time, the pattern limits professional opportunities and financial stability.
Reckless behavior, substance use, and disregard for personal safety put your physical health at risk. People with ASPD have higher rates of injury, substance use disorders, and health problems related to high-risk lifestyles.
Despite the outward appearance of not caring, many people with ASPD experience chronic boredom, restlessness, irritability, and a sense that something is missing. The inability to form deep connections can create a persistent inner emptiness that drives increasingly risky behavior.
ASPD patterns can be passed to children through both genetics and modeling. Children who grow up with a parent displaying antisocial behavior are at higher risk for conduct problems themselves. Breaking the cycle through treatment benefits your entire family.
Starting therapy for antisocial personality disorder can feel intimidating, especially if previous experiences with mental health systems have left you skeptical. Here is what your first few sessions typically look like, so you know exactly what to expect.
Your therapist will ask about your life: your relationships, work history, legal history, and what brought you to therapy. This is not an interrogation. Your therapist is there to understand your experience without judgment and to help you identify patterns that are creating problems you want to solve.
Together, you will explore the behavioral patterns that characterize your experience: impulsivity, conflict with authority, difficulty maintaining relationships, or consequences that keep accumulating. Your therapist will help you connect these patterns to their underlying drivers.
You and your therapist will define what progress looks like for you. This might include reducing impulsive decisions, improving a specific relationship, staying employed, avoiding legal problems, or developing greater emotional awareness. Goals are always personalized and practical.
Your therapist will introduce evidence-based techniques like cognitive restructuring, mentalization exercises, impulse control strategies, and relational skills. You will leave your first session with a clear understanding of the therapeutic approach and initial strategies to practice.
See how our therapy options have helped our members experience life-changing results
Stephanie
“Grouport is time flexible and affordable and if it didn’t exist, I don’t know where I would go. I had looked into other places before Grouport and there really wasn’t any option like it.”
Michael
“I highly recommend this to anyone who is struggling with anxiety or depression. The therapists are top notch and have made me feel really comfortable and my anxiety has improved tremendously in only a few sessions!”
Isabel
"I joined Grouport to work on myself and to heal. I’m learning so much at every session! The change I see not only in myself but in my fellow group members is abundantly encouraging and profoundly fulfilling. Group therapy with Grouport is a powerful healing tool."
Sheldon
“I was feeling very down at the end of 2020 and I was ready to do something drastic that I know I'd likely regret. The group definitely helped show me that there are people who feel the same way as I do.”
Nancy
“The therapy from Grouport is high quality and convenient. I am becoming much more self aware and am liking myself more. My relationships at work are better and I’m much happier.”
Emily
“I like the connection you can make with total strangers and the confidentiality it comes with.”
Danielle
"Grouport can help you with your issues. Their therapists are well trained to work with you on your issues. I felt my anxiety greatly improve after only a few sessions. I highly recommend it!"
Glenn
"Grouport's approach to DBT is a real strength. This approach provides tools and methods for working with difficult emotions and getting a handle on them. It has given me hope where other approaches have failed."
At Grouport, our virtual ASPD therapy integrates several evidence-based techniques designed to help you develop impulse control, build empathy and self-awareness, and create a life that serves your long-term interests:
CBT helps you identify and challenge the thought patterns that drive antisocial behavior, such as "Rules do not apply to me," "Other people are there to be used," or "I need to get what I want right now." By developing awareness of these automatic thoughts and their consequences, you learn to pause before acting impulsively and consider the long-term impact of your choices.
Mentalization-based therapy helps you develop the ability to understand your own mental states and those of other people. Many people with ASPD have difficulty recognizing what others are thinking and feeling, which makes it easier to disregard their perspective. MBT builds this capacity step by step, helping you understand the impact of your behavior on others and develop genuine empathy rather than just intellectual understanding.
ACT helps you accept difficult emotions like boredom, frustration, and restlessness without acting on them destructively. By identifying what you actually value, beyond short-term gratification, and connecting your daily choices to those values, ACT helps you build a life that is genuinely satisfying rather than one driven by impulse and immediate reward.
Behavioral activation targets the apathy and destructive patterns that fuel ASPD by helping you identify and engage in activities that produce meaningful long-term rewards. Rather than seeking stimulation through risk-taking or conflict, you learn to build routines and commitments that provide a sustainable sense of purpose, accomplishment, and connection.
Schema therapy goes beyond surface-level thoughts to address deep emotional patterns formed in childhood. Through techniques like imagery rescripting, limited reparenting, and chair work, schema therapy helps you process the early experiences that taught you the world is unsafe and that vulnerability is weakness, allowing you to develop more adaptive ways of meeting your needs.
DBT skills, particularly distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness, give you practical tools for managing the impulsivity and interpersonal conflict of ASPD. Distress tolerance skills help you ride out frustration, boredom, and anger without destructive behavior. Interpersonal effectiveness skills help you get what you need from relationships through honest communication rather than manipulation or intimidation.
Every Grouport therapist is a licensed, accredited mental health professional with specialized training in personality disorders, impulse control, and behavioral change.
Our therapists typically have over a decade of clinical experience across diverse settings, with specialized expertise in personality disorders, antisocial personality disorder, impulse control, and behavioral change, and evidence-based interventions like CBT, schema therapy, mentalization-based therapy, and DBT.
We continually evaluate outcomes through internal studies and outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne, ensuring our antisocial personality disorder therapy is grounded in the latest clinical evidence.
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80%
of our members start with moderate to severe mental health symptoms
70%
of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks
50%
of our members achieve remission levels within just 8 weeks
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Antisocial personality disorder often co-occurs with other mental health conditions. Our licensed therapists are experienced in treating a wide range of challenges.
Grouport provides online group therapy, individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, intensive outpatient program (IOP), all held virtually over video chat. We also offer a DBT self-guided program. Many members combine multiple therapy types to best fit their needs.
Antisocial personality disorder is a Cluster B personality disorder characterized by a persistent pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others. It affects approximately 1-4% of the general population and is more commonly diagnosed in men. ASPD involves patterns of deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability, reckless disregard for safety, irresponsibility, and lack of remorse. It is a recognized DSM-5 diagnosis, and while it is one of the more challenging personality disorders to treat, evidence-based therapy can produce meaningful behavioral change.
The terms "sociopath" and "psychopath" are popular labels, not clinical diagnoses. ASPD is the clinical diagnosis that most closely corresponds to what people commonly call sociopathy. However, ASPD covers a broad spectrum. Not everyone with ASPD is violent or incapable of change. Many people with ASPD lead functional lives but struggle with impulsivity, relationship difficulties, and recurring consequences from poor decision-making. Therapy works best when you are motivated to change patterns that are causing problems in your own life.
Yes, every Grouport therapist is accredited and licensed. Our network includes Licensed Psychologists (PhD, PsyD), Licensed Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHC), and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT). Our therapists specialize in evidence-based approaches for personality disorders including CBT, schema therapy, mentalization-based therapy, and DBT.
Yes, though it requires commitment and the right approach. ASPD has historically been considered difficult to treat, but recent research shows that CBT, schema therapy, and mentalization-based therapy can produce meaningful improvements in impulsivity, aggression, empathy, and interpersonal functioning. Treatment is most effective when the person is genuinely motivated to change, often because the consequences of their behavior have become too costly to ignore. The goal is not to change your personality but to develop better strategies for getting what you want out of life without harming yourself or others.
ASPD and NPD are both Cluster B personality disorders and can overlap. The key differences: ASPD is characterized by impulsivity, rule-breaking, aggression, and disregard for the rights of others. NPD is characterized by grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy focused on maintaining a superior self-image. People with ASPD tend to violate rules because they do not feel they apply. People with NPD tend to feel they are above the rules. Some people meet criteria for both, and a therapist can help clarify the distinction.
Because ASPD involves deeply ingrained behavioral patterns, therapy is typically a longer-term commitment. Many people begin noticing improved impulse control and reduced conflict within 3-6 months of consistent therapy. Deeper work on empathy, trust, and relational patterns often benefits from 12 months or more. Progress is often measured in concrete behavioral changes: fewer conflicts, better decision-making, more stable relationships, and reduced legal or financial consequences.
Finding the right therapy starts with understanding your needs. If you prefer personalized attention, individual therapy provides dedicated one-on-one care. If you benefit from direct interpersonal feedback, group therapy offers real-time practice for relational patterns. For more intensive support, our virtual IOP offers multiple weekly sessions. Many members combine therapy formats for the best results. Not sure where to start? Schedule a free call with a care coordinator who can help you build a personalized plan based on your symptoms, goals, and schedule.
We offer flexible therapy options with straightforward pricing:
Online Group Therapy: Averages $32/session ($140/month).
Online Individual Therapy: Averages $103/session ($448/month).
Online Couples Therapy: Averages $114/session ($492/month).
Online Family Therapy: Averages $148/session ($640/month).
Virtual IOP: Averages $311/week ($1,348/month).
Online Teen Therapy: Averages $103/session ($448/month).
DBT Self-Guided Program: One-time fee of $500.
Payment Options: Monthly, Quarterly (Save 10%), Biannually (Save 15%). No long-term commitment. Switch therapists anytime. Cancel anytime!
Yes. We offer separate therapy groups for Adults (18+) and Teens and Adolescents (under 18). Our teen therapy programs are tailored for adolescents. ASPD cannot be formally diagnosed before age 18, but its precursor, conduct disorder, can be identified and treated in adolescence. Early intervention significantly improves outcomes and can prevent conduct problems from progressing into adult ASPD.
ASPD develops from a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental factors. Contributing factors include childhood abuse, neglect, or inconsistent discipline, growing up in unstable or chaotic environments, parental substance abuse or criminal behavior, early conduct disorder, and neurological differences in impulse control and emotional processing. Understanding these origins is not about making excuses but about identifying what needs to be addressed in therapy.
Research suggests that some features of ASPD, particularly impulsivity and aggression, tend to decrease with age for many people, often improving after age 40. However, relying on aging alone is not a strategy: the consequences accumulated during untreated years (broken relationships, legal problems, health issues) do not reverse themselves. Therapy accelerates improvement and helps you minimize damage during the years when ASPD is most active.
Our therapy outcomes are backed by outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne. 80% of our members start therapy with moderate to severe symptoms. Within just 8 weeks, 70% of members see clinically significant reduction in symptoms, and 50% achieve remission levels.
You can cancel your subscription at any time. No long-term commitment is required. Simply email us at support@grouporttherapy.com and we will send you a quick cancellation form to fill out. If your sessions occur within the member portal, you can also cancel under the manage subscription tab.
Therapy is most effective when you are genuinely motivated to change, but motivation does not have to mean you believe you are "the problem." It often starts with recognizing that certain patterns in your life are producing outcomes you do not want, whether that is failed relationships, legal issues, or a sense that life is not working out the way you had hoped. A skilled therapist will meet you where you are and help you explore what change might look like on your terms.
Yes. Living with or loving someone with ASPD can be exhausting and painful. Our family therapy and individual therapy programs help family members set healthy boundaries, recognize manipulation, protect themselves emotionally and financially, and decide what kind of relationship is sustainable. Family members often benefit from therapy even if the person with ASPD is not in treatment themselves.
Whether impulsive choices and conflict are creating consequences you want to stop repeating, or you're looking to build a more stable and constructive life, therapy can help you take back control. Start building a life where short-term impulses don't dictate long-term outcomes.
