Bipolar Disorder & BPD Therapy in Manhattan, NYC
Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder involve significant challenges with emotional regulation, identity, and relationship stability.
In my Manhattan office near Union Square, I provide therapy for individuals throughout New York City seeking greater steadiness, insight, and long-term resilience.
From a Self Psychology perspective, these struggles often reflect early relational experiences in which core emotional needs were not consistently understood or supported. Therapy offers a stable and empathic setting where greater cohesion and emotional balance can gradually develop.
Bipolar Disorder Therapy in Manhattan
Bipolar Disorder is more than mood swings. It affects energy, perception, decision-making, and one’s sense of continuity over time.
- Bipolar I Disorder: Episodes of full mania that may include elevated mood, impulsivity, decreased need for sleep, and impaired judgment.
- Bipolar II Disorder: Patterns of hypomania combined with significant depressive episodes.
- Cyclothymic Patterns: Chronic mood variability that disrupts stability and relationships.
Periods of elevation can function as attempts to escape feelings of emptiness or vulnerability, while depressive phases may bring heaviness, shame, or self-doubt.
Our work focuses on recognizing emotional and relational triggers that accompany these shifts while strengthening internal supports that promote steadiness.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Therapy
Borderline Personality Disorder often involves intense emotional sensitivity, fears of abandonment, and instability in self-image or relationships.
Many individuals experience a powerful longing for connection alongside fear of loss.
Therapy focuses on building a more secure and cohesive sense of self so that relationships feel less destabilizing and more sustaining.
Over time, emotional intensity becomes more manageable, and identity feels less fragmented.
Shared Clinical Themes
- Relational Splitting: Moving from all-or-nothing perceptions toward more balanced, integrated views of self and others.
- Identity Instability: Strengthening a stable inner core that remains consistent across situations.
- Emotional Surges: Developing the capacity to remain present with intense feelings without becoming overwhelmed.
- Impulsive Coping: Understanding impulsive actions as attempts to regulate distress and developing safer alternatives.
The Path Toward Greater Stability
Therapy in my Manhattan practice integrates empathic understanding with practical regulation skills to support long-term change.
1. Strengthening Self-Cohesion
We work toward a more integrated sense of self so emotional experiences feel connected rather than fragmented.
2. Developing Emotional Regulation
Drawing from Self Psychology and DBT-informed tools, we build strategies for managing intense feelings before they escalate.
3. Understanding Emotional History
Exploring formative relational experiences can reduce self-blame and increase insight and self-compassion.
4. Building Healthier Relationships
As inner stability strengthens, relationships often become less crisis-driven and more reciprocal and sustaining.
My office at 40 West 13th Street offers a private, centrally located setting for in-person therapy in Manhattan. I also offer Zoom sessions.
I work with adults across New York City seeking structured, thoughtful treatment for Bipolar Disorder and BPD, with an emphasis on long-term stability rather than short-term symptom suppression.