Join us LIVE on March 26th
On Demand also available
BPD is a stigmatized and highly misunderstood experience and diagnosis. If you’ve ever felt confused, frustrated, or just all around overwhelmed by the diagnosis and experience of Borderline, you’re not alone! Then add the confounding factor of adolescence and you’ve found a big gap in both research and training! Join Sabrina Longley, LCSW, a DBT therapist with lived experience of BPD to get to the bottom of the harms of BPD stigma on teen girls! Build your confidence and learn actionable ways to support the clients you care so deeply about!
Did you know?
There is a consistent link between receiving compassion from mental health professionals and improved therapeutic alliance, reduced stigma, and enhanced self-perception for BPD clients (Street-Matox et all., 2025)
Due to a lack of understanding of BPD, many mental health professionals distance themselves from BPD clients and prematurely give up on treatment (something that is often perceived to be the other way around). (Ociskova et al., 2023)
Some health providers show a belief that BPD clients have more control of their actions and are more responsible for their presentation than clients with other mental health diagnoses, denoting a clear stigma (Klein, Fairweather, and Lawn, 2022)
What’s Included
2 hour live session with experiential learning
slides and bonus materials
2 NBCC CEs
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Identify stigmatizing language related to BPD
Explain the negative effects of mental health stigma on teen girls
Develop a destigmatized framework for engaging with BPD
Join us LIVE on March 26th
Meet the Instructor
Sabrina Longley, LCSW
Sabrina is a queer, fat, Black, multiply neurodivergent Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is most passionate about offering lived and clinical experience support to both clients and other mental health providers related to topics including racial justice, neurodivergence, fat liberation, queer liberation, teen mental health, and DBT. She works to honor her own lived experience and the lived experiences of other marginalized folks to promote ethical and just mental health care.
You can find Sabrina at www.radicalinsightsconsulting.com and @radicalinsightconsulting on Facebook and Instagram.
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