What we treat · Personality
Borderline personalitydisorder treatment.
BPD treatment here is C-PD informed PHP or IOP in Laguna Beach. Distress skills first, then the rest of the week.
Located in Laguna Beach, California
(949) 670-9345- The weekPHP or IOP
- StartDistress skills
- ThenRelationships
What this page is
BPD treatment is a program week.
Borderline personality disorder treatment here is C-PD informed PHP or IOP in Laguna Beach, not a single skills hour. Distress skills come first, then relationships, then identity. DBT-informed work sits in the same week as trauma and use when they are part of the chart. It is not a hospital or a locked unit.
Distress skills first. Then the relationship. Then identity.
A week of skills first
How borderline sits in a PHP or IOP week.
A BPD IOP or PHP day at Exist runs the whole model. Group for the pattern. 1:1 for the history. Distress skills for the hour that will not wait. DBT-informed work when the skill belongs in the plan. Psychiatry when medication is part of it. Lunch is in the house, not a cafeteria line. You go home at night — or to Truth House if you are already in the program and home is far or not the right night. The day is not a personality-disorder track down the hall. Trauma and use sit in the same groups when they are part of the week.
Body
Breath, the skill that makes the next hour possible. The week starts in the body when the mind cannot.
Mind
The automatic thought, the split, the story that just flipped. We work the reaction before asking you to change the life.
Brain
What sits under the pattern — personality, trauma, and use read as one history, in a safe room.
Skills
Distress skills, then time with your own clinician. Not a hallway that waits until you are “stable enough” for personality work.
Who holds the week
C-PD in the room. Not a personality-disorder hallway.
Dr. Courtney Tracy · Founder and chief clinical officer
Courtney is C-PD certified. Distress skills sit in the same PHP or IOP week as the rest of the chart.
Founder
Dr. Courtney Tracy
In the room
LCSW · PsyD · CCTP
Clinic
Joint Commission PHP / IOP
How it shows up
The names in the room. Same week.
This is not a directory of other conditions. Those live on the hub. These are the ways personality work arrives here — treated together, not after each other.
All we treatBorderline
Skills for the hard hour first. Then relationships, then identity.
- Distress skills
- Relationships
Other patterns
Other personality disorders are treated on this page. You do not need a different door.
- Same page
- Same week
Use as relief
Alcohol, prescriptions, stimulants — treated with the pattern underneath, in the same week.
- Dual diagnosis
- Same week
Skills week
DBT-informed skills sit in the same PHP or IOP plan. Not a standalone weekly group.
- DBT
- Skills
Three steps to a start date.
- 01
Reach out
Call (949) 670-9345 or send the form. You talk to the clinic — not a call center.
- 02
We verify
We check your benefits and map borderline personality disorder treatment against PHP, IOP, and outpatient — honest about which fits.
- 03
A start date
We recommend a level of care and set a date — and talk through Truth House if you’re coming from out of town.
Questions about BPD treatment, answered plainly.
C-PD informed PHP or IOP in Laguna Beach for borderline and other personality disorders. Groups, 1:1, distress skills, then relationships. Nights at home or at Truth House. We are not a hospital and not medical detox. Call (949) 670-9345.
Something we didn’t cover? Call (949) 670-9345 — you talk to the clinic, not a call center.
The next hour can have a skill.
Call Exist at (949) 670-9345 or send the admissions form. We’ll say honestly whether PHP, IOP, outpatient, or a referral is the right level — and what your benefits actually cover.
Clinically reviewed by Dr. Courtney Tracy, LCSW, PsyD · Reviewed September 2026