Mission

Middle Path is an online resource striving to  provide education,  advocacy and resources  for those affected by borderline personality disorder.   

Middle Path's activities include:

  •  Development and distribution of educational materials 
  • Partnering with professional and advocacy organizations to promote consumer/professional collaboration  
  • Speaking on BPD symptoms, treatment and recovery 
  • Providing  consumer consultation services 
  • Advocating for treatment, stigma reduction and insurance parity.

Presentations, Conferences and Consultations

Clinician/Consumer Trainings on BPD

Project Transition, Chalfont, PA [May, 2007]
Dallas / Ft. Worth VA Hospital, Ft. Worth, TX [December, 2006]
Errera Community Care Center, West Haven, CT [September, 2006] VA Peer Support Conference Call (Pt. 1 & Pt. 2) [November, 2006]


Conference Presentations

Department of Veterans Affairs: 3rd Annual VISN 23 Mental Health Conference, Minneapolis, MN [May 2007] Faculty, "BPD From the Inside Out"


New England Personality Disorder Association: Living With Borderline Personality Disorder: Advances and Treatments Conference, Belmont, MA [March, 2007] Presenter, “What is A Borderline?”

National Alliance on Mental Illness, Expert BPD Focus Group, Arlington, VA [November, 2006] Participant and Presenter, “BPD Recovery and Peer Support.”

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Annual National Convention, Washington, DC [July 2006] Speaker and Panelist, “Ask the Doctor: Borderline Personality Disorder”

American Psychiatric Association: Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada [May 2006] Young Investigator Poster Presentation, “Peer Facilitated Psychoeducation for Borderline Personality Disorder: Further Findings”

Yale University School of Medicine & the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder: Borderline Personality Disorder Conference, New Haven, CT [May 2006] Panel Chair and Presenter, “Peer Support for Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenge Through Partnership and Collaboration”

University College London & National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder: BPD: International Perspectives on Engaging Families and Delivering Services Conference London, UK [April 2006] Speaker and Panelist, “A Service-User’s Perspective”

Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention: 5th Annual Statewide Suicide Prevention Conference , Sturbridge, MA [April 2006] Workshop Chair and Presenter, “Understanding Suicidality and Self-harm in Borderline Personality Disorder: Clinical, Consumer and Family Perspectives.”

Manic Depressive and Depressive Association (MDDA ): Community Lecture, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA [December, 2005] Featured Speaker, “A Primer on Dialectical Behavior Therapy”

National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder & McLean Hospital : 4th Annual Conference: Perspectives on Borderline Personality Disorder: Past, Present and Future, Burlington, MA [ Nov. 2005] Speaker and Panelist, “Consumer Perspectives on BPD”

American Psychiatric Association: 57th Institute on Psychiatric Services, San Diego, CA [Oct. 2005] Poster Presenter, “Peer Facilitated Psychoeducation for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Pilot Model”

Mount Sinai School of Medicine & the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder: What is It, How to Treat It, Hope for Families, New York City [June 2005] Speaker and Panelist, “Recognizing and Treating BPD”

Consultant work

  • Vinfen, Cambridge, MA [2006-7], Assessment and Evaluation of Peer Educators Project; DBRC Advisory Board
  • Project Transition, Chalmont, PA [2006-7] Development of recovery model for BPD; filming recovery narratives project