Services
Trauma, Personality and Relationships
This space works with the wounds that repeat in how you relate to yourself and to others.
This might sound familiar if…
- The same difficulties keep repeating in your relationships, even as the people change.
- It's hard to trust that someone will stay, even without a clear reason to doubt it.
- There's a period in your life that still feels like it's affecting you today.
- A substance or a behavior has become harder to control than you'd like.
BPD and personality disorders
A dedicated full page — our specialist niche.
How it can feel
Intense emotional instability, fear of abandonment, difficulty holding a stable sense of identity.
How we work with it
Psychoanalytic work sustains the process, coordinated with psychiatry when needed.
This process may call for psychiatric support alongside therapy. IMALVA coordinates with psychiatry; it does not prescribe medication.
Read more about BPD and personality disorders →Trauma and PTSD
Complex trauma, childhood wounds.
How it can feel
Hypervigilance, intrusive memories, difficulty feeling safe even at rest.
How we work with it
We work at the pace the process allows, without forcing the story before you’re ready.
Addictions and dependencies
How it can feel
A relationship with a substance or behavior that feels out of control.
How we work with it
Psychotherapy as part of a broader process; may need coordination with other specialists.
This process may call for psychiatric support alongside therapy. IMALVA coordinates with psychiatry; it does not prescribe medication.
Relational difficulties
Family, attachment, codependency, isolation.
How it can feel
Patterns that repeat across your relationships, trouble setting boundaries or letting others close.
How we work with it
We explore the attachment patterns organizing your current relationships.
Eating disorders
How it can feel
A conflicted relationship with food, the body, or control.
How we work with it
This is not a weight-loss service. The work is psychotherapeutic and may need coordination with nutrition and medicine.
This process may call for psychiatric support alongside therapy. IMALVA coordinates with psychiatry; it does not prescribe medication.
Every person arrives with a unique personality structure — some more overwhelmed, others more reserved — which is exactly why the initial diagnostic interviews matter: they avoid rushing to a label.
Not sure this is it?
If what weighs most right now is a loss, your own or someone close to you, rather than a pattern repeating in your relationships, that conversation belongs on Grief and Thanatology.
See Grief and ThanatologyFrequently asked questions
Is BPD treatable? +
Yes. Sustained psychotherapeutic work, sometimes alongside psychiatry, helps stabilize the process.
One step at a time
You don't need this figured out, or even the right words for it, to start. The first step isn't a diagnosis. It's a conversation.