Borderline Personality Disorder Help NY and CT

Beyond Therapy & Medication: A New Era of BPD Healing Is Here:
With TMS, Nutrition, and Acupuncture

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Find hope and healing from the emotional storms of BPD through advanced brain stimulation therapy. Discover a groundbreaking, non-invasive approach to emotional regulation, reduced impulsivity, and lasting stability through our Enhanced TMS Protocol: available at our Scarsdale, NY, and Greenwich, CT, locations.

The BPD Struggle: When You’ve Tried Everything

Are you stuck in a cycle of unpredictable emotions that leave you and those you care about feeling drained? Does borderline personality disorder make you feel like you’re constantly on an emotional rollercoaster: experiencing intense anger, profound sadness, and a deep fear of being alone? Have you spent years in therapy, tried different medications or intensive programs, but still struggle with impulsivity, mood swings, and difficult relationships?

Do you often feel like your reactions are out of proportion, yet you can’t control them in the moment? If you answered yes to these questions, you need to know that you’re not flawed, and you can find help. Borderline personality disorder is a brain disorder, a fundamental problem with the neural pathways that control emotion, impulse control, and how you react to stress.

It’s not just a psychological issue that can be fixed with willpower or therapy. It’s an electrical problem in specific brain areas, the prefrontal cortex and amygdala, where circuits controlling emotion are malfunctioning. While medications like mood stabilizers and antidepressants can help with some symptoms, they can’t fix these faulty circuits. That’s where Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy can help.

What is TMS Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder?

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) uses magnetic pulses to help regulate brain circuits linked to borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms. Unlike medication, TMS focuses specifically on the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, an area vital for emotional control, impulse management, and planning.

Research indicates that people with BPD have less activity in this cortex and stronger links between the amygdala (the brain’s emotional center) and other areas. This leads to intense emotional reactions, impulsivity, and difficulty with self-control. TMS delivers magnetic pulses that increase brain activity and restore normal function in these circuits.

The treatment is non-invasive. A magnetic coil is placed near your scalp, and brief pulses create small electrical currents that recalibrate brain activity. You stay awake during sessions and can resume normal activities immediately. Studies show TMS significantly reduces BPD symptoms like anger, impulsivity, mood swings, and emotional dysregulation.

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Why Our BPD Program is Different

SeeBeyond Medicine focuses on optimizing your brain. While TMS shows promise for borderline personality disorder, lasting change requires more than just magnetic pulses. Real healing involves addressing your brain circuits, biochemistry, inflammation, nutritional needs, and lifestyle.

Our Enhanced TMS Protocol combines four key elements to improve your BPD symptoms and create sustainable progress.

Neurotransmitter Testing (Pre & Post-Treatment)

We measure, not guess. Before you begin TMS, we conduct comprehensive neurotransmitter testing to establish your baseline levels of serotonin, dopamine, GABA, norepinephrine, and other critical brain chemicals that influence mood stability and impulse control. We test again after your treatment course to provide you with objective, measurable evidence of the neurochemical shifts occurring in your brain. This precision approach ensures we’re optimizing your unique biochemistry.​

Calm IV Therapy

During your TMS treatment, we support your nervous system with our specialized Calm IV formulations containing therapeutic doses of Magnesium and B vitamins. These nutrients are essential for neurotransmitter synthesis and help reduce the chronic hyperarousal and anxiety that fuel emotional dysregulation in BPD. By nourishing your brain at the cellular level, we create the biochemical foundation for TMS to create lasting change.​

Acupuncture Sessions

We integrate evidence-based acupuncture into your treatment plan to enhance neuroplasticity, reduce inflammation, and increase Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF)—a vital protein that supports the formation of new, healthier neural pathways. Acupuncture also helps regulate your autonomic nervous system, reducing the fight-or-flight reactivity that keeps you trapped in emotional storms. This ancient healing modality works synergistically with TMS to create deeper, more sustainable brain changes.​

Health Coach Brain Health Sessions

Your health coach will guide you on food choices, sleep habits, stress relief, and supplements to help stabilize your mood. We focus on these areas because BPD symptoms can be affected by blood sugar swings, gut inflammation, lacking nutrients, and disrupted sleep cycles. Our approach addresses these issues while TMS therapy works to reset your brain circuits.​

SeeBeyond works differently. Instead of just masking symptoms, we help your brain heal itself by tackling the root causes, not just covering them up with medication.

Your Partners in Healing in NY and CT

At SeeBeyond Medicine, we see you as a unique person with a story, a history, and natural healing power, not just a diagnosis. Under Dr. Joon Lee’s expert leadership, our team offers the compassionate, physician-led care you deserve. We carefully listen to understand your specific BPD symptoms, what triggers them, your goals, and your individual needs. We believe healing is always within reach when you address the root causes, not just what shows on the surface.

Our thorough Enhanced TMS Protocol for borderline personality disorder is offered at our Scarsdale, NY, and Greenwich, CT offices. We support individuals across Westchester County, Fairfield County, and the wider New York metro area. If you’re dealing with intense anger, chronic emptiness, unstable relationships, self-harming actions, or the draining mood swings common with BPD, you’ll get the same science-backed, integrated, and truly personal care at either clinic. We’re with you every step of the way, from your first meeting to achieving lasting emotional balance.

Is TMS for Borderline Personality Disorder Right for You?

Consider TMS therapy if you struggle with BPD and:

  •  Medications haven’t helped or caused bad side effects, and haven’t fixed your emotional control issues.
  • You use therapy like DBT but still find it hard to manage emotional reactions.
  • You want a drug-free method that targets brain activity causing symptoms, not just covers them up.
  • You’re ready for a complete treatment plan covering brain circuits, diet, and lifestyle.
  • You seek advanced, proven treatments beyond standard psychiatric care.

TMS for BPD is still being studied and is considered off-label. However, research shows it’s safe and helps with BPD symptoms like impulsivity, anger, mood swings, and planning difficulties. 

Your Questions About TMS for Borderline Personality Disorder

What does TMS for BPD feel like?

TMS produces a gentle tapping sensation on your scalp where the magnetic coil is positioned. You remain fully conscious and alert during the entire session—no sedation or anesthesia is involved. Some patients experience mild scalp discomfort during the first few sessions as they adjust to the sensation, but this typically diminishes quickly. There is no downtime, and you can drive yourself to and from appointments and resume normal activities immediately.​

How long is a TMS session for BPD?

Each TMS session typically lasts 30 minutes. The full treatment protocol for borderline personality disorder often consists of 30 sessions split into two courses of 15 sessions, booked over three to six weeks. Some patients are able to have more than one session per day to accelerate the treatment timeline. The exact protocol will be personalized based on your response and specific symptom profile.​

Why do you combine TMS with functional medicine?

Because emotional dysregulation doesn’t occur in a vacuum. Your neurotransmitter balance, inflammation levels, gut health, nutritional status, blood sugar stability, and stress hormone regulation all profoundly influence your brain’s ability to regulate emotions and impulses. By combining TMS (which directly resets the dysregulated circuits) with neurotransmitter testing, IV therapy, acupuncture, and personalized health coaching, we address the biochemical and lifestyle root causes that either support or sabotage your emotional stability. This is how we create lasting healing, not just temporary symptom relief.​

Is TMS FDA-approved for borderline personality disorder?

TMS is not currently FDA-approved specifically for BPD; its use for this condition is considered off-label and remains an area of active research. However, the existing scientific literature demonstrates that TMS is well-tolerated and effective for reducing core BPD symptoms, including emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, anger, and mood instability. Many evidence-based treatments begin as off-label uses before gaining formal approval as research accumulates.​

What brain areas does TMS target for BPD?

TMS for borderline personality disorder typically targets the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC), a brain region that shows decreased activation in individuals with BPD compared to healthy controls. High-frequency stimulation of this region increases cortex excitability and helps restore normal emotional regulation. Research also shows that TMS reduces hyperactive connectivity between the amygdala (your emotional alarm system) and the default mode network, which correlates with symptom reduction.​

Can TMS help with the anger and impulsivity of BPD?

Studies show TMS effectively reduces anger and impulsivity, and improves self-control in BPD patients. One review found TMS significantly improves impulsivity and self-control. Other research shows better anger management, emotional stability, and planning after just 10 TMS sessions. This happens because TMS helps restore normal prefrontal cortex function, key for impulse control and emotional regulation.

Will TMS work if I’ve had BPD for many years?

TMS works for long-term BPD symptoms. Symptom length doesn’t predict success. What matters is your brain’s ability to change and your dedication to treatment. Our Enhanced Protocol boosts neuroplasticity with nutrition, acupuncture, and neurotransmitter balance. This helps your brain heal, no matter how long you’ve struggled.

How do I get started at SeeBeyond Medicine?

First, we’ll meet to review your history, BPD symptoms, and goals. We’ll discuss if TMS is right for you and explain our Enhanced TMS Protocol. Then, we’ll create your personal plan and support you with expert care.

Begin Your Journey to Lasting Stability

You’ve lived with the chaos, the shame, the exhaustion of emotional storms that seem beyond your control. You’ve survived relationships that ended in flames, impulsive choices you regretted, and the crushing sense that you’re fundamentally broken. But here’s the truth: you are not broken. Your brain circuits are dysregulated, and dysregulation can be corrected.

At SeeBeyond Medicine, we don’t just believe healing is possible—we’ve witnessed it in patients who were told they would struggle with BPD for life, who were labeled “difficult” or “treatment-resistant,” who had nearly given up hope. Borderline personality disorder is not a life sentence. It’s a brain circuit disorder that responds when you combine cutting-edge neuroscience with root-cause functional medicine.

Your first step is simple: a consultation to understand your brain, your biochemistry, and your personalized path to emotional stability and freedom. Learn more about our foundational TMS therapy program and discover how our evidence-based, integrative approach is helping patients throughout New York and Connecticut reclaim their lives from BPD.

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