BPD Compass
A Cognitive-Behavioral Roadmap for Personality Symptoms
Live Webinar | July 31, 2026 |12-3 PM ET
Streamline your clinical practice by targeting the personality dimension that underscore borderline personality disorder and related conditions
3 Continuing Education Credits (APA)
$10 for students with code: TRAINEE
For too long, clinicians have been taught that treating borderline personality disorder requires years of specialized training and complex, multi-year treatment protocols. BPD Compass (Cognitive-Behavioral Modules for Personality Symptoms) offers a different path.
Developed by Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala and colleagues, BPD Compass translates cutting-edge personality science into a short-term, modular treatment that efficiently targets the underlying personality processes—emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, and relational instability—that cut across BPD and its most common comorbidities (e.g., anxiety, depression, PTSD, substance use).
By focusing on personality traits rather than diagnostic categories, BPD Compass provides clinicians with a powerful yet flexible framework to help patients achieve meaningful change—even in the context of complex presentations. This transdiagnostic, personality-focused approach enables therapists to address multiple co-occurring problems at once, streamlining treatment without sacrificing depth or precision.
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Your Instructor,
Shannon Sauer-Zavala, PhD
Clinical Psychologist & PRofessor
Dr. Sauer-Zavala is Licensed Clinical PsychologistHeadline with over 15 years of experience working with people struggling with anxiety and depression. She is also an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky (UK) where she develops new treatments for common mental health conditions and tests them in rigorous clinical trials.
Dr. Sauer-Zavala is the lead developer of a short-term intervention personality difficulties to address common mental health problems – COMPASS (a loose acronym for cognitive behavioral modules for personality symptoms).
Your Instructor,
Shannon Sauer-Zavala, PhD
Clinical Psychologist, PRofessor
Dr. Sauer-Zavala is Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with people struggling with borderline personality disorder. She is also an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky (UK) where she develops new treatments for common mental health conditions and tests them in rigorous clinical trials.
Dr. Sauer-Zavala is the lead developer of a short-term intervention personality difficulties to address common mental health problems – COMPASS (cognitive behavioral modules for personality symptoms).
ATtendees Can Expect....
Educational Objectives
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Learning Objective one
Participants will be able to articulate a case conceptualization for borderline personality disorder based on the personality dimensions that maintain symptoms of this condition: negative affect, antagonism, and disinhibition
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Learning Objective TWO
Participants will be able to describe strategies to customize the delivery of BPD Compass based on the presentation of individual patients.
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Learning Objective THREE
Participants will be able to describe the application of therapeutic components of BPD Compass with patients with BPD and commonly occurring conditions