Abigail Rasol

Abigail is a host of the Carlat Psychotherapy Podcast. She completed her undergraduate education in Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Montclair State University, and is an aspiring clinical psychology doctoral student. Currently, she is a research assistant at the Laboratory of Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy Research at Pennsylvania State University, the Treatment and Assessment of Personality Pathology Lab at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and the Laboratory for Dynamic Processes of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy at Bar-Ilan University. Abigail's research focuses on personality pathology, especially Borderline and Narcissistic personality disorders, and psychotherapy process and outcome, including mechanisms of therapeutic transformation and obstacles that cause treatment resistance. In addition to her research, Abigail works on an inpatient adolescent unit at New York Presbyterian-Westchester Behavioral Health Center, which has informed her interest in development psychopathology and early interventions for mental illness. She is passionate about improving clinician understanding of the developmental roots and mechanisms of change underlying psychopathology and advancing the effectiveness and accessibility of interventions for those historically marginalized in treatment research.

Expert Q&A

Crossing the Alphabet Divide: An Integrative Overview of BPD Treatments with Dr. Kenneth Levy

November 13, 2025

Kenneth N. Levy, PhD and Abigail Rasol

Kenneth Levy, PhD. Professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program and the Psychology Department at Pennsylvania State University, Director of the Laboratory for Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy Research, adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, attending psychologist at the Payne Whitney Clinic and Westchester Campus of The New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Personality Disorders Institute (PDI)

Abigail Rasol, research assistant at the Laboratory of Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy Research at Pennsylvania State University, the Treatment and Assessment of Personality Pathology Lab at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and the Laboratory for Dynamic Processes of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy at Bar-Ilan University

Dr. Levy and Ms. Rasol have no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Dr. Kenneth Levy provides an overview of the major evidence-based treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder and explains why clinicians shouldn’t limit themselves to just one model. Despite their different styles, these treatments share core elements and similar effectiveness, and Dr. Levy makes the case that therapists best serve patients when they understand multiple approaches and remain flexible in how they use them.