Community Stories

Tammy Fletcher: Determined to make a Difference

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness   I’m a licensed psychotherapist in San Diego, California, and my practice has specialized in treating Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors since 2008. I...

Tammy Fletcher: Determined to make a Difference

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness   I’m a licensed psychotherapist in San Diego, California, and my practice has specialized in treating Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors since 2008. I...

Marla Deibler & Renae Reinardy: The BFRB Treatm...

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness Marla Deibler, PsyD, ABPP is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Board-Certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, and CEO of The Center for Emotional...

Marla Deibler & Renae Reinardy: The BFRB Treatm...

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness Marla Deibler, PsyD, ABPP is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Board-Certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, and CEO of The Center for Emotional...

Mallory M.: Studying Skin-Picking Stigma

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness If you told me six months ago that I would want to study stigmatizing attitudes towards people with skin-picking disorder for my...

Mallory M.: Studying Skin-Picking Stigma

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness If you told me six months ago that I would want to study stigmatizing attitudes towards people with skin-picking disorder for my...

Becca Schneider: Transforming Trich Into Theatre

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness I wrote a play about trich. I spent the global pandemic devising a solo show about my most shameful secret, and since...

Becca Schneider: Transforming Trich Into Theatre

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness I wrote a play about trich. I spent the global pandemic devising a solo show about my most shameful secret, and since...

Hazuki S.: I’ll make an organization for BFRBs,...

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness I have trichotillomania and sometimes scratch my body.  It started when I was 10 years old.  I'm 24 now, so I've had...

Hazuki S.: I’ll make an organization for BFRBs,...

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness I have trichotillomania and sometimes scratch my body.  It started when I was 10 years old.  I'm 24 now, so I've had...

Katie Webster: I used my own experience of livi...

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness When I was accepted onto the clinical psychology doctorate training programme at the University of Surrey in 2021, unlike many of my...

Katie Webster: I used my own experience of livi...

100 Changemakers for 100 days of BFRB Awareness When I was accepted onto the clinical psychology doctorate training programme at the University of Surrey in 2021, unlike many of my...