BFRB Therapist Boot Camp
Learn to Treat Skin Picking, Hair Pulling, and other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) in this Self-Paced Online Course.
Help an Underserved Population
1 in 20 people struggle with a BFRB and there is a major shortage of therapists trained to treat them. Therefore thousands of people are suffering with a BFRB and cannot find a therapist to treat them.
Develop a Niche
Build your caseload by developing this much-needed niche. Therapists who have a unique specialty area are in high demand and can charge more for their services. You will not need to struggle to fill your caseload, and will make more per hour.
Earn 5 CEUs
Through 9 recorded training videos that you can access anytime, as well as articles to read and handouts to use with your clients, you will earn 5 continuing education units that have been approved by the Missouri Credentialing Board (which most other state boards will approve as well).
If you have tried to treat BFRBs with little to no success, you are not alone. The path to freeing someone from the suffering caused by their BFRB is not common knowledge, and most therapists have never learned how to treat these disorders in graduate school or post-graduate training.
I’m Laura Chackes, a licensed psychologist who has specialized in treating BFRBs for over 17 years and have helped hundreds of children, teens, and adults with BFRBs to transform their lives by gaining control of the behaviors.
I used to think that recovery from these disorders was not possible. However, I was excited to discover that through the right combination of strategies and mindset shifts, anyone who wants to recover and is willing to work hard can do it.
So I now train therapists just like you how to take your patients with BFRBs from that place of utter frustration and desperation because nothing they’ve tried has worked, to a place where they feel at peace because the BFRB is no longer in control.
"My client has truly enjoyed and looked forward to the material that I share with her and reports a significant decrease in her skin picking. I cannot even tell she was ever a picker any longer."
Online Course Participant
Therapist
"It was really helpful to me and my clients! I'm very glad I had this training. I can't think of any improvements except to have some of the meditation scripts available for downloading. However, Laura gave a lot of great resources and presented information very clearly and compassionately. I definitely would recommend this course to other therapists!!"
Online Course Participant
Therapist
Program Details:
- 12 pre-recorded videos with a total of 5 hours of instruction that you will have access to forever via a secure website, app, or by downloading the material
- A private Facebook group just for course participants and those who have completed the course (moderated by Dr. Chackes) to share with each other in a more private, intimate setting to gain support and stay accountable with course homework
- A CEU Certificate will be provided upon completion of the course at no extra charge.
Course Outline:
- Learn what BFRBs are (and are NOT), while getting yourself setup to gain as much as possible from this course.
- Learn how to assess for BFRBs and get set up for successful treatment.
- Learn effective communication strategies around how you talk to children, teens, and adults about their BFRB, as well as how to instruct parents to communicate with their children with BFRBs.
- Learn to create effective reward systems to help incentivize your clients to do the hard work involved, including how to overcome common barriers to receiving rewards.
- Learn how to instruct your clients to start a regular mindfulness practice to gain awareness, focus, stress reduction, and management of any emotional contributors to their BFRB.
- Learn how to teach your clients how to become more aware of when they’re doing the BFRB by identifying their specific triggers, thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that lead to or exacerbate their BFRB through tracking.
- Develop a plan of effective tools specifically designed for your client based on how, when, and why they do the behaviors.
- Learn how to help your clients consistently sit with their urges and not act on them for increasingly longer periods of time.
- Learn how to help your clients accept and love themselves even if they are not able (or don’t want to) completely stop the behavior through self-compassion.
- Help your clients gradually face feared situations and people so that they are no longer avoiding any of the things that they want to have in their life.
- Learn how to help them keep up their successes over time with a relapse prevention plan.
Ready to get started?
The full cost of this course with over 5 hours of material that you have access to forever, 5 CEUs, and online support and coaching, is $299. So, if you're interested in helping this underserved population and increasing your caseload with this effective, evidence-based approach, join now!
