The BFRB Workbook for Teens and Young Adults

Skin picking, hair pulling, and other BFRBs can feel isolating and hard to change. This workbook gives teens and young adults clear explanations, practical tools, and step-by-step strategies to build awareness, create new habits, and make lasting progress. – Katie K. May, LPC, Founder of Creative Healing Teen Support CentersA powerful, compassionate, and practical guide that speaks directly to teens and young adults with BFRBs. Through mindfulness-based strategies, Chackes and McKeaney offer real tools, real stories, and real hope - an empowering guide to insight, resilience, and lasting change. – Marla W. Deibler, PsyD, ABPP, Licensed Clinical Psychologist & CEO, The Center for Emotional Health, Co-Author of The BFRB Recovery Workbook and Free to be me with a BFRBThis practical workbook offers “you got this” support for teens and young adults with BFRBs, guiding them through a 10-week program to set intentions, build awareness, seek appropriate support, and identify intervention strategies to gain confidence on their road to recovery. – Dr. Renae Reinardy, Co-author of The BFRB Recovery Workbook and Free to Be Me with a BFRBThis book is invaluable for anyone attempting to recover from or better understand a BFRB. Dr. Chackes clearly elucidates the steps of her comprehensive program, while Ms. McKeaney provides complementary vignettes describing her personal journey in overcoming skin-picking disorder. – C. Alec Pollard, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Family & Community Medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Founding Director of the Center for OCD & Anxiety-Related Disorders at Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute

Laura Chackes, Psy.D., owner of The Center for Mindfulness & CBT, is a licensed psychologist specializing in the treatment of BFRBs. She has presented at several international conferences on group therapy for teens and adults with BFRBs, has run group therapy for BFRBs since 2012, and is researching her treatment approach at UCLA. She is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Lauren McKeaney is a silent-sufferer turned award-winning advocate of dermatillomania, founding the only skin picking disorder focused nonprofit, Picking Me Foundation, in 2016. As Picking Me’s CEO Lauren stands for recovering with, not from, mental illness, offering hope, help, and healing for dermatillomania worldwide. See her work in Vogue, Women’s Health, VICE, Dermatology Times and more. She is based in Chicago, Illinois.