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Live Webinar Event: April 11, 2025 at 10am EST

    1. A Practical Approach to Treating BFRBs in Young Children: A Clinician’s Guide

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About this course

  • $35.00
  • CE Credits: 1.0 hours
  • Live Interactive Webinar
  • Level: Beginning - Introductory

About This Course

Treating Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs), such as hair-pulling, skin-picking, and nail-biting, in children presents unique challenges, requiring clinicians to navigate complex developmental, emotional, behavioral, and family dynamics. This presentation will equip attendees with the latest evidence-based tools to overcome these challenges. Attendees will explore strategies to help children understand their behavior patterns, identify triggers, and build intervention skills and strategies through fun, engaging, and age-appropriate activities. Emphasis will be placed on how to communicate compassionately with parents, fostering their understanding of BFRBs, reducing stigma, and encouraging supportive environments. Additionally, the presentation will address the importance of tailoring interventions to individual needs and considering diversity factors, such as cultural background, family values, and developmental considerations, to ensure effective and inclusive care.

This is a live, interactive webinar event that will take place on April 11, 2025 at 10am EST.  


A portion of the proceeds of this training is donated to BFRB Changemakers. BFRB Changemakers non-profit (EIN #93-1544492) supports BFRB healing through community. Through the BFRB Changemakers Training Academy we strive to increase access to care by offering Continuing Education training to new and seasoned mental health treatment professionals. For more information about the organization, visit bfrbchangemakers.org.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify strategies for promoting a healthy self-image in children with BFRBs by addressing any underlying feelings of shame, fostering self-acceptance and building resilience.

  • Describe age-appropriate, engaging activities to help children understand their BFRBs, identify triggers, strategies and skills, while ensuring interventions are tailored to individual needs and developmental stages.

  • Describe strategies to enhance communication with parents to foster understanding of BFRBs, reduce stigma, and promote a supportive, culturally sensitive environment that encourages collaboration in managing and preventing BFRBs.


Instructor(s)

Jennifer Gola, PsyD

Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Jennifer Gola (Bagwell) is a licensed psychologist and supervising psychologist at The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia. She specializes in the treatment of OCD, anxiety disorders, and OC-spectrum disorders in children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Gola earned her Psy.D in clinical psychology at LaSalle University. She received specialized training in the treatment of OCD at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA) and the COTTAGe group at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gola joined CEH in 2014, where she provides individual therapy, supervises postdoctoral fellows, runs an adolescent OCD treatment group, and co-facilitates OCD and BFRB support groups. Dr. Gola’s and colleagues paper on ethical considerations in exposure therapy for children was published in 2016 in Cognitive and Behavioral Practice and she has presented on the topic with IOCDF and ADAA.

Renae Reinardy, PsyD

Director, Lakeside Center for Behavioral Change

Renae M. Reinardy, PsyD is a Licensed Psychologist and Director of the Lakeside Center for Behavioral Change. Dr. Reinardy specializes in the evidence-based treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Phobias, Hoarding Disorder, Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors, Tic Disorders, and related conditions. She is the Program Developer of CourageCritters.com, a skills-focused online and plush animal system. Dr. Reinardy serves on the BTTI Faculty for the International OCD Foundation. She is an advocate for childhood mental health and a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors.

Marla Deibler, PsyD. ABPP

Founder & CEO, The Center for Emotional Health

Marla Deibler, PsyD, ABPP is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Board-Certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, and Founder/Executive Director of The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia. Dr. Deibler serves on the Faculty of the Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) of the International OCD Foundation, the Board of Directors of OCD NJ - the NJ affiliate of the IOCDF, and on the Scientific Advisory Council of the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome. Dr. Deibler is a Visiting Clinical Supervisor at the Rutgers University Psychological Services Clinic, and an Executive Council member of the ACBS OCD SIG. She is co-author of The BFRB Recovery Workbook and writes for Psychology Today.

Course Approvals

  • The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC is not responsible to verify that American Psychological Association continuing education credits are approved by an attendee's respective state licensing Board.


  • The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0189. Provider Name:  The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC Address:  1910 Route 70, E, Suite 7, Cherry Hill, NJ  08003-2123 Email address: [email protected] 


  • The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No.7263. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.


  • The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC, #1820, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 6/15/2023 - 6/15/2026. 

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