BDD Coaching
Get Personalized Help for Your Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Dr. Eva will provide you with hope that recovery is possible and help so you can overcome your Body Dysmorphic Disorder symptoms.
Learn how to battle the shame, depression, and anxiety you feel about your appearance. You can successfully cope with and overcome BDD, facial dysmorphia, and body dysmorphia using proven strategies. Dr. Eva recovered from BDD more than 20 years ago. She specializes in helping people with BDD overcome their symptoms.
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Here is a list of activities that may take place during Dr. Eva’s one-on-one private coaching sessions. All coaching sessions are tailored to each person’s individual BDD challenges and goals for recovery.
Your personal experiences with BDD
Dr. Eva will ask about your personal struggles with BDD, including obsessive thoughts, negative feelings, and compulsive behaviors related to your appearance.
Therapy for BDD and related disorders
Do you have other mental health conditions such as OCD, depression, eating disorders, or social anxiety, in addition to BDD? Getting help from a trauma therapist or other treatment professionals for these disorders may be recommended to supplement BDD coaching.
Social and family experiences
Dr. Eva may ask about your previous experiences with childhood bullying, teasing, abuse, your family’s focus on appearance, and societal messages about beauty and physical appearance.
Education about possible causes for BDD symptoms
Dr. Eva will provide information about possible causes for BDD. BDD may result from a distortion in the way a person’s brain processes visual information, along with genetics, individual personality traits, and environmental factors.
Understand how BDD has impacted your life
Clients are asked to list the ways in which your focus on appearance has negatively impacted your life. People with BDD usually have a lower quality of life than individuals with other chronic medical and psychiatric conditions.
Visualize your life without BDD
Clients are asked to imagine life without BDD and to make a list of what would be different after overcoming BDD symptoms.
Make a list of your long-term and short-term goals
Clients are asked to identify a major life goal and smaller goals that would help them to reach that goal. Clients can then develop plans to accomplish the smaller or reachable goals during BDD coaching sessions.
Complete a pro/con list of getting well
Clients can develop a list of the pros and cons of getting well. What potential setbacks might you face and how could you overcome them?
No reassurance seeking about perceived appearance flaws
Individuals with BDD may seek reassurance from others that they look okay. You may discuss and share your appearance concerns during coaching sessions without seeking reassurance.
Willingness to discuss cosmetic surgery
Some individuals with BDD frequently think about or seek cosmetic and dermatological procedures. Dr. Eva is open to discussing these thoughts and behaviors. Discussing your desire for surgery does not mean she is condoning getting any cosmetic or dermatological procedures.