Courses and Coaching
Education and Personalized Support for BDD Recovery 
Living with body dysmorphic disorder can affect your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, relationships, and everyday life.
You may want to understand BDD better. You may be looking for practical strategies you can use on your own. Or you may already know a great deal about BDD but want personalized help putting recovery skills into practice.
Fear to Courage offers courses and coaching to help you understand BDD, develop practical recovery skills, and take meaningful steps toward a life that is less controlled by BDD.
Explore the options below to find the type of education or support that may be most useful to you.
🧠Not Sure Where to Begin?
Different types of support may be helpful at different points in BDD recovery.
The free Fear to Courage Recovery Compass™ is a brief educational self-assessment designed for people who already recognize they have BDD.
The Compass can help you identify your current support needs and consider possible next steps in four areas:
- Learn — understand BDD and recovery
- Practice — develop and use recovery skills
- Connect — find support and reduce isolation
- Stabilize — recognize when additional professional support may be important
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🤝 Personalized Coaching
Work One-on-One With Dr. Eva
Sometimes knowing what to do isn’t the same as being able to do it when BDD takes over.
Private BDD coaching gives you individualized support based on where you are in your recovery, what’s getting in your way, and what you would most like to change.
Coaching can help you:
- Identify thoughts, emotions, rituals, and avoidance patterns that are keeping you stuck
- Reduce behaviors such as mirror checking, comparing, reassurance seeking, and camouflaging
- Prepare for situations that trigger your BDD
- Apply CBT, ERP, and other recovery strategies in everyday life
- Set meaningful recovery goals and take realistic steps toward them
- Get additional support, problem-solving, and accountability
Dr. Eva experienced BDD herself for approximately 15 years and has been recovered for more than 20 years. She combines her professional knowledge of BDD with lived experience and practical recovery strategies.
đź’ś Coaching for Caregivers of People With BDD
Supporting someone with BDD can be difficult and confusing. You may want to help but be unsure what to say, how to respond to reassurance seeking or avoidance, or when helping may unintentionally reinforce BDD.
Caregiver coaching provides individualized support for parents, partners, family members and friends of people with BDD.
Depending on your situation, coaching can help you:
- Better understand BDD and what your loved one may be experiencing
- Learn more helpful ways to respond to BDD thoughts and behaviors
- Recognize reassurance and accommodation patterns
- Communicate with your loved one about BDD and recovery
- Navigate challenges around treatment and getting help
- Set appropriate boundaries while remaining supportive
- Cope with your own stress, frustration, and uncertainty
- Consider practical next steps for your particular family situation
You don’t have to figure out how to support someone with BDD on your own.
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đź“š Coping With Body Dysmorphic Disorder Course
Learn Practical Strategies for Managing BDD
BDD can create a difficult cycle of negative thoughts, emotional distress, rituals, and avoidance.
The Coping with BDD Course provides education and practical strategies to help you better understand these patterns and begin responding to them differently.
Topics include strategies for:
- Coping with difficult BDD thoughts and emotions
- Reducing BDD rituals and unhelpful behaviors
- Managing mirror use and avoidance
- Dealing with fear and anxiety
- Practicing self-care and self-compassion
- Using mindfulness and other coping strategies
- Applying recovery skills in everyday life
The course provides a structured way to learn about BDD recovery and develop skills you can continue practicing over time.
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đź’» Learn at Your Own Pace
Fear to Courage Online Courses
Fear to Courage also offers self-guided educational courses covering topics that can be helpful during BDD recovery and for managing anxiety and difficult emotions.
Topics include:
- Understanding BDD
- Managing intrusive thoughts
- Challenging negative core beliefs
- Coping with anxiety
- Developing confidence
- Self-compassion
- Facing fears
- Handling setbacks
- Building courage in everyday life
Self-guided courses allow you to explore the topics that are most relevant to you and work through the material on your own schedule.
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🌱 Which Option Is Right for You?
There isn’t one right way to get support.
- If you want personalized help: Explore BDD Coaching for individualized guidance, recovery planning, and accountability.
- If you’re supporting someone with BDD: Explore Caregiver Coaching for individualized guidance in understanding BDD, responding to difficult situations, and supporting your loved one while also taking care of yourself.
- If you want structured BDD education: Explore the Coping with BDD Course for practical recovery strategies and skills.
- If you prefer self-guided learning: Explore the Fear to Courage Online Courses and choose topics that are relevant to you.
- If you’re not sure what you need right now: Start with the free Recovery Compass™ to identify your current support needs and possible next steps.
You may also use more than one type of support at different points in your recovery.
Take Your Next Step
Recovery is not the same for everyone. Your next step can depend on what you’re struggling with, what you’ve already learned, and the type of support that would be most useful to you right now.
Explore the courses and coaching options above and choose the next step that fits where you are today.