You don’t have to keep fighting urges on your own.
This work is compassionate, collaborative, and grounded in helping you feel more in control, less alone, and more at ease in your body and daily life.
Serving clients across CA, ID, OR and FL.
If you’ve ever felt frustrated, embarrassed, or alone because of skin picking or hair pulling, you’re not the only one.
You might find yourself picking or pulling almost automatically during moments of stress, boredom, anxiety, or even when you’re trying to relax. Maybe you’ve promised yourself you’d stop, tried to use willpower, or hidden the behavior from others, only to feel discouraged when it keeps happening.
Many people with BFRBs feel a lot of shame around their behaviors. You might worry about how it looks, what it says about you, or why it feels so hard to control. And when others don’t understand or minimize it as a “bad habit”, it can leave you feeling misunderstood and isolated.
What you’re experiencing makes sense. Skin picking and hair pulling are not flaws or failures, they’re signals that something in your system is trying to cope. You deserve support that understands this, without judgment or pressure.
Through working together, many of my clients begin to notice meaningful shifts such as a better understanding of their urges.
Instead of feeling confused or controlled by urges, you start to recognize patterns, triggers, and signals in your body without self-blame.
You may feel less shame and self-criticism. Therapy helps loosen the cycle of guilt, secrecy, and frustration, replacing it with compassion and understanding.
Urges may still arise, but they feel less automatic. You gain more space to pause and respond differently.As awareness and regulation improve, many clients experience fewer urges or find them easier to manage.
I will teach you practical, supportive strategies that help interrupt patterns without relying on forcing yourself to “just stop.” Many of my clients feel more settled, grounded, and at ease, rather than constantly on edge or self-monitoring.
Over time, the behaviors take up less mental and emotional space, allowing you to feel more confident and present in your life.
Change is possible.
You don’t have to feel controlled by the urges to pick or pull because change is possible.
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Compassionate, nonjudgmental support for skin picking and hair pulling without shame or pressure.
FAQs
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Yes. Skin picking and hair pulling are known as body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs). They’re recognized mental health conditions, not bad habits or signs of weak willpower. These behaviors are often ways the nervous system copes with stress, anxiety, or uncomfortable sensations.
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BFRBs are often automatic and body-based, meaning they can happen without conscious intention. Willpower alone usually isn’t enough. Therapy focuses on understanding triggers, patterns, and nervous system responses so change becomes more possible and less frustrating.
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The goal of therapy isn’t perfection. For many clients, progress looks like fewer urges, less intensity, more awareness, and greater ability to interrupt patterns. Just as importantly, therapy helps reduce shame and distress, even as behavior change happens gradually.