A clinician-founded resource for body-focused process addictions.

Chaille DeFaria is a Mental Health Consultant and ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) who specializes in helping people heal from BFPAs™ (Body-Focused Process Addictions). Her work also focuses on increasing awareness of the ways behavioral addiction can be intertwined with anxiety, perfectionism, and shame.

As co-founder of the BFPA™ Resource Center and a former longtime member of the Board of Directors of the TLC Foundation for BFRBs, Chaille has been deeply committed to advocacy, education, and effective behavioral treatment. She is also a Daring Way™ Trained Facilitator in Dr. Brené Brown’s research, leading workshops and working individually with young adults and parents. She has presented at conferences, including NAMI, and coaches at BetterUp, where Brené Brown serves on the Science Board.

In addition to her consulting and coaching work, Chaille is a writer. She wrote a monthly column for Culver City Neighbors magazine titled Cultivating Courage with Chaille. Her forthcoming book, I Can’t Get to Perfect, is a memoir about her life with BFPAs™—how they began, and how she has lived with and worked to heal from them.

Karen Pickett, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and co-founder of the BFPA™ Resource Center. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and Body Focused Process Addictions (BFPAs™), including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Skin Picking Disorder, and Trichotillomania. As an expert in behavioral addiction, Karen is a Certified Trauma and Addiction therapist and a former member of the TLC Foundation for BFRBs Board of Directors. She has been featured as a psychotherapist on A&E's series Obsessed, served as faculty in counseling psychology at USM, and held the position of Clinical Director at the OCD Center of Los Angeles. Karen has also co-produced three performances of This Is My Brave™, a live show aimed at ending the stigma surrounding mental illness.