Living with trichotillomania comes with its challenges. Embracing mindfulness and grounding techniques can be a valuable addition to your toolkit.
How Grounding Benefits Those with Trichotillomania: You will be guided through a meditation to help you reconnect your mind and body with the present moment, helping you to reduce stress and anxiety, enhance self-awareness, allowing you to observe triggers and responses without judgment; and improve emotional regulation.

Join us on October 26th at 12 p.m. EST for our upcoming webinar, Compulsions and How to Deal with Them, hosted by our Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Sofia Wenzler. There will be a Q&A session at the end of the webinar, so stay till the end for that.

Join us on October 23rd, 7 p.m. EST for our upcoming FAQ session. This is your opportunity to get expert answers to your burning questions about BFRBs in general and hair pulling in particular.

Join us on October 18th, 1 p.m. EST for a candid conversation with Kim Hastings. Kim Hastings, a content creator who has been living with a BFRB since the age of 13. She'll discuss her personal journey, including the challenges she's faced and the strategies she's employed to successfully manage her BFRB. Kim's authenticity, resilience and determination are truly inspiring, and her story is a testament to the power of perseverance.

Join us on October 16th, 12 p.m. EST for our upcoming Mindfulness Meditation Workshop. Maya, your host, will guide you through a meditation that will help you increase self-awareness, emotional regulation, impulse control, and stress reduction.

Tune into the first webinar of our series on BFRBs and depression on September 19th at 12PM EST. We will go through facts and myths about depression, look at the similarities and differences between depression and BFRBs and discover how CBT can help improve symptoms. There will be a Q&A at the end so make sure to stick around for that. We hope to see you there.

Tune into our webinar on August 21 at 12PM EST. Discover cutting-edge solutions and groundbreaking advancements in managing Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs). Join us to explore how technology is revolutionizing support, self-awareness, and coping strategies. There will be a Q&A at the end so make sure to stick around for that. We hope to see you there.

Tune into our webinar on July 26 at 12PM EST. We will discuss the latest research about the genetics of skin picking and hair pulling disorders. We will discuss recent findings and implications for treatment. There will be a Q&A at the end so make sure to stick around for that. We hope to see you there.

Tune into our webinar on June 29 at 12PM EST. We will discuss skin picking and hair pulling disorders among children and adolescents. We will discuss treatments and implications. There will be a Q&A at the end so make sure to stick around for that. We hope to see you there.

We will discuss the latest research about the neurobiology of skin picking and hair pulling disorders. We will discuss recent findings and implications for treatment. There will be a Q&A at the end so make sure to stick around for that. We hope to see you there.

This month’s webinar will be led by Rachel Pope. Rachel will be interviewing Michelle, who has participated in an earlier webinar. Michelle’s inspiring story of overcoming BFRBs was very helpful to our audience, and we are happy to have her back. Michelle and Rachel will discuss similarities and differences in their experiences with skin picking and hair pulling respectively. They will discuss their journeys and will share some advice with others. We hope to see you there!

We're doing something different this month! Our therapist Laura Santner will talk about poetry therapy and how you may use it to deal with BFRBs. Laura will be available for a Q&A after the webinar so you'll be able to have all your questions answered.

This month, we'll compare OCD and BFRBs - their clinical presentation, scientific studies and treatment options. We outline what makes them similar and what makes them different and, most importantly, implications for treatment.

Self-soothing is often mentioned as the mechanism behind hair pulling and in this webinar, we will explore exactly what self-soothing is, what its purpose is, and how we can go about achieving it in healthier ways.

A fully practical webinar where you will learn breathing exercises and grounding exercises to help you deal with urges to pull

Pulling just the right hair sometimes means finding the right texture. Feeling a texture can be incredibly satisfying. Have you ever wondered why? Tune in to our webinar in September and learn about sensory processing and hair pulling.

You've managed to reduce your pulling or even stop. Then what? How do you make sure to keep the progress you've made? Tune in for our August webinar to learn more about relapse prevention for hair pulling.

This month, we'll consider different ways to help your hair grow back faster. After the webinar, we'll have our regular Q&A where you can ask any questions you may have about trichotillomania.

This month, you've chosen to learn more about boredom. A common trigger for hair pulling and a topic that's been on your wishlist for a while, in June you'll be able to hear a whole webinar on it. Dr. Miletic will talk about what boredom is, why it triggers and what to do about it.

In May, we will discuss expectations from treatment. Setting realistic expectations is more difficult than it may first seem. If you aim too high, you're risking failure, if you aim too low, you risk not being happy with the progress you're making. The question we will try to address is how to find the middle ground: how to set expectations that will lead to best outcomes and sustainable progress?

For our April webinar you chose to talk about intense urges and different techniques that can be used to alleviate them. Dr. Miletic will present a few practical techniques that you can use to help yourself when the urge to pull starts to overtake you. As usual, the webinar will be followed up with a Q&A.

This month, we are talking about discipline as means of dealing with trich in a reliable and sustainable way. In this webinar, Dr. Miletic juxtaposes discipline to willpower and discusses advantages and disadvantages of both. Practical exercises are discussed to get you started.
 

This month, our webinar talked about PTSD and how it relates to, causes or additionally triggers hair pulling.
 

The is the QA session of the Feb 2022 webinar

We're starting 2022 with a fundamental topic: deciding to change. When our first step is shaky, the rest of the journey won't be smooth sailing either. Learn about different reasons why people run into trouble when they think about stopping pulling, and use these as point of reflection to help you grow and overcome the obstacles you're facing now.
 

This is a recording of the Q&A session after our January 2022 webinar.

In our November 2021 webinar, Dr. Vladimir Miletic will guide you through different stages of habit reversal training for hair pulling and explain how to guide yourself through the process. Check out our web site for a FREE guide!
 

This is the recording of the Q&A session from our November 2021 webinar.
 

Our webinar viewers chose to hear our Clinical Lead talk about some principles of ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and how to use these to combat hair pulling.
 

This is the Q&A part of our October 2021 webinar.
 

This month, our Clinical Lead, Dr. Miletic is discussing how hair pulling impacts self-image and - vice versa - how negative self image reinforces and help maintain pulling.
 

This is the second part of our September webinar that contains the Q&A part.
 

This month, Dr. Vladimir Miletic talked on the subject of neuroplasticity, habit formation and hair pulling, the topic you voted on last month. He discuses practical implications and offers tips on how to approach change and what to expect.
 

This is the Q&A part of our August webinar, where Dr. Miletic answered your questions related to this month's topic.
 

In our July webinar, Dr. Vladimir Miletic talks about the potential benefits of practicing mindfulness of the body for people who struggle with hair pulling. The webinar also includes a brief guided body scan.
 

In our webinar for June 2021, our Clinical Lead, Dr. Vladimir Miletic talked about different pharmacological treatment options, based on the limited data we have from current research. At the end of the webinar, psychotherapy is compared to pharmacological options.
 

In our May 2021 webinar, Dr. Vladimir Miletic talked about the relationship between guilt and hair pulling.
 

This is the Q&A part of our May 2021 webinar.

In our March 2021 webinar our Clinical Lead, Dr. Vladimir Miletic talked about triggers - what are they, how they operate and why they trigger us in the first place. The webinar focuses on the psychological rather than behavioral aspects of treatment and its goal is to give you a nudge to think about hair pulling in more introspective terms. The Q&A part of the webinar is uploaded separately.
 

The Q&A section of our March 2021 webinar.
 

In our February 2021 webinar, our psychotherapist Dr. Vladimir Miletic will talk about anxiety, its meaning, psychological relevance and connections to hair pulling. Anxiety managed will be addressed and resources provided to live webinar participants.
 

This is the recording of the 2nd part of February 2021 webinar on anxiety and hair pulling.

Our January webinar is dedicated to perfectionism and its different facets that may lead to hair pulling. Our psychotherapist Dr. Vladimir Miletic explores perfectionism from different points of view - psychoanalytic, cognitive, constructivist and makes their insights and solutions accessible.
 

Second part of our January 2021 webinar on perfectionism. This video contains only the Q&A portion.
 

In December, Dr Vladimir Miletic talks about experiential avoidance and how avoiding difficult emotions and memories may lead to hair pulling.
 

Our December webinar dealt with avoidance and specifically how avoiding difficult emotions leads to hair pulling. This is the second part of the webinar where Dr. Miletic answered questions from participants.
 

Our November webinar is dedicated to habit reversal training (HRT). HRT is a behavioral intervention that helps you cope with pulling. Here, our therapist dr. Vladimir Miletic lays out the basics and helps you get started.
 

This is the second part of our webinar. The topic for November was HRT and this is the Q&A portion of the webinar.

In October, our psychotherapist Dr. Vladimir Miletic will talk about hair pulling "trances", those long and difficult to manage episodes of pulling.

This is the second part of our October webinar where Dr. Miletic answered the questions you had about hair pulling, "trances", our program and anything else that you were curious to know.
 

This month, Dr. Vladimir Miletic will talk about the psychology of habit formation. This first part is a recording of his lecture on how we form new habits and what is the best approach to introduce new competing responses in order to replace hair pulling.
 

This is the second part of the September webinar where Dr. Vladimir is answering your questions about hair pulling.
 

In our August webinar, Dr. Vladimir Miletic will talk about mindfulness and different ways that you can benefit from introducing it as a regular practice in your life. He outlines different effects of sustained mindfulness practice and their use for the treatment of trichotillomania.
 

This is the recording of TrichStop's August 2020 webinar on mindfulness, the Q&A section.
 

In our July webinar, our therapist Dr. Vladimir Miletic will talk about emotions - why they arise, how to understand them and how to cope with them as they become more intense.
 

This is the second part of our July webinar.

The following video is a recording of our ongoing webinar series on hair pulling. Our topic in June was meaning and psychology behind hair pulling. Dr. Vladimir Miletic talked about role, function and meaning of symptoms in trichotillomania. A theoretical introduction is followed by a case study through which you can see psychology in action.
 

This is the second part of our June webinar on the psychology of hair pulling. This is the Q&A portion.
 

In this lecture, our psychotherapist Dr. Vladimir Miletic is discussing some neurobiological findings in trichotillomania research, and talks about their implications for psychotherapy. His lecture is followed by a Q&A.