Karen Pickett, LMFT

Karen Pickett is a licensed psychotherapist and the co-founder of The BFPA Resource Center. She is an expert in the treatment of anxiety disorders and body-focused process addictions (BFPAs), including Panic Disorder, Health Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Skin Picking Disorder and Trichotillomania. Previously, Karen was the Clinical Director of the OCD Center of Los Angeles and Faculty in Counseling Psychology at the University of Santa Monica. Karen was a featured psychotherapist on A&E’s acclaimed TV series Obsessed and appeared on CBS’s The Doctors, Dateline NBC, Discovery Health Channel, and in numerous print, web and magazine articles.

Internship, Therapist and Clinical Director at OCDLA. Numerous conference presentations and CEU’s over the years. Co-founded the Body Focused Process Addiction (BFPA™) Resource Center. 25 years experience including Professional Memberships in IOCDF and the TLC Foundation for BFRBs.