Bia and the Center for Anxiety and Behavior Therapy have Partnered!

I am extremely excited to announce today that Bia has partnered with the Center for Anxiety and Behavior Therapy, or CABT for short. They are the first organization in history, as far as I can find, that offers therapist continuing education units on the topic of emetophobia specifically. I was jumping out of my chair when I found their website and the resources they offered. They've formed The Emetophobia Institute, a practice offering workshops for individuals and parents, and training for clinicians. The Emetophobia Institute is run by Dr. David Yusko and Dara Lovitz, two people who understand emetophobia extremely well.

Dara is an emetophobic in recovery and was in fact a client of Dr. Yusko. They've combined their two unique perspectives of emetophobia into helpful resources for individuals, parents, and clinicians. They have a book together call Gag Reflections, which I recommend due to this unique and powerful duel perspective. Last year, I took Bia to them and I was happy to find their mission was the same as mine: To make emetophobia recovery easier and more accessible.

We've kicked off our partnership with some exciting work coming soon. First, providers signing up for Bia can get a discount to the CABT's trainings. Bia's provider portal combined with the expert instruction from The Emetophobia Institute mean that no clinician needs to be concerned or confused about treating emetophobia. Second, we've kicked off research to raise awareness about emetophobia and inform clinicians on the signs and proper treatment. Finally, we are developing a new clinician directory for providers to advertise their expertise in emetophobia, helping clients find therapists who know and understand emetophobia. Not to mention, their feedback and expertise continues to shape and improve the tools in Bia, helping individuals take recovery into their own hands at an affordable cost.

It's always been extremely important to me that Bia was built correctly, safely, and with the partnership of experts. This partnership with CABT is solid confirmation of that mission, and I am so excited about the work to come. In 2025, I am absolutely confident that more people will learn about emetophobia, get help, and feel better, than ever before.

If you are suffering from emetophobia, there has never been a better time to start recovery. Get started in 5 minutes with Bia, or sign up for an affordable workshop with The Emetophobia Institute.

If you are a clinician, it's important to understand emetophobia is one of the most common and debilitating specific phobias impacting almost 1 in 12 individuals. Most individuals with emetophobia go decades without treatment. Emetophobia treatment is often unique, in that it is not the same as other specific phobias and typically requires a slower, more incremental approach similar to OCD. Bia provides you an easy tool to assign ERP homework, with pre-made curated exposure hierarchies and guiderails that prevent over exposure and resulting drop-outs. The CABT provides you continuing education units on a disorder that is so common, that mentioning it on your website will likely result in a wait list of clients in need.

If you work in a school or in-patient clinic, Bia is a massively cost effective way to get your kids back in school and free from their phobia. Bia provides step-by-step incremental exposure with resources and training for parents and a dashboard with automatically charted progress.

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