Volunteer Peer Support Group Facilitator – Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

Volunteer Peer Support Group Facilitator – Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Organisation: International Association for Body Dysmorphic Disorder (IABDD)
Reference: IABDD-VPSF-01
Sector: Mental Health, Peer Support, Community
Location: Remote (UK-based)
Salary / Benefits: Volunteer Role (with ongoing training, supervision, and CPD opportunities)
Contract Type: Part-Time Volunteer (Flexible Commitment: 1-2 hrs/week)
Closing Date: Ongoing Applications Accepted

The Role

This is more than a volunteering role. It’s a lifeline. We’re seeking brave, compassionate, and grounded individuals to help us co-create safer spaces for those living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), appearance based distress, and concerns regading body-image.

As a Volunteer Peer Support Group Facilitator for IABDD CIC, you’ll be helping to hold our online support groups with warmth, steadiness, and hope. You’ll be walking alongside people who feel unseen by systems, and supporting them to speak without shame.

Our groups are identity-safe spaces - free from shame, free from performance, rooted in trauma-informed recovery. Each session is a place where masks can come off, and stories can be heard in full colour.

You’ll be fully trained and supported within our BDD D.E.F.E.N.C.E. Model framework for trauma-informed group support. This isn’t just facilitation. It’s relational recovery in action.

Your Role Will Include:

• Holding weekly or fortnightly online peer support groups
• Gently guiding conversations using IABDD’s trauma-informed resources
• Creating emotional safety, protecting boundaries, and signposting when needed
• Encouraging voice, visibility and self-compassion in those navigating BDD
• Collaborating with the IABDD team to feedback lived experience insights

About You

We’re not looking for perfection. We’re looking for heart, steadiness, and emotional resonance.

You may have lived experience of BDD or identity-based distress, or you may come from a therapeutic, coaching, or support background. What matters most is that you’re able to show up with relational integrity.

You Will:

• Be able to hold emotional space with warmth, steadiness, and trauma-informed care
• Have experience of group dynamics, peer support, or emotional holding (formal or informal)
• Be reflective, emotionally intelligent, and relationally attuned
• Commit to ongoing supervision and training through IABDD
• Be passionate about changing the conversation around BDD

We particularly welcome applications from individuals who are:

• In active recovery from BDD (min. 12 months into recovery)
• From marginalised communities (including LGBTQIA+, global majority, neurodivergent, or disabled individuals)
• Looking to build experience in mental health, community care, or facilitation

Why Volunteer With Us?

• Because recovery isn’t meant to be done alone. And neither is advocacy.
• You’ll be joining a global movement grounded in lived experience, clinical insight, and relational activism.

You’ll receive:

• CPD-accredited training in trauma-informed group facilitation
• Ongoing supervision from our clinical and coaching team
• Access to the wider IABDD facilitator network
• Opportunities to contribute to national and global advocacy campaigns

Ready to Apply?

Please send your CV and a short supporting statement (max 2 pages) outlining:

Why this role speaks to you

Any lived or professional experience with BDD or identity-based trauma

Your approach to holding emotional space in groups

We honour difference. We celebrate recovery. And we know that the power of peer support lies not in perfection - but in presence.

To apply, email: info@iabdd.org
Subject Line: Volunteer Peer Support Facilitator Application

Let’s make the unseen visible. Let’s hold space for healing. Together.