Start Your ICBT Journey
If you’re here, you’re probably tired of fighting your OCD thoughts. Below, you’ll find ICBT resources for OCD, including a free guide, podcast, mini-course and group therapy options.
You might have tried traditional exposure therapy, or you’re looking for an approach that feels less overwhelming and more aligned with how your mind works.
Inference-Based CBT (ICBT) is different. Instead of learning to sit with uncertainty and discomfort, you’ll learn to recognize when your mind has jumped from observed reality into inferred possibilities, and how to find your way back.
The Real Reason Your OCD Thoughts Feel So Convincing
Get the foundational concepts in a clear, straightforward guide. Perfect if you’re just learning about this approach.
Beyond Exposure: A Different Path to OCD Freedom Podcast Series
A short series that walks you through why ICBT works differently and what recovery can actually look like.
Introduction to ICBT Mini-Course
Not sure if ICBT is right for you? This bite-sized introduction gives you the core concepts and a taste of how the method works, without a big commitment. Four modules, around 90 minutes of video instructions, plus worksheets to start building awareness and put skills into action.
ICBT Foundations Self-Study Course
Everything you need to begin applying ICBT to your specific obsessions. Work at your own pace with structured lessons, exercises, and examples. This could be a good fit if you want to get started right away or need something affordable while you’re considering group or individual therapy.
Looking For More In Depth Support?
While the resources above can give you a solid foundation in ICBT, many people find that having structured support and direct guidance makes all the difference in recovery, especially when you’re dealing with tricky obsessional patterns that have been around for years. Whether you beneift from group settings or prefer personalized 1:1 attention, both options give you access to our expertise and accountability to actually implement what you’re learning.
10 Week Online Group Program
Join others working through ICBT together. The full curriculum, live teaching & co-working sessions, and two 1:1 sessions with Dr. Kertz. The next round beings January 2026.
Individual Therapy Sessions
Work with one of our expert therapists 1:1 to address your specific OCD patterns with personalized ICBT treatment. Meet weekly or bi-weekly to make consistent progress.
Why ICBT Instead of Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy?
Traditional exposure therapy (ERP) asks you to work on building your capacity to tolerate distress and engage in new learning about your fears. ERP can be a powerful intervention. But if you don’t feel able to engage in ERP or you’ve tried but haven’t benefited, ICBT gives you a different path. It frames the problem around the idea that your reasoning process has gone off track.
ICBT focuses on helping you distinguish between what you’ve actually observed in reality versus what your mind has inferred might be possible. Instead of white-knuckling through exposures, you’ll learn to recognize when your mind has crossed from the here into into the OCD world of possibilities and how to stay grounded in what’s actually happening.
ICBT works regardless of what your obsessions are about. The method addresses the inferential confusion that underlies all OCD, which is the way your mind mistakes possibilities for probabilities and gets lost in “what if” thinking. You’re not broken. Your reasoning process just needs recalibrating.