Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

I-CBT is a game-changer for OCD treatment. Whether you’re a clinician or a patient, traditional Exposure-based therapies for OCD can be a challenge to engage with. They are effective, and often leave people feeling better, but not all the way back to themselves. Doubts linger or worries crop up in new areas, and more exposure work is usually prescribed. 

I-CBT approaches OCD in a fundamentally different way, showing how OCD is a problem of reasoning and doubt that creates inferential confusion - where we take imagined possibilities and treat them as evidence of threats in the here and now. Importantly, I-CBT honors the content of one’s OCD, explaining how and why these worries matter so much to the sufferer, no matter their history or cultural background. Through a dedicated learning and application of the principles of I-CBT, clinicians and patients can help restore trust in the senses, including one’s own identity, purpose, intentions and desires. Free from doubt, people are able to return to their lives without the suffering OCD causes.