Conicia for OCD

See the loop OCD keeps you in, and practice leaving the thought unanswered. Conicia is a self-help program for adults who live with OCD, written by a psychiatrist who treats it, with someone who has it. Lessons that show you how OCD works, in-the-moment tools for urges and intrusive thoughts, guided exercises, an OCD journal, and a weekly check-in. Rooted in exposure and response prevention (ERP), inference-based CBT, and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), not just one.

Many people arrive here because a therapist recommended structured work between sessions. If that is you, this is the app they meant. Others arrive on their own, on a waiting list or without a therapist, and start with the free tools and the first lesson.

Open the app and it asks one question: what do you need right now?
- OCD is loud. Practices for not acting on it, right now.
- I have time to work on it. Your next lesson, read or listened to.
- OCD got me earlier. Log it in the journal, and the pattern shows.

Tools for hard moments:
- Urge surfing: stay with an urge without acting on it. You set the length.
- Unhook from a thought: write it down and watch the stream carry it away. Nothing is saved.
- Caught in a loop: when you cannot stop going over it, set the question down unsolved. Not an answer, a way to stop circling.

The lessons:
- Short lessons, a few minutes each, in Dr. Weston Fisher's own words: how OCD works, what it has you doing, what sets it off, facing what it has you avoiding, where the doubt starts, living alongside OCD, staying well
- Listen instead of read: every lesson plays aloud, like an audiobook, even with your screen locked
- Keep a chapter's audio on your phone and listen offline

The exercises:
- Guided writing exercises from the lessons: map your triggers, take stock of your safety behaviors, build your exposure ladder, write the alternative story, plan your response to a slip

The OCD journal:
- Catch OCD in the act: log what set it off, what it pushed you to do, and what you did instead
- A minute per moment, in three short steps
- Each week, the urges you did not feed and the time compulsions took. Week by week, the pattern shows

The weekly check-in:
- Five questions, about a minute. How OCD has been this week, in one chart over time. For tracking, not diagnosis.

If you work with a therapist or clinician:
- Connecting is free and your choice
- They can follow your progress, assign readings and exercises, leave you voice notes for hard moments, and open the parts meant to be done together
- Work through the program with them in session, on one screen

Who made it:
- Dr. Weston Fisher, a psychiatrist who has specialized in OCD for more than a decade, and a product manager who has OCD
- No AI chatbot. No reassurance on tap. No streaks, no badges, no feed, no ads
- What you write is encrypted, and you can delete your account and its data at any time

Sign in to use the app:
A Conicia account is required. The full program is part of a Conicia subscription. Reading, exercises and tools work offline.

What Conicia is not:
Conicia is educational and self-management only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, and it is not for the diagnosis or treatment of any condition, including OCD. Talk to your clinician before making decisions about your care. If you are in crisis in the United States, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or call 911. Outside the US, findahelpline.com lists free helplines worldwide. Clinician-connected features are available in the United States.