What is I-CBT and How Does it Feel? Most of the time, your brain uses common sense and your physical senses to navigate the world. If you look at a clean countertop, your eyes tell you it is clean, and you move on. But OCD interrupts this process with a reasoning glitch called inferential confusion. It makes an imagined possibility (like "what if it's contaminated?") feel just as real and dangerous as what is actually right in front of you. Doing I-CBT feels like pulling back the curtain on a magician's trick. Instead of fighting the thoughts, we trace them backward to the exact moment your mind stopped trusting your eyes and ears and made the leap into OCD. It feels collaborative and respectful: You won't be asked to just blindly tolerate high anxiety. Instead, you learn the mechanics of your mind. It restores your confidence: OCD relies on you distrusting yourself. This approach actively rewires your relationship with your mind, teaching you to lean firmly back into reality and trust your own senses again. The urge naturally fades: When you learn how to expose the OCD story as a completely irrelevant fiction, your brain stops believing the threat. Because the danger no longer feels real, the intense urge to perform a compulsion naturally loses its power. Over 7 weeks and 14 comprehensive sessions, we will pull back the curtain on the OCD algorithm, dismantle the "Feared Possible Self" that fuels your doubts, and give you the concrete tools to stay firmly grounded in the here-and-now.