Conicia in your chat · free

Ask your AI anything. Without feeding the OCD.

Add Conicia to ChatGPT or Claude. It guides your chatbot to notice when OCD keeps asking for certainty, and to offer one next step instead of another round of reassurance. When an urge hits, a short practice can open right in the chat. When you want to understand OCD, it teaches you. Free. Setup takes about two minutes, one time.

ChatGPT, all plans Claude, all plans
Set up in ChatGPT → Set up in Claude → What it does

Conicia guides your chatbot. It can't control it. What that means

Psychoeducation and self-help from an OCD specialist. Not a substitute for clinical care, not for emergencies, and intended for adults 18 and over.

A real reply

1 · The reassurance loop

Built to help your chatbot stop feeding the compulsion. Here is how.

Reassurance feels kind for a minute and feeds OCD for a day. You know the loop: you ask, you feel better, you ask again. A chatbot that answers every time is the most patient reassurance-giver ever built. Connect Conicia, and it guides the chatbot to handle that question differently.

What it looks for

The pattern

Asking again something you already asked, here or anywhere. "Promise me." "Can you be sure?" Confessing something to see how it reacts. A what-if about who you are: "what if I'm secretly a bad person?" The same fear back in new words.

What it does instead

Acknowledge, name, one step

Conicia guides the chatbot to acknowledge the feeling, to name that this may be OCD asking for certainty, and to offer one next step rather than a menu. That step might be a Right Now practice that opens in the chat, or putting the phone down and going outside. If you ask again, it is guided to stay warm and stay the course.

What it steers away from

False certainty, even sideways

Promises, odds, "you're probably fine", debating whether the fear is realistic, lists of evidence either way. Softer versions count too. "Not because it isn't true" is reassurance in a nicer coat. Chatbots slip sometimes, so expect this to be less likely, not impossible.

Still a normal chatbot

Ordinary questions get ordinary answers

"Am I developing diabetes?" asked once, plainly, gets an honest answer. The line is drawn at the pattern of certainty-seeking, not at scary topics. If a message suggests you may be in danger, Conicia tells the chatbot to set all of this aside and point you to 988 and 911 first.

Your choice

A boundary you set, like the ones in therapy

It works in the chats where Conicia is connected, and you can remove it at any time. That is by design. It is guidance you chose, not a wall. If you work with a clinician, show them this page and set it up together; what happens in the chat is worth bringing into the next session.

What we can and can't promise

Conicia guides the chatbot. It does not control it.

Claude and ChatGPT are built and run by Anthropic and OpenAI, not by us. Conicia gives the chatbot instructions and tools, and the chatbot decides what to do with them. Everything on this page describes what Conicia asks the chatbot to do. It may still reassure you, miss the pattern, or see the pattern where it isn't, and its behavior can change whenever those companies update their models. We can't guarantee any particular reply or result. The replies shown here are examples, and yours will differ. Conicia is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or OpenAI.

2 · In the moment

When an urge hits, help opens inside the chat.

When the conversation shows you are caught in an urge or a loop, the chatbot can offer a Right Now practice, and the card opens inside the conversation. No app to find, no tab to switch. You don't have to know to ask, though you can at any time by writing "open my Right Now tools". Two to ten minutes. Nothing you do inside the card is sent to Conicia or shown to your chatbot; your place in a practice stays in your own browser only.

Caught in a loop

When you can't stop going over it

Five short guided beats that help you set the loop down, then a pivot back to what you were doing before it grabbed you. About two minutes, voice optional.

Urge surfing

Stay with an urge without acting on it

You set the length. Ocean sound, a sea to look at, and the urge rising and falling while you don't wash, check, or ask. It ends with a short closing screen.

Unhook from a thought

When a thought won't let go

You write the thought down and work one defusion technique, dealt at random. Silent. For a sticky thought you need some distance from.

3 · To understand

Two free lessons to start, taught in plain words.

From the Conicia course, built by a psychiatrist who has treated OCD since 2012: how OCD works, and what keeps it going. Ask the chatbot to explain any part, at your pace, with your own examples in shorthand. These two are the start of a much longer course. If you want to go deeper, the full course and exposure work with a clinician are in the Conicia program, and moving over is easy whenever you are ready.

And one refusal

It points exposure work back to the program

Exposure practice is the heart of treating OCD, and it belongs with a clinician, inside the program, where it is planned, timed and logged. Ask the chatbot to build a ladder and Conicia guides it to open a door to the program instead of improvising one.

Privacy, in plain words

Conicia never sees your chat

The connector only learns which card was opened. It never receives what you type, and it keeps no account and no profile of you. The chat itself stays with the chatbot's company (Anthropic or OpenAI), under your settings there. What you do inside a card is not sent anywhere; a finished-lesson tick and your place in a practice stay in your own browser only.

Set it up

Setup takes about two minutes, one time.

ChatGPT: one tap from the plugin directory. Claude: one button, then Add. You only do this once. After that, Conicia is available in your new chats.

Before you connect

Free, no account, no sign-up. Five things worth thirty seconds.

Not a substitute for clinical care

Conicia is psychoeducation and self-help from an OCD specialist. It does not diagnose or treat anything, it is not for emergencies, and it is intended for adults 18 and over.

You are talking to an AI, and it can draw conclusions

What you type goes to your AI provider, not to Conicia, and is not protected the way medical records are. Having an OCD tool connected may lead your AI to infer you have a diagnosis. Use your judgment; shorthand is fine.

Conicia keeps nothing you type

Nothing in a lesson or practice card is sent to Conicia or shown to your AI. A finished-lesson tick and your place in a practice stay in your own browser only.

Use a personal account

Not a work, school, or shared login. On a shared account the no-reassurance rule applies to everyone who uses it, and others may see what is connected.

Remove it any time, for any reason

The rule, the tools, and the cards leave new chats immediately. Conversations you already had stay in your AI's history like any other chat; delete them there if you want them gone.

If you are ever in danger of harming yourself or someone else, do not use a chat tool. Contact your local emergency services or go to the nearest emergency room. In the United States, call or text 988, or call 911. Outside the US: findahelpline.com.

In ChatGPT

Free, Go, Plus and Pro · web and phone app
1. Install Conicia in ChatGPT → 2. Set up Conicia →
  1. Tap the first button and then Install plugin. Sign in if you aren't already. There is no login and no account for Conicia itself.
  2. Tap the second button: it opens a new chat with Set up Conicia already typed, so just send it. ChatGPT walks you through a short checklist. The step marked CRITICAL, a few lines you paste into your own ChatGPT settings, is what makes it work: without it, ChatGPT does not consult Conicia on a worried question.
  3. Then test it in a new chat: say what you would normally say when you are caught in an anxious loop, for example How can I be sure that ____ won't happen if I don't ____? You should get a plain reply and the offer of a short practice, not reassurance.

Listed as Conicia for OCD, by Conicia, Inc. If ChatGPT does not use Conicia, write @Conicia first. On Business, Enterprise and Edu accounts a workspace admin has to allow plugins first.

In Claude

Free, Pro and Max · set up on the web or desktop app
  1. Tap Add Conicia to Claude below. Sign in to Claude if it asks. Claude then opens its Add custom connector box with Conicia already filled in. If the box doesn't appear after you sign in, come back here and tap the button again.
  2. Claude notes that the connector came from an outside link. Check that it connects to connect.conicia.com, then tap Continue, then Add.
  3. Start a new chat and write Open my Right Now tools. When Claude asks for permission, choose Allow always.
Add Conicia to Claude →

The Free plan allows one custom connector, and this can be it. Once it's added, it works in your Claude phone chats too.

If the button doesn't open the box

The Conicia link

https://connect.conicia.com/b497d61562495f76cb8b31296fd50e8d/mcp

  1. Copy the Conicia link above.
  2. Open claude.ai in a browser, or the Claude desktop app. Sign in if you aren't already.
  3. Open Customize, then Connectors.
  4. Tap +, then Add custom connector.
  5. Paste the link, name it Conicia, tap Add.

Then try it. In a new chat, write Open my Right Now tools. A card should open in the conversation. In ChatGPT, do Set up Conicia first; if nothing happens, write @Conicia before your message.

Not for emergencies

Conicia cannot help in an emergency, and neither can a chatbot. If you are in danger of harming yourself, call or text 988 in the US, call 911, or go to the nearest emergency room. Outside the US: findahelpline.com. Inside every Conicia card, these numbers sit at the top.

Questions

If you're curious to learn more.

Is it free?

Yes. It costs nothing and needs no Conicia account. You get two free lessons, the three Right Now practices, and the support for stepping out of reassurance loops. If you want to go deeper, the full program has the whole course and exposure work with your clinician, at my.conicia.com.

Why does it steer away from reassuring me?

Because reassurance feels kind for a minute and feeds OCD for a day. Asking again, "just to be sure", is the compulsion. The chatbot should still answer a real question once. When the same fear comes back in new words, Conicia guides it to stay warm, skip the reassurance, and offer one next step, like a practice or simply putting the phone down.

Will it hold the line every time?

No, and we won't pretend otherwise. Claude and ChatGPT belong to Anthropic and OpenAI. Conicia gives the chatbot instructions and tools, and the chatbot decides how to use them. It will sometimes reassure you anyway, or treat an ordinary question as the pattern. Connecting Conicia makes false certainty less likely. It can't rule it out, and it is not a substitute for care from a clinician.

Does Conicia see what I write?

No. The connector never receives your messages. It only learns which card was opened, so a practice can start. Nothing you do inside a card is sent to Conicia or shown to the chatbot; a finished-lesson tick and your place in a practice stay in your own browser only. Your chat stays with the chatbot's company, under the privacy settings you chose there.

Is this therapy?

No. It is education and self-help, designed by a psychiatrist who treats OCD. It does not diagnose, and it does not replace a clinician. Exposure work, the core of OCD treatment, is done in the Conicia program together with a licensed clinician, not in the chat.

Which chatbots work today?

ChatGPT on every plan, one tap from the plugin directory, on the web and in the phone app, then the Set up Conicia checklist in your first chat (the second button on this page opens that chat with the message already typed); on Business, Enterprise and Edu a workspace admin has to allow plugins first. Claude on every plan, including Free: you add it on the web or in the desktop app, and after that it also works in the Claude phone app.

I am in the program. Is this for me too?

Yes, and there is a fuller version for you: your whole course in the chat, with brainstorming for ladder steps that you then save in the app. Ask your clinician or write to us at support@conicia.com.

I am a clinician. How do I use this with clients?

Send them this page, or set it up together in session (two minutes). Agree on what it is: a boundary they chose, like the ones you set together for family reassurance. Ask about it in the next session: what did the chatbot say, what did they do next. Clients in the full Conicia program get a fuller version, with their course in the chat and a door into their exposure work with you.

Does it work in every chat?

It works in the chats where Conicia is connected, on that account. A new chat elsewhere, or another chatbot, doesn't have it. The client can also remove it at any time, and the chatbot will not follow the guidance perfectly. That is understood going in. It is guidance the client chose, not a wall, and the clinical work stays with you.