For the people who love someone with OCD

When someone you love has OCD, you're carrying it too.

Conicia for OCD is a structured program that teaches the adult in your life how OCD works, and helps them build skills for living with it, from a psychiatrist who treats OCD. Something real to offer them, and support for you along the way.

For adults 18 and older Built by a psychiatrist who treats OCD For them, and for you
The Conicia home screen: resume the next lesson, help for hard moments, and this week's OCD check-in

If this sounds familiar

Reassurance that's never enough. Watching someone you love disappear into something you can't see. And not knowing how to help without making it worse.

You didn't cause it, and you can't fix it for them. But there are better and worse ways to respond, and learning the difference supports you both.

For your loved one

Built for OCD, specifically. Not a generic anxiety app.

OCD is a well-studied condition with established, structured treatments.1 Conicia for OCD teaches what those treatments understand about OCD, in lessons and tools your loved one can actually follow.

They can learn from it on their own, or bring it alongside care from an OCD therapist. It's built by a psychiatrist who treats OCD, so the guidance holds up. It's the first Conicia program: built for one condition, and complete on its own.

A reading lesson with the built-in audio player: read it or listen
Weston Scott Fisher, MD

Built by

Weston Scott Fisher, MD

Psychiatrist specializing in OCD · Founder, Anxiety Relief Clinic

He has spent more than a decade treating OCD. He spent more than seven years on faculty at UCSF, where he co-directed the Anxiety and OCD clinic. He has treated hundreds of people with OCD, and watched what recovery can look like, even for people who'd spent years sure they were beyond help. Conicia for OCD is that work, written down.

"OCD's moves are predictable. That's the good news. Once you can see them, you have something to work with."
  • Board-certified in Psychiatry and in Clinical Informatics
  • Licensed California and other states
  • Residency UCSF
  • Faculty More than seven years at UCSF; co-directed the Anxiety and OCD clinic
  • Practice Founder and lead clinician, Anxiety Relief Clinic
  • Focus OCD, specifically, since 2012

On screen, not outsourced

He's the one explaining it to them.

If medication is part of your loved one's treatment, there's a series of short videos where Dr. Fisher walks through how it works, side effects, and the questions patients actually ask. The voice and the reasoning are his.

Sensation. Not instruction.

What they'd be working with

Lessons that show OCD's moves. Tools for the hard moments.

A video lesson: Dr. Fisher on screen inside the program

See the pattern

Name the move OCD is making.

Your practice: notes and check-ins in one place

Their practice

Notes and check-ins, in one place.

Urge surfing: a calm moonlit sea to sit with an urge without acting

Sit with the urge

Ride it out, don't act on it.

Unhook from a thought: a sticky thought set adrift on a leaf

For loud moments

One move. Picked for them.

In our words

How we talk about OCD.

The clinical language for OCD can feel cold. Ours doesn't have to be. We're precise about how OCD works and warm about the person dealing with it. No shame, no jargon, no false reassurance. This is the voice your loved one meets inside the program.

A thought,not a threat.
Not certain about everything.Certain enough to live free.
Feel it.Don't obey it.
Compulsions aren't the escape.They're the trap.
Loud,not in charge.
There's no answerOCD will accept.
Uncomfortable,not dangerous.
The thoughts can stay.I stopped answering.
The alarmis trainable.
OCD is making it upas it goes.
Let them shout.I get to drive.
A slip isn't the story.It's just a page.

The methods

The treatments built for OCD, specifically.

Not just textbook methods. They carry the practical judgment that only comes from treating OCD, case after case, and watching what actually moves people forward.

Possible. Not urgent.

However they're starting

They don't need a therapist to begin. If they have one, even better.

On their own, it's a self-guided program for understanding OCD and building skills that help anyone in daily life, like noticing your thoughts, sitting with discomfort, and acting on what matters. It's made for the many people who start without a therapist, or who can't easily find or afford one. Connected with a clinician, it becomes part of their treatment, so your loved one and their clinician can focus on the OCD together, and what they practice here feeds into their sessions.

Helping them look for an OCD specialist? The IOCDF directory is a good place to start.

For you

Supporting them shouldn't cost you yourself.

OCD pulls the people around it in. You start giving reassurance, working around routines, smoothing things over. It looks like helping. Often it quietly feeds the very thing you're trying to ease.5 There are gentler ways to respond, and learning them supports you both.

For trusted reading on supporting someone with OCD, the IOCDF resources for families are a good place to start.

A supporter companion is in development. Practical guidance built for the people doing the supporting, alongside the program their loved one is working through.

If it feels right

When the moment fits, you can pass it along.

If your loved one seems open to it, you can share the page written for them. And if they're working with a therapist, their clinician can see what Conicia is too. You know the relationship and the timing better than anyone, so there's no rush and no pressure to do it before it feels right.

The page for your loved one  ·  The page for their therapist

We don't sell your data. We know how private this is.

No ad trackers. No analytics companies. What your loved one writes is encrypted and is never sold or mined for advertising.

Conicia for OCD is open.

Share it with the person you're here for, or create an account and see the program for yourself.

For adults 18 and older in the United States.