TREATMENT
APPROACHES
INFERENCE-BASED COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (I-CBT)
I-CBT (Inference-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy) is a relatively new alternative treatment for OCD. Rather than focusing on changing behaviors as in ERP, I-CBT focuses on the problematic and obsessional reasoning process that sets off the OCD cycle. Clients learn how normal logical processes get applied inappropriately in OCD situations, and how this imaginal “bubble” keeps them trapped in an obsessional cycle. Clients learn how to notice and disengage from this sort of problematic reasoning, and how to re-engage and trust their senses and true desires.