A Structured Journey

We model the ICS therapeutic process using our new AI approach.

The client works through the 7-step process to help relieve their fear or phobia, speaking with the AI through interactive conversations, and performing therapeutic techniques like eye movements or tapping.

We use face tracking technology to check that you’re doing the techniques correctly. 

By going through the 7-step process, you’ll understand how your fear or phobia works, and reduce the emotional response.

The 7 Stages of Integrated Change System Therapy

Know Your Fear

Relax the Conscious Mind

Uncover Secondary Gain

Discover & Scramble Your Strategy

Discover & Scramble Past Memories

Recondition Your Emotions

Face Your Fear

This is not just another AI chat bot

LLMs Can’t Do Everything

Everyone these days seems to be talking about LLMs, (Large Language Models) and yes, there are so many new AI chat bots. 

LLMs are great, but they can’t do everything.  There’s one thing in particular that they cannot do well, and that's following a process.

Now, they’ve gotten better at simple processes like counting the letters in a word, and GPT4o now gets it correct most of the time.  But following a complex process such as helping to relieve a client of their fear or phobia? 

That’s not something that a plain LLM can do.  

New AI Approach

Aphobic is built on a new AI approach which we call subgoal-directed LLMs with committee, built in response to the limitations of vanilla LLMs.  

The ultimate goal of the AI approach is to help relieve you of your fear or phobia using the ICS therapeutic process.  In order for an LLM to follow such a process, we model it using a subgoal map.  At each point in the conversation between the user and the AI, the AI chooses what the next subgoal is.  Essentially the subgoal approach is like a therapist asking themselves, “Should I keep the client on this topic, or ask them how they’re feeling, or ask them how this relates to something they said earlier?”

Building Safe AI

To support emotional awareness, Aphobic includes a committee layer of AI agents designed to monitor patterns in the user-AI interaction, such as elevated distress, repeated avoidance, or other signs of engagement difficulty.

Aphobic is also built with HIPAA compliance in mind. While we’re not a healthcare company, we take your privacy and security incredibly seriously.