Bia is your step-by-step guide to overcoming phobia and taking your life back.
Based on researched techniques, get started in just a few minutes, learn new skills, and track your progress.
How contamination OCD shaped what Bia is today
Contamination OCD requires Exposure and Response Prevention done with discipline: exposure to the feared contaminant, no washing, no checking, no mental review. Bia gives you the ladder, the response-prevention timer, and the daily structure that makes ERP sustainable outside a clinician's office. We added contamination OCD because the ERP literature is overwhelming and the access gap is huge.
This photo was my first time ever on a boat, something I had avoided for over 27 years. I loved it.
I Believe You Can Recover
Hello, my name is Willy, founder of Bia. I suffered from emetophobia for most of my life and know first hand the misery and loneliness it can cause. During my recovery I built a tool to track my progress and help me practice. Over four years this tool transformed into Bia, now used by people around the world. I'm happy to share I have recovered from phobia and I believe you can too.
I built Bia for the structured exposure work that contamination OCD demands. ERP is hard, and doing it without a plan is harder. Bia's job is to give you the plan: the ladder, the timer for the response-prevention window, the daily structure, so all you have to do is the brave part.
Enjoying my first trip to Hawaii, a place I always wanted to go but never thought I'd be able to get to.
From Bia User to Co-Founder
My name is Elizabeth, and I am Co-Founder of Bia. I came across an early version of Bia while working through my own phobia recovery and became one of its first users. I was already seeing a therapist, but once I added daily guided-exposure practice with Bia the impact on my recovery was immediate. I've since partnered with Willy to leverage my health-care background to build and expand Bia, and it's been incredibly meaningful to see the tool help others just as it helped me.
| Understand the how and why of contamination OCD | |
| Learn and practice researched techniques | |
| Take your life back |
How it Works
How it Works
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Learn the how and why of your phobia. Your phobia is not your fault.
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Personalize your journey and set your goals.
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Learn researched techniques for overcoming contamination OCD.
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Practice new skills in a safe environment.
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Track your progress on lessons, exercises, and major milestones.
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No tricks, traps, or surprises of any kind.
Partners and Conferences
Bia is built in collaboration with leading academic researchers and found at national clinical conferences.
ADAA 2026 Symposium Presentation
NASP 2026 Miniskills Presentation
A Team of Experts
Licensed psychologists, clinical counselors, and research scientists. Decades of treatment experience across all age groups.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is it possible to overcome contamination OCD?
Yes. Research shows, recovery from phobia is possible. You don't have to settle for life with phobia.
What does it mean to overcome a phobia?
Imagine a life where phobia does not influence your decisions. Where you can go where you want, eat what you want, and do what you want without anxiety, or fear.
Can I use Bia by myself?
Yes. Bia is designed to work as a self-guided tool. It provides a personalized recovery plan, interactive lessons, and step-by-step guided exercises for practicing evidence-based recovery techniques.
Can I use Bia with a therapist?
Yes. Bia works great along side therapy. Your therapist can use our provider portal to personalize your recovery plan, assign custom exercises, and monitor your progress.
We can help you connect with a therapist near you. Get Connected
I am nervous to try it.
We built Bia to lower the barrier to the path of recovery. Bia never tricks, traps, or forces you in any way. The journey is built of small, incremental steps. You control the pace and order of your journey.
How long does it take?
Individual sessions on Bia are short and take 5 to 15 minutes. Bia builds a personalized step-by-step journey based on your unique needs, so completing the full journey is different for everyone. Typically, a journey includes over 55 exercises and 19 lessons across 9 milestones.
How much does it cost?
Bia is free to try. A subscription is required to unlock your full journey. If you are using Bia with a therapist, you may be eligible to receive Bia for free as part of your treatment. Ask your therapist today.
If you have an HSA/FSA plan, you can use it to purchase Bia by first receiving a letter of medical necessity from our partner, Flex. Use HSA/FSA
Is contamination OCD the same as being a clean person?
No. Clean people clean; OCD makes you clean to relieve anxiety. If skipping a wash causes distress for hours, that's the diagnostic line.
What about real contamination concerns like COVID or norovirus?
Bia teaches you to follow public health guidance, not your fear. Wash when public health authorities recommend; don't wash to relieve anxiety. The line is functional, not perfect.
Can I do ERP at home alone?
Yes, Bia is built for it. ERP works as long as the exposures are real and the response is genuinely prevented. The app structures both.
What if my compulsions are mental, not physical?
Bia treats mental rituals too: counting, neutralizing thoughts, mental review. The response prevention is internal, but the structure is the same.
Is Bia a replacement for therapy?
No. Bia is a personalized guided tool for learning about and practicing exposure. It can be used with, or without, the aide of a therapist, but Bia does not replace the use of a traditional therapist.
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