Bia is your step-by-step guide to taking your life back from anxiety, phobia, and OCD.
Based on researched techniques, get started in just a few minutes, learn new skills, and track your progress.
How Bia works for school phobia
School refusal is almost always anxiety under another name. The stomach aches are real, they disappear at the weekend, and they come back on Sunday night. Bia builds a return-to-school plan in small, repeatable steps, keeps the parent and the school working from the same plan, and teaches parents what to do when a morning goes badly.
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.
School phobia is challenging, but you are not alone. Bia provides step-by-step interactive lessons and exercises to break the avoidance cycle and replace it with a cycle of progress and recovery.
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.
How it Works
How it Works
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Learn the how and why of what you're feeling. It is not your fault.
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Personalize your journey and set your goals.
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Learn researched techniques for overcoming school phobia.
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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.
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 school phobia?
Yes. Research shows recovery is possible. You don't have to settle for the way things are.
What does recovery look like?
Imagine a life where fear and anxiety don't make your decisions for you. Where you can go where you want, eat what you want, and do what you want.
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 alongside 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
Should I force my child to go?
Forcing usually backfires. Bia teaches the graduated approach: partial days, supported drop-offs, building back up. It's slower but it works.
Is this the same as separation anxiety?
Often related. Younger children's school phobia is usually separation-driven; older children's is more often social or specific.
How can I help if I work full time?
Bia is designed for working parents. The plan tells you what the next step is, so you are not deciding what to do in the middle of a difficult morning.
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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