For fertility clinics, universities, and companies
Evidence based CBT strategies that work independently or alongside supportive counselling, and cut the waitlist.
AICBT licenses published Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), written entirely by a clinical psychologist, the most researched psychological intervention, though a dissemination problem means only a minority of people who seek help ever receive it. Your clinic or campus can offer it under its own name, so patients and students can start immediately, without waiting for an appointment, freeing your clinical team to focus where they're needed most. One time seat blocks, no subscription, and evidence a procurement committee can actually verify.
Or see either program available directly to individuals.
Licensed and deployed at
Michigan Technological UniversityElizabeth City State UniversityGranville Youth Health Centre
Research partners
University of SydneyUniversity of Technology SydneyReykjavik UniversityUniversity of British Columbia
For organizations
Offer it to everyone you serve.
Clinics, universities, and companies license AICBT programs so every patient, student, or employee gets structured, evidence based psychological support that fits alongside whatever care or benefits you already offer, without adding to anyone's workload.
Fertility clinics & IVF centresClinic packages
Overcome Fertility Stress for your patients
Two published trials · Works alongside your care team
With newly published research in 2023 and 2026, including a randomized controlled trial, the program is now opening up to fertility clinics. Offer every patient a psychologist developed CBT program under your clinic's wing, from the front desk to the patient portal.
Social anxiety is one of the most common presentations at every campus counseling center. A site license gives your whole campus structured CBT from day one, the way Michigan Tech and Elizabeth City State already do.
→ Standalone access, or paired with campus therapy
1.70Effect size (Cohen's d) in the Hafliðadóttir randomized controlled trial, Overcome Fertility Stress
1.76Effect size (Cohen's d) among real world users worldwide who completed Overcome Social Anxiety, McCall et al.
AICBT's programs have been tested in 13 published trials, including randomized controlled trials, the strongest form of evidence in clinical psychology. That clinical foundation traces back to Dr. Helgadóttir's PhD research, recognized with the Tracy Goodall Early Career Award from the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy (AACBT). Because each program is fixed and written entirely by a clinical psychologist, not a protocol left open to interpretation, the version tested is the exact version your patients or students receive, a guarantee most psychotherapy research cannot offer. Both Overcome Fertility Stress and Overcome Social Anxiety carry their own randomized controlled trial: the Hafliðadóttir trial for fertility, run against a waitlist control group, and an earlier RCT for social anxiety. Social anxiety carries one more layer on top of that. The program has been live since 2012, long enough that we could go back and study real world users instead of trial participants, people who found the program entirely on their own. That analysis found an even larger effect than the RCT itself, evidence the results hold up outside a research setting, with real, self selected users around the world. See the full publication list . Dr. Helgadóttir's research has been cited 856 times on Google Scholar, cited below.
Hafliðadóttir, S., Helgadóttir, F., & Sighvatsson, M. B. "A Randomized Controlled Trial of an iCBT Program to Reduce Infertility Related Stress." Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2026.
Björnsdóttir, R. R., Helgadóttir, F. D., & Sighvatsson, M. B. "Evaluating the Efficacy of an Internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for fertility stress in women: A Feasibility Study." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 51, 2023.
McCall, H., Richardson, C., Helgadottir, F., & Chen, F. S. "Evaluating a Web-Based Social Anxiety Intervention Among University Students: Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(3), e91, 2018. Also found to reduce depression symptoms alongside social anxiety. View on PubMed
McCall, H., Helgadottir, F. D., Menzies, R., Hadjistavropoulos, H., & Chen, F. S. "An Evaluation of Community Outcomes for a Web-Based Social Anxiety Intervention." Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(4), e11566, 2019. Users found the program independently, through the AI-Therapy blog , media coverage, and search, spanning 30 countries, outside a research setting. View on PubMed Central
Sigurðardóttir, S., Helgadóttir, F. D., Menzies, R. E., Sighvatsson, M. B., & Menzies, R. G. "Improving adherence to a web-based cognitive-behavioural therapy program for social anxiety with group sessions: A randomised control trial." Internet Interventions, 28, 2022.
Selected conference presentations
2026, Vancouver, Canada. Delivered the presidential opening remarks, on connection in the age of AI, at the 16th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, University of British Columbia.
2023, Seoul, South Korea. Chaired a session on the latest developments in online treatment at the 10th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, presenting the Overcome Fertility Stress trial.
2019, Berlin, Germany. Chaired a session at the 9th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies on unguided online CBT in university and community samples, covering the Overcome Social Anxiety program.
2017, San Francisco, USA. Chaired a roundtable at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America annual conference on safety behaviors in anxiety treatment, social anxiety's main target.
2014, United Kingdom. Speaker in a symposium at the 42nd British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies conference on safety seeking behaviours in anxiety disorders.
2013, Oxford, United Kingdom. Invited talk at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, on commercialising psychology research into AI-Therapy.
2013, Lima, Peru. Speaker in a symposium chaired by Prof. Per Carlbring at the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies on the latest developments in internet based treatment.
2010, Boston, USA. Open paper at the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies on the phase II trial findings for a fully automated, online CBT program for social anxiety.
In the media
The Wall Street Journal, 2019. Commented on an article about AI predicting marital conflict, noting the results were promising despite the limitations of self-report data.
BBC, 2019. Interviewed for the BBC's Machine Minds series on how computers can find patterns in large amounts of data that reveal underlying mental processes.
Science, 2015. The AI-Therapy program itself, not just its founders, was featured in "The Synthetic Therapist," a piece in Science, one of the world's most selective scientific journals and rarely a venue for coverage of a single mental health tool.
Also covered extensively across Icelandic national media, including RÚV, Stöð 2, and Morgunblaðið.
Not a static PDF, not a video library, not a chatbot. A structured program that adapts to each person, built and recorded entirely by a licensed clinical psychologist.
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Personalized from the first assessment
Pre treatment questionnaires shape which content each person sees. No two people get an identical program.
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Every word from a licensed clinical psychologist
Recorded in advance and reviewed for accuracy. Nothing in the therapy itself is generated by AI.
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No waiting room
Available at 11pm during a flare up, or the night before a presentation, not just office hours.
A module from Overcome Social Anxiety, live on the platform.
"This program helped me tremendously to understand myself better and to be kinder to myself. I am going to be fine no matter what happens."
Overcome Fertility Stress user
"This program can help you pick yourself up and step out of the fertility prison you've been slowly locking yourself in."
Overcome Fertility Stress user
"This program has changed my life."
Helga, Iceland, Overcome Social Anxiety
"This program has given me the tools to start living the life I've always wanted."
Andrew, Canada, Overcome Social Anxiety
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Published trials across three programs, including randomized controlled trials with real participants
1.76
Effect size (Cohen's d) in published trials, against roughly 1.04 for typical face to face CBT
11,030
Times AICBT's directors' research has been cited, on Google Scholar
19
Years building digital CBT, since 2007
Why AICBT
Built to survive procurement, not just a demo.
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Clinician written
Every word is written in advance by a licensed clinical psychologist. Nothing is generated by AI, so you know exactly what your patients or students receive.
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Published, not claimed
13 published trials back the programs, with citations you can check yourself, not marketing copy. The program never varies by provider, so the version tested is the version your patients or students get.
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One time licensing
Seat blocks never expire and there is no subscription. A single budget approval, not a recurring line item to renegotiate every year.
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Clinical and technical leadership
Directed by a licensed clinical psychologist and a data scientist together, so the psychology and the platform are both built to the same standard.
What is AICBT
The home of digital CBT, built on evidence.
AICBT builds cognitive behavioural therapy that people can use on their own, backed by evidence anyone can check. It began in 2007, years before "digital mental health" was a category, when clinical psychologist Dr. Fjóla Helgadóttir taught herself to code to build the first version. Today the company, AICBT Consulting Ltd, is directed by Dr. Fjóla Helgadóttir and Dr. Neil Yager, and the approach hasn't changed: build a program grounded in decades of clinical technique, test it, publish it, then improve it. That work began with Overcome Social Anxiety, the long running flagship now licensed by US universities, and now includes Overcome Fertility Stress and Overcome Death Anxiety.
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Building since 2007
Started years before "digital mental health" was a category, by a clinical psychologist who taught herself to code rather than wait for someone else to build it.
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Tested and published
The methods are put through peer review and randomized trials, then cited openly, not just claimed on a landing page.
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Yours to use anywhere
Self paced, private, and available without a referral or waiting list, built to run alongside the care you already have.
The directors
Directed by two people who build the evidence themselves.
Dr. Fjóla Helgadóttir
PhD, R.Psych · Codirector, AI in Psychology
Licensed clinical psychologist (British Columbia & Iceland), driven by one belief: real change happens through connection. Past President of the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (CACBT), she has 20 years of experience as a practicing clinical psychologist, running her own clinics in Australia, Iceland, and Canada, and worked as a senior research clinician at the University of Oxford. Author of AICBT's CBT programs since 2007, she has advised organizations including McKinsey & Company on the commercial landscape of digital mental health, and commented on AI and mental health for the BBC, Science, and The Wall Street Journal. Her PhD research earned her the Tracy Goodall Early Career Award from the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy (AACBT), which recognizes outstanding contribution to CBT.
Neil leads AICBT's technology, with a background in data science, computer vision, and biometrics. He holds an MEngSc and PhD from the University of New South Wales, where his doctoral thesis on fingerprint verification won the Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Research Excellence in Engineering, and an earlier paper won best paper at AutoID 2007. He worked as Principal Research Engineer at Canon Information Systems Research Australia, co authored a Springer textbook on biometric systems, and contributed to scikit-image, a widely used open source image processing library, before co founding Phrasee, an AI copywriting company that reached a private equity exit in 2022. His research has been cited over 10,200 times on Google Scholar, and his involvement is why the AICBT platform is built to the same standard as the psychology behind it: robust, private, and built to last.
For Dr. Fjóla's clinical practice, visit drfjola.com . For Dr. Neil's technical work, visit neilyager.com .
Why "AI" is in the name
We were AI before AI meant chatbots.
The AI in AICBT stands for the adaptive intelligence built into the programs since 2007: carefully designed logic that personalizes clinician written therapy to each person's answers. There are no large language models, no chatbots, and no generated responses anywhere in the therapy. Every word was written in advance by a clinical psychologist, and the technology decides only which of those words you need next.
This is not a recent pivot. In 2009, Dr. Helgadóttir published a pair of first authored papers on bridging the gap between Eliza, the original chatbot, and genuine online CBT, over a decade before the current wave of AI wellness apps existed.
Some sounds don't just annoy you. They take over. Misophonia is real, common, and badly misunderstood. Dr. Fjóla Helgadóttir is writing a book that explains what it is, why it happens, and what actually helps, from a clinical psychologist who treats it.
The book is being written now, with publication expected by the end of 2026. Sign up to follow along and be first to know when it launches.
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