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Gut Sense
Calming IBS with gut-directed CBT
IBS isn't in your head — it's in the conversation between your head and your gut, and that line has real volume settings we can reach. Gut-directed CBT has some of the best trial results in digestive medicine. Calm the line directly, take apart the fear that keeps it loud, and take back the places you've been avoiding.
The loop has a shape, too
- A gut that reacts strongly to stress, and a life that's organized around bathrooms and urgency.
- The fear of an accident that shapes where you'll go and what you'll eat.
- Symptoms a doctor has already diagnosed as IBS — not still a mystery.
- Vigilance that amplifies every gut sensation into a crisis.
- Places and situations you've quietly started avoiding.
Your gut diary drives the program
Not a course you watch — a loop you run. Gut Sense reads your gut-stress correlation and your practice rate, and adjusts your dose and your exposure ladder weekly, the same way gut-directed CBT works in a clinic.
Measure
A sixty-second daily diary — your gut, your stress, your day. This is the engine of the whole program.
daily · 60 secLearn
Short sessions with Priya teach the method — your second brain, the loop, the parasympathetic lever.
10–15 min · most daysAdjust
The weekly review reads your practice rate and symptom trend, and consolidates, holds, or reinforces your practice.
weekly review↻ the loop runs weekly — six times
Practice seventy percent of days with symptoms trending down and the program consolidates what's working. Below fifty percent, it reinforces the baseline practice before adding anything new. The re-entry ladder moves the same way — a rung advances once dread drops to 2 or lower across two attempts.
Six weeks, one method
Seventeen sessions and six weekly check-ins. The first week is free — including your baseline gut-brain report.
Week 1The AxisYour second brain, and the loop that keeps it loud3 sessions
Week 2Calming the LineReach for the volume knob directly4 sessions
Week 3The Anxiety LayerTake the fear apart from three sides4 sessions
Week 4The MapDraw the avoided world, then start climbing back into it4 sessions
Week 5Living ForwardThe upstream tap, the upper rungs, food peace4 sessions
Week 6Keep It GoingRead your six weeks, drill for flares, write your plan3 sessions
Priya
Mind–body & wellbeing · guides 4 programs
The mind–body specialist — grounded and precise about the gut-brain and pain loops, and generous about what bodies are up against.
“Hi, I'm Priya. Over the next six weeks we're not going to fix your gut — we're going to turn down the line between your gut and your head, so the fear stops running the show.”
Gut-directed CBT, faithfully built
Gut Sense implements gut-directed CBT for IBS — one of digestive medicine's best-evidenced psychological treatments — with gut-brain axis psychoeducation, parasympathetic and relaxation training, meal and sleep regularity, catastrophic-thought work, attention de-amplification, and graded exposure back into avoided situations.
- Gut-directed CBT for IBS
- Parasympathetic and relaxation training
- Catastrophic-thought work
- Graded exposure to avoided situations
Diagnosis first — always
Gut Sense is for IBS a clinician has already diagnosed. Undiagnosed GI symptoms, or any red flag — bleeding, unexplained weight loss, fever, symptoms that wake you at night, onset after age 50, or a clear change in your normal pattern — route to an education-only track and a see-a-doctor-first referral at onboarding.
This program never prescribes a diet — regularity guidance only; real diet work belongs with a registered dietitian. If your relationship with food has tightened past IBS logic — eating very little, dropping weight, rules taking over — that's flagged gently and pointed toward Nourish or a clinician, without shame.
Gut Sense, next to the field
| Gut SenseResiliens | Nerva (Mindset Health)nervahealth.com | Mahana IBSmahana.com | Regulora (metaMe Health)metamehealth.com | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $149 one-time (draft) — the program is yours | Not published as a fixed figure | Not published | Not published |
| Structure | 6 weeks · 17 sessions + weekly reviews | 6-week program of daily ~15-minute audio gut-brain hypnotherapy sessions, psychoeducation, breathing exercises, and a flare-up toolkit; maintenance cycle offered afterward | 10 sessions of gut-directed CBT, ~20–30 minutes each, typically completed over 4–6 weeks within a 3-month prescription window — psychoeducation, behavioral goal-setting, stress management, emotion regulation, thought work, relapse-prevention planning | 3-month prescription treatment: 7 hypnotherapy sessions, ~30 minutes each, over 12 weeks, based on the published 'North Carolina' scripted gut-directed hypnotherapy protocol |
| Personalization | Gut diary → symptom trend → practice dose | Program path personalized from a free intake assessment | Not detailed beyond self-paced session progression | Not detailed in available vendor materials |
| Human support | Self-guided · clinician-referral gates built in | Vendor claims 'real human support (not chatbots)'; a competing hypnotherapist's third-party review characterizes it as entirely pre-recorded audio with no live adjustment — a genuine discrepancy between vendor marketing and a critical outside review | No in-app clinician interaction described; a prescribing physician initiates access rather than providing ongoing coaching | Prescription-initiated; no in-app live coaching described |
| Access | Self-serve, start today | Direct-to-consumer, no prescription or diagnosis gate found beyond self-assessment | Prescription required — not directly purchasable by consumers | Prescription required |
| Breadth | 24+ program catalog · bundle 2-3 related programs and save | Positions itself across IBS and other gut-brain conditions, not IBS-exclusive | IBS-specific | Narrower than general IBS — indicated specifically for abdominal pain associated with IBS |
| Platforms | Web · iOS · Android | iOS · Android · Web | iOS · Android | iOS · Android |
Sources: competitor pricing and program pages — every production value carries a source URL and access date, and unpublished facts are labeled "not published," never guessed.
Why we built it differently
- No prescription, no waiting room. Gut Sense is CBT-based like Mahana IBS but doesn't require a doctor's visit or insurance processing to start — self-serve from day one, the same access model as Nerva but without hypnotherapy's less-established evidence base for this specific application.
- One price, published plainly. $149 once, stated upfront — unlike Nerva's assessment-gated pricing or the prescription products' insurance-dependent out-of-pocket costs.
- It screens for diagnosis, not for insurance. The same clinical caution — diagnosis required before the behavioral program opens — without requiring a prescription or a specific health plan to access it.
Start free. Continue if it's working.
First week
- Onboarding + two full sessions
- Daily gut diary
- Your baseline gut-brain report
Full program
- All six weeks of Gut Sense, yours to keep
- Every session, review, and exercise
- Web + Untangle app access
Working on more than one thing? Related programs bundle together — two or three at a discount. Bundles are announced at launch.
Before you start
Do I need a diagnosis first?
Yes — the onboarding screen checks for it directly. Undiagnosed symptoms or any red-flag sign route to an education-only track and a see-a-doctor-first referral. That's the safe order, and the full program is right here once you're diagnosed and cleared.
Will this tell me what to eat?
No — never a diet prescription. Gut Sense covers meal and sleep regularity only; real diet work is referred to a registered dietitian, since that's not what gut-directed CBT treats.
Will my gut symptoms go away completely?
Maybe not entirely, and this program says so honestly. What usually leaves is the loop's surcharge — the anxiety, the vigilance, the avoidance — even if some gut sensitivity remains.
How much time does it take?
Sixty seconds a day for the gut diary, and ten to fifteen minutes most days for the session. The real work happens in the practice itself — a few minutes of turning the volume down.
Be first to make sense of it
Gut Sense is launching soon on the web and in the Untangle app. Join the early-access list and we'll let you know the moment it opens.
One email when your program opens. No drip campaign.