Does your therapist use AI?
More and more therapists are using AI to take notes and do their paperwork. Does yours?
You should know. If you don’t, ask. And tell them what you want. It’s up to you.
What do you want?
I’ll tell you what I want: I want to know you. My job is to attune to you and understand your story — your experiences, desires, and values — as a human being. It’s to create a unique, healing relationship.
I don’t want to turn any of that over to a computer.
I’m getting bombarded by ads for AI tools that record sessions, write transcripts, generate summaries, and suggest diagnoses and treatment plans. And they use the transcripts to train themselves.
Tools like these save a lot of time. I’d save hours of paperwork and planning between sessions. Those hours are not the most exciting part of my job! But they force me to think about you.
AI promises to reduce the friction and the struggle associated with our work.
Research shows that using technology to do our work causes a drop in deep learning, understanding, and retention.
In healthcare, this ‘cognitive offloading’ can lead to what’s being called ‘cognitive surrender.’
Having knowledge, understanding, and memory of you IS my job. I don’t want to surrender those!
Do you want to be known and understood by your therapist as much as possible?
Questions:
If your therapist wanted to use AI, and asked you for consent, how would you respond?
You can ask them:
Is it a problem if I say no?
How would AI enhance what we do here?
