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 your story. It’s to understand 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. Unfortunately, human beings gain knowledge and understanding through friction and struggle. I don’t want to reduce my knowledge and understanding of you.
Do you want to be known and understood by your therapist as much as possible?
What do you want?
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?
