Counselling and psychotherapy

I often get asked for suggestions as to which mental health apps work best. These days, I also get the occasional request for AI-powered therapy. But what do we know so far about the effectiveness of AI therapy [...]

World events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and extremely rapid developments in artificial intelligence have greatly increased the interest in virtual therapy or 'therapy bots'. But the ethics of these remain obscure, ill-defined and under-examined. This post takes [...]

For what must be the hundredth time, I recently heard a therapist colleague say that artificial intelligence can never replicate humans, so it is irrelevant to psychotherapy. But the exponential growth of AI processing power will eventually impact greatly [...]