Key points

Many clients already use AI tools like ChatGPT for journaling, emotional regulation, and reflection.

AI offers benefits such as pattern recognition, grounding exercises, and practicing new perspectives.

Risks include privacy concerns, misinformation, and over-reliance.

Therapists who experiment with AI gain insight into client experiences and better guide its safe use.

Just last week, a client told me she woke up in the middle of the night with her mind racing. Instead of spiraling for hours, she opened ChatGPT, something we’d already talked about in session, and started interactive journaling. Within 15 minutes, she was falling back to sleep. That’s not a replacement for therapy . That’s a real-time application of therapeutic tools, made accessible when she needed them m

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