Respectfully, while I concur that there's a lot of influencer / life coach nonsense out there, I disagree that LLMs are the solution. Therapy isn't supposed to scale. It's the relationship that heals. A "relationship" with an LLM has an obvious, intrinsic, and fundamental problem.
That's not to say there isn't any place at all for use of AI in the mental health space. But they are in no way able to replace a living, empathetic human being; the dismal picture you paint of mental health workers does them a disservice. For context, my wife is an LMHC who runs a small group practice (and I have a degree in cognitive psychology though my career is in tech).
That's not to say there isn't any place at all for use of AI in the mental health space. But they are in no way able to replace a living, empathetic human being; the dismal picture you paint of mental health workers does them a disservice. For context, my wife is an LMHC who runs a small group practice (and I have a degree in cognitive psychology though my career is in tech).
This ChatGPT interaction is illustrative of the dangers in putting trust in a LLM: https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina