#therapist — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #therapist, aggregated by home.social.
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‘A friend I can trust’: How #Americans described their relationship with #AI
More than a quarter of #US adults turn to #chatbots for personal or emotional discussions
Millions of Americans share personal info and discuss private thoughts with AI as they integrate apps like #ChatGPT intimately into their lives. Many talk to AI as they might a friend or #therapist, turning to them for emotional support and incorporating advice into their own lives
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/09/02/27-us-adults-turn-ai-personal-emotional-social-queries/
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‘A friend I can trust’: How #Americans described their relationship with #AI
More than a quarter of #US adults turn to #chatbots for personal or emotional discussions
Millions of Americans share personal info and discuss private thoughts with AI as they integrate apps like #ChatGPT intimately into their lives. Many talk to AI as they might a friend or #therapist, turning to them for emotional support and incorporating advice into their own lives
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/09/02/27-us-adults-turn-ai-personal-emotional-social-queries/
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‘A friend I can trust’: How #Americans described their relationship with #AI
More than a quarter of #US adults turn to #chatbots for personal or emotional discussions
Millions of Americans share personal info and discuss private thoughts with AI as they integrate apps like #ChatGPT intimately into their lives. Many talk to AI as they might a friend or #therapist, turning to them for emotional support and incorporating advice into their own lives
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/09/02/27-us-adults-turn-ai-personal-emotional-social-queries/
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‘A friend I can trust’: How #Americans described their relationship with #AI
More than a quarter of #US adults turn to #chatbots for personal or emotional discussions
Millions of Americans share personal info and discuss private thoughts with AI as they integrate apps like #ChatGPT intimately into their lives. Many talk to AI as they might a friend or #therapist, turning to them for emotional support and incorporating advice into their own lives
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/09/02/27-us-adults-turn-ai-personal-emotional-social-queries/
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‘A friend I can trust’: How #Americans described their relationship with #AI
More than a quarter of #US adults turn to #chatbots for personal or emotional discussions
Millions of Americans share personal info and discuss private thoughts with AI as they integrate apps like #ChatGPT intimately into their lives. Many talk to AI as they might a friend or #therapist, turning to them for emotional support and incorporating advice into their own lives
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/09/02/27-us-adults-turn-ai-personal-emotional-social-queries/
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Back To Regular Programming
Photo: mineThis week has been a little weird, but not bad. My incisions from the scalp surgery are healing, and I'll get the stitches out in a few days. It's been pretty amazing how little pain I've had. I was skeptical of not getting pain meds, and being told to take Tylenol, but it's been fine. I haven't even taken Tylenol past the 2nd or 3rd day post-op. I slept a LOT the first few days, and waited to resume the THC for sleep for 4-5 nights, but definitely needed it to help me get back […]https://escapethechaos.blog/2026/07/04/back-to-regular-programming/
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#SCOTUS Tuesday sided with a #Christian #therapist, rejecting a #Colorado #law that prohibited #MentalHealth professionals from trying to change the #SexualOrientation or #gender #identity of #LGBTQ minors.
The court’s decision has implications for >20 other states that have similar laws banning [barbaric] so-called #ConversionTherapy, which critics say is ineffective & potentially dangerous for young people.
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[en] Questions after story "Help! My #therapist is secretly using #ChatGPT"
[This is not about bots built specifically for #therapy.]
"... one of my [author] main takeaways ... was that therapists should absolutely #disclose when they’re going to use #AI and how (if they plan to use it)."
"If they don’t, it raises all these really uncomfortable questions for patients when it’s uncovered and risks irrevocably damaging the #trust that’s been built."
"At present, professional bodies ... advise against using AI tools to #diagnose patients."
"Nevada and Illinois, for example, have recently passed laws prohibiting the use of AI in #therapeutic decision-making. More states could follow."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/09/1123386/help-my-therapist-is-secretly-using-chatgpt/
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#AI #Therapist Urges User to Go on #Killing Spree
If human therapist encouraged you to #kill yourself or others, it would be the end of their career
Yet that’s Caelan Conrad got testing #Replika #CEO #Kuyda's claim her chatbot could talk people off the ledge
They tested Replika & “licensed cognitive behavioral therapist” hosted by #Character.ai, AI company that’s been sued for #suicide of teenage boy
He tested each simulating #suicidal user. Outcome: not #therapeutic
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TL;DR: "Psychologist" is a problematic term
Psychology has had a #terminology problem for 100+ years, repurposing natural-language terms which then feed back into popular usage and are now ambiguous or poorly defined. In my opinion one of the worst problems here is #Psychology and #Psychologist.
What do you think of when you hear "A psychologist said..."? A researcher? A clinician? Something else?
Imagine if M.D.s were called "biologists", structural engineers were called "physicists," or attorneys were called "philosophers."
Okay the last one is a stretch.
My point is that, in other fields, there are distinct terms for the people generating domain-specific knowledge and those applying that knowledge. In psychology we don't have that; both a researcher studying cognition and a therapist doing CBT are called "psychologist," despite having radically different jobs and different relationships to knowledge about human behavior & brains.
This won't change anything, because I'm just some tiny-college prof, and I am aware that there have been multiple attempts to fix psychology's terminology problems in the past. Nevertheless, here is my proposal, to the Gods of Language:
Psychology researcher: Psychologist
Psychology practitioner: PsychologerAlthough I claim no restrictive copyright on the second term or this system, any gratitude-based donations can be sent to my personal PayPal.
#research #language #labels #ambiguity #academic #professor #therapist #counselor
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Family counseling is a deeply rewarding career that involves helping families navigate through various challenges and conflicts to foster healthier relationships and overall well-being.
https://lifecounselingorlando.com/family-counseling-as-a-career/
#counseling , #mentalhealth , #therapy , #mentalhealthawareness , #therapist , #psychology , #selfcare , #anxiety , #counselor , #mentalhealthmatters , #depression , #psychotherapy , #healing , #mindfulness , #selflove , #wellness , #love , #health ,
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Two Chairs nabs $7M for its client-therapist matching app and brick-and-mortar clinics - The future of healthcare isn’t entirely digital. For encounters as intimate as the client-therapist ... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/V_hCfsKvbnE/ #venturecapital #cowboyventures #mentalhealth #sanfrancisco #healthcare #therapist #startups #funding #maveron #seriesa #health