Forbes December 22, 2025
In today’s column, I gingerly examine the unstated realization that human therapists are bound to fade or expire, while AI-based mental health advising seemingly lasts forever (well, that’s what some assume). On the human side, reality dictates that a human therapist will eventually no longer be on this earth. Some therapists make arrangements beforehand to hopefully ensure that their clients are accommodated when such a circumstance arises. Others do not. A client or patient can be left in quite a lurch.
Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) that provide AI-based mental health advisement will presumably never die. Ergo, the AI will always be available to those who are using the AI for said purposes. Is that indeed a valid...







