Forbes December 9, 2025
Lance Eliot

In today’s column, I examine the rising trend of therapists getting confronted by erstwhile clients who walk in the door with mental health solutions that have been generated via AI. It’s an easy task for the client to undertake. All they need to do is ask generative AI a simple question or two and then get instant answers that supposedly will aid or cure their expressed mental health qualms. They then eagerly present the AI-produced responses to their therapist and expect the therapist to seemingly blindly abide by the AI’s indications.

It’s an increasingly prolonged tussle in which the therapist must contend with not just the needs of their client but also interpret, reinterpret, and potentially refute what the so-called...

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