In my first draft of writing this post I used the new AI tool built into Squarespace …and it what it produced was pedantic and annoying. I might have been projecting, but it felt cold too. It definitely wasn’t anything I would want to read. Of course AI has value and improves the more it learns, but even in what I just tried, it demonstrated the “artificial” part in its name. Artificial is fine and even good sometimes, but not in therapy.

Therapy in 2024 will be what it has always been — warm, human, socially and emotionally intelligent, not artificial but natural. Therapy will always bend and flex as the science progresses and as cultural needs evolve, but the elements of being human and of understanding pain in a way only other humans can will never be obselete.