{"id":405,"date":"2026-04-15T06:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronaltmantherapy.com\/?page_id=405"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:35:47","slug":"ai-assisted-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aaronaltmantherapy.com\/?page_id=405","title":{"rendered":"AI-assisted therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this article series, I look at how people are using LLMs to try to help themselves, what might go right or wrong with that, and likely pros and cons versus a human therapist.  I also talk about some systemic concerns about privacy and model training.  I provide some preliminary suggestions for people who want to use LLMs for self-help on how to do that so that you don&#8217;t give your data away and otherwise keep yourself as safe as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Articles in the series:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-page-list\"><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/aaronaltmantherapy.com\/?page_id=489\">AI-assisted therapy: why I&#8217;m writing about it<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/aaronaltmantherapy.com\/?page_id=493\">AI-assisted therapy: how to do it<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/aaronaltmantherapy.com\/?page_id=501\">AI-assisted therapy: what are LLMs probably good at?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/aaronaltmantherapy.com\/?page_id=496\">AI-assisted therapy: shortcomings and pitfalls<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please shoot me an email if I&#8217;ve missed an important point, gotten anything significantly wrong, or if you have other thoughts or comments: <a href=\"mailto:aaron@aaronaltmantherapy.com\">aaron@aaronaltmantherapy.com<\/a>. 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