My patients use ChatGPT for therapy. Now I use it too | Sarah Dargouth
TL;DR
Clinical psychologist Sarah Darghouth writes that patients now bring ChatGPT and Claude into therapy sessions for breakup decisions, relationship conflict and quick emotional framing. She sees real utility: AI can validate distress, structure conflict and suggest repair steps. But she also flags risks including false information, worsened anxiety, isolation, delusional thinking and suicidal thoughts.
Nauti's Take
This is not a flat anti-AI argument, which is why it lands. Darghouth acknowledges the utility without sanding down the risks.
The strongest point: AI can produce good lines, but healing is not always an output problem. Sometimes the slow, awkward, human mess is not the flaw in the system, but the place where change actually happens.
Briefingshow
The piece shows that AI therapy is no longer a future scenario but already part of clinical practice. The real tension is not whether chatbots can sometimes help, but whether their polished certainty crowds out the uncertainty where therapy often does its hardest work.
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