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Psychotherapy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Navigating the Present
Preparing for the Future

A  7-hour Self-Study Course

“We are pretty much at the first step [with Artificial intelligence and mental health]."

There is no sense in sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that this is not going to stick around. It isn’t some fickle fad. It is going to permanently change, transform, and disrupt mental health therapy as we know it.

Lance Elliot

 World-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

ArtiFicial Intelligence is TRansforming Psychotherapy.
Like it or not.

As highlighted in the quote above, dismissing AI’s influence on the mental health field as a passing or inconsequential trend ignores that it is going to fundamentally reshape therapeutic practices.

Its ability to analyze vast amounts of data is already marking a significant shift from traditional therapy methods. And ongoing developments are happening faster than any technology we’ve seen before.

AI is revolutionizing the accessibility, efficiency, and effectiveness of mental health services. 

And yes, AI has several drawbacks as well as  benefits, but  the bottom line is we can’t stop it, so it’s best that we learn as much about it as possible because soon we will be forced to. 

While AI certainly has its drawbacks along with its benefits, the reality is that it’s here to stay. It’s crucial to learn as much as possible now, as we’ll soon have no choice but to adapt.

THIS IS A PIVOTAL TIME FOR THE THERAPY PROFESSION

If you wish to stay at the forefront of the psychotherapy field, it’s crucial to stay informed about AI and its evolving role in mental  health, both for now and for the future.

You certainly don’t want to be left behind.

By learning about AI and where it’s headed, you can use its ability to provide innovative and effective treatment, improve client outcomes, ensure ethical management and application of new tools, streamline your workflow, and save time.

Additionally, it’s important to understand AI’s limitations and anticipate future developments in the field as they increasingly become woven into psychotherapy practice.

"Having previously taken a course with the Mind Body Training Institute, I signed up because I trust that you offer high-quality material."

It’s impossible to ignore the impact of artificial intelligence on the world and on the psychotherapy field.

The course content was not only interesting and informative but also incredibly helpful. I learned a lot and appreciate your dedication to staying on top of this crucial topic.

The comprehensive list of resources, insightful interviews, and highly effective demonstration videos were particularly impressive. It’s unbelievable that these AI tools already exist—I was amazed… and this is just the beginning!

This course is essential for therapists. AI is a reality. We can’t ignore that it’s impacting mental health care very fast. We must stay informed and be prepared.
Thank you for offering the course.

Inessa Mil'berg

Inessa Mil'berg

Counselor, LPCC
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Why Invest in in LearNing About Ai and mental health?

Being that it is still in the early days, you won’t fully experience all the potential benefits listed below just yet.  The realization of them will significantly increase in the months and years ahead.

This course shows you how you can benefit from learning about the role of AI in psychotherapy, explore some of the tools currently available, and help you understand what’s in store for the future.

  • Stay Relevant: Being informed and adept with the latest technologies ensures your services remain relevant to the needs of clients. This is even more important for younger tech-savvy clients, who are already using AI tools.
  • Remain Competitive: Keeping up-to-date with AI and mental health technology ensures you stay competitive by offering innovative, evidence-based treatments. 

  • Improve Decision Making: Grasping how AI is currently used in mental health allows you to make informed decisions about how you might integrate AI tools into your practice.

  • Optimize Assessment and Treatment Plans: By integrating AI tools and insights, you improve assessments and enhance treatment plans, improving client outcomes.

  • Enhance Therapeutic Techniques:  AI tools can provide deeper insights into client behavior patterns and emotional states, enabling you to tailor your approach to each individual’s unique needs.

  • Meet Client Expectations:
    As more people become aware of these tools, they’ll expect therapists to use the most up-to-date technologies.
  • Expand Your Services: AI provides the opportunity to offer new services, enhancing client engagement, satisfaction and outcome.

  • Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness:  AI can analyze data quickly and more accurately, freeing up time—allowing you to focus more on clients’ well-being.

  • Understand the Risks of AI and the Ethical Considerations:  Understanding the risks and evolving ethical implications ensures you maintain the highest standards of client care when using the tools.
  • Streamline Administrative Tasks: AI can automate many practice management tasks, allowing more time for you and client care.

  • Future-Proof Your Practice: AI will help future-proof your practice and ensure you’re a part of shaping the future of mental health care.

"The course truly exceeded my expectations."

As a therapist, I work with many neurodivergent clients, and 30-40% use AI tools for additional support outside our sessions. I took the course because I wanted to understand these tools to better help my clients.

Before the course, I had limited knowledge about AI and found the concept intimidating.
However, this course offered a balanced and unbiased overview of the current AI landscape, clearly explaining the technologies and their application in therapy.

I appreciated the video demonstrations and the case studies, which helped demystify AI for me. I also realized that AI is already present in some of the tools I use.

The course opened my eyes to AI’s potential to make therapy more accessible. It has given me the knowledge I need to stay current in my field and prepare for future developments.

Claire Palmer

Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Norwich, UK

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THis Course

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IN MENTAL HEALTH

In the first module, you’ll gain a basic understanding of AI and its history. The module will also discuss AI and its applications in mental health care. 

You’ll learn how AI can improve efficiency and personalization and explore its emerging role in mental health, including data analysis, treatment customization, and client support. 

MODULE 2:AI and Mental health Assessment

In this module, you’ll learn about AI’s transformative applications in mental health assessment.

The module will explore how AI’s capacity to analyze vast amounts of data enables the identification of complex patterns, which can improve assessments, inform decision-making, monitor progress, and predict outcomes. 

Specific examples of diagnostic tools are shared to illustrate these points, highlighting both AI’s potential and limitations in the mental health field.

MODULE 3: AI-DRIVEN THERAPEUTIC TOOLS AND CHATBOTS

Module 3 provides an overview of the cutting-edge AI-driven therapeutic tools that are transforming the field of psychotherapy.

These innovative technologies include mood-monitoring apps, immersive virtual reality experiences, chatbots, and wearable devices that track physiological indicators.

Moreover, emotion recognition speech analysis technologies and personalized content delivery systems can recommend tailored information for clients based on their individual mental health conditions.

These tools can also monitor treatment progress, making psychotherapy more efficient, effective, and personalized. You’ll also learn the limitations of these technologies and where they are headed in the future.

MODULE 4: Ethical and REgulatory considerations

In Module 4, the course delves into the ethical and regulatory challenges associated with using AI in psychotherapy.

It explores the nuanced professional responsibilities that come with integrating these technologies into therapeutic practices.

You’ll learn the importance of ethically blending AI tools with professional judgment and client interactions to enhance clinical decision-making.

MODULE 5: Streamlining Client Management with AI

This module discusses how AI in client management systems can transform practice management.

AI technology can automate many tasks, such as client note-taking, the intake process, data collection, and initial assessments. These tools can empower you to deliver high-quality care from the outset and save you hours of time.

MODULE 6:PREPARING FOR The Future of Ai

This module addresses what the future holds for AI in mental health.

We explore both the exciting possibilities and the critical challenges, including ethical and legal issues, the need for therapists to evolve their practice, and the potential transformation of your role with clients.

The module also explores how AI may impact society positively and negatively.

"This course is ahead of the curve. It's opened the door to what can seem scary, making it applicable to therapy and less intimidating."

As a therapist with a keen interest in technology, I still found the intersection of AI and therapy daunting. I took this course better to understand AI and its implications for our work. The course was very useful. It addressed ethical issues right from the start, which I appreciated. It was pitched perfectly for therapists because the examples were relevant and practical.

It provided a solid grounding in AI as it relates to therapy, and made it easier to consider integrating these tools into my practice. The resources were beneficial, and the demos and interviews were fascinating, giving a thorough overview of AI and how it applies to therapy.

The lessons on the notes apps and the founders’ insights in the interviews were particularly helpful.

The ChatGPT admin demo was mind-blowing and practical, showing exactly how it applies to therapy practice.

I’ve made a list of how I can incorporate this information and some of the apps into my practice. I can see some of them will be useful for my clients, especially those who could benefit from additional support between sessions.

It’s clear that AI is impacting the therapy field, whether we’re ready or not.

This knowledge is crucial for therapists, especially those working with young people. We need to meet our clients where they are, and this course helps us do just that with open-mindedness and a thorough grounding in the application of AI to therapy.

Anna Rose

Psychotherapist, Drama Therapist, and Clinical Supervisor
London, England

EXTRAS INCLUDED IN THIS SELF-STUDY COURSE

The complexities of Regulating AI and Mental health InterView - with MichEAla Slipp [recorded interview]

This interview with therapist Micheala Slipp explores the challenges of establishing regulations for AI and mental health. She discusses some of the important regulatory issues related to AI and shares some early developments in this area.

Michaela is a Clinical Supervisor, Educator, Counselor, and Art Therapist. She teaches graduate-level art therapy and counselling courses in Canada and holds a Doctor of Education in Distance Education.

She is currently completing a Master of Laws in Health Law at Osgoode Law School, York University, where she is examining digital governance in health care. She is also completing post-doctoral research on regulations in counselling therapy across Canada.

10 VIDEO Demonstrations of Leading
Ai MEntal health TOOLS

These video demonstrations show you 10 AI tools.  They include chatbots, mood trackers, ChatGPT (a learning language model), and AI note-taking tools currently used in mental health. 

The demonstrations illustrate AI’s transformative potential in making mental health care more effective, efficient, and inclusive. They also illustrate some of these apps’ limitations.

The demonstrations also show how AI administrative tools can help with client engagement and management and save therapists’ time, allowing them more time for direct work with their clients. 

Conversations with DEvelopers of 3 popular AI Mental health TOOLS
[RECORDED INTERVIEWS]

In these interviews, you’ll learn how 3 popular mental health apps were developed, their value in providing mental health services, their limitations, and how they might be improved in the future as AI becomes more sophisticated.

AI and Mental Health Resource LIST [PDF DOcument]

The course includes a resource list consisting of general information about AI and mental health, digital AI tools for clients and therapists, articles on AI regulation, and research articles on various topics.

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ABout Your Trainers
Juliet Austin and CliNTON POWER

Juliet Austin, M.A., formerly a psychotherapist based in Vancouver, Canada, has over 25 years of experience helping therapists create scientifically-backed website and sales page content and build successful practices.

Clinton Power has been a relationship therapist in private practice since 2003. He works with clients online in Australia and overseas and in-person from his office in the NSW Northern Rivers. Clinton created and owned the Australia Counselling Directory before he sold it in 2019.

Juliet and Clinton co-founded the Mind Body Training Institute in 2016 and remain co-owners. They are deeply interested in the continuously evolving intersection of AI and mental health, which they find both fascinating and concerning. While they realize the exact future of AI and mental health is unknown, they understand that AI is here to stay and will only become more advanced in the months and years to come.

While concern about the ongoing development of generative AI is legitimate...psychologists should accept AI as a reality and work with rather than against it.

Jessica Jackson

Psychologist, PhD. Monitor on Psychology Magazine, APA.

" ...apprehension [about AI in mental health] is very much justified. I get it. There are going to be some failures as well as some successes. But I don’t think this is going away. The potential benefits are far too great to ignore. "

Muhammad Mamdani

Data Scientist, UofT, UofT News

“We need the clinical community to wake up and embrace responsibility of these [AI] technologies. It would be easy to dismiss how good they are, how quickly they bake themselves into pillars of society, until it’s too late."

Johannes Eichstaed

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

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SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU GET IN THE COURSE

 6 core content modules with 17 lessons 

Videos, audios, and transcripts of all lessons

Copies of the slides of all lessons

Worksheets to help integrate your learning

 A resources list  with links to tools, articles, videos, and research papers

10 video demonstrations of leading AI tools

 3 interview recordings with the creators of 3 highly popular AI tools are available for use right now (videos and audios are included)

A recorded interview with Psychotherapist Michaela Slipp on “The Complexities of Regulating AI and Mental Health”  (video and audio is included)

180 days access to the course materials in our learning center – OR, download them and keep them forever

Certificate of Completion for 7 hours of training

$347

$147

Frequently Asked Questions

It’s hard to predict what will happen in the long term.

In the short term, there will be both benefits and drawbacks.

We’re offering this course, to educate therapists on both the positive and negative aspects.

One thing that is for certain is that AI will impact on the field. We have no choice about that, so it is better to be prepared than not.

As we’ve indicated on this page – AI is here to stay whether you agree with it or not. Whether you like it or not.

There are definitely reasons to be concerned about AI, and we cover these issues in the course. However, one thing is for sure…

AI in psychotherapy is NOT going away.

Instead, it’s going to continue to advance at rapid speeds.

It’s only a matter of time before AI is widely integrated into therapeutic practice.

The sooner you learn about what is happening in the field and how people are using it, the more equipped you’ll be.

Further, as more people become aware of these tools, they are going to expect therapists to be using the most up-to-date technologies.

Also, the more therapists are involved in using the tools and providing feedback, the safer and more helpful the tools will be.

Some tools are available now but must be used cautiously as they have limitations, as we discuss in the course.

However, many of these tools are bound to be perfected in the coming months and years.

Other tools are still in development, and others will be created as AI technology evolves.

Millions of people are already using these tools, so it behooves you to know what they’re using and how they’re using them.

You can then inform clients about their limitations and guide them in using them safely.

This course is 100% self study. You’ll go through the 7 hours of materials at your own pace.

This self-study course consists of 7 hours of content – including the core content, 10 demonstrations of tools, 4 interviews with app developers and experts in the field, and a resource list.

We have reduced the fee to help make it available to as many therapists as possible as this information is important and will be critical in the future. 

$147 CAD for Canadian residents 

$147 AUD for Australian and New Zealand residents. *Australians add GST. 

$147 USD for USA and all other residents

Canadians pay in Canadian dollars.

Australians and New Zealanders pay in Australian dollars.

All other participants pay in USD

For all participants, you can download your certificate of completion for 7 hours of training once you pass the short course quiz.

USA

We are not officially approved for CEU’s in the USA. However, we will give you a certificate of completion for 7 hours of professional development. You’ll have to check with your professional association or licensing board to see if they will give you credit for the course.

CANADA

The Canadian Counselling Association (CCPA) typically will give you credit if you give them your certificate. We are not officially approved for other CEUs in Canada. However, we will give you a certificate of completion for 7 hours of training. You’ll have to check with your professional association to see if they will give you credit for the course. 

AUSTRALIA

ACA: The course is approved for 7 OPD (ongoing professional development) points for members of the Australia Counselling Association (ACA).

PACFA: This course counts towards 7 hours of category B CPD points for The Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).

You’ll have access to the materials in our learning center for 180 days (6 months) after your date of purchase.

However, you can download all materials and keep them forever.

If you decide the course isn’t what you want, we’ll refund 100% of your fee if you let us know within 7 days of purchasing the course. 

MOney-Back Guarantee

If you decide the course isn’t what you want, we’ll refund 100% of your fee if you request a refund within 7 days of your purchase.  

$347

$147

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