{"id":4147,"date":"2025-08-08T08:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betterlifecolorado.com\/old\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:40:16","slug":"ai-therapy-with-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betterlifecolorado.com\/old\/ai-therapy-with-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring The Use of AI Therapy with ChatGPT\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0.63)&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/betterlifecolorado.com\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/christin-hume-mfB1B1s4sMc-unsplash.jpg&#8221; background_blend=&#8221;overlay&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;114px||36px||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_post_title date=&#8221;off&#8221; comments=&#8221;off&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; title_font=&#8221;Poppins||||||||&#8221; title_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; meta_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_post_title][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;21px||0px||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text ul_position=&#8221;outside&#8221; ol_position=&#8221;outside&#8221; ol_item_indent=&#8221;39px&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;a5692afb-547a-4b32-98a1-ca66f61e0673&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Poppins|300|||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;justified&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2>Connect With Me, Robot<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s a complement to therapy. It\u2019s good for validation. It\u2019s free and never knows tiredness. In its own words, it is \u201cnot a licensed therapist, but can help in meaningful ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous studies about ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) serving as \u201ctherapists.\u201d A solid article from the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41599-023-02567-0\">Nature in 2024<\/a> states that it\u2019s \u201can easily accessible, good (and currently free) place to go for people with mental-health problems who have not yet sought professional help and have no psychotherapeutic experience\u201d (Nature, 2024). The article lists many pros and cons, and is worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Curious about the experience of sitting down on the couch in ChatGPT\u2019s office, I tested it out, acting as a patient with anxiety and depression who was having trouble sleeping. ChatGPT was immediately validating with language like \u201cwhen everything\u2019s piling up and you\u2019ve been running on empty for a while, your body and mind start sounding the alarm \u2014 and trouble sleeping is one of the first signs.\u201d Spot-on, I thought. It felt good hearing that. And then, lower in the paragraph, it wrote: \u201cOr if you\u2019re just looking for someone to sit with you in it for a second, I can do that too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the charade shattered. The void of the dark-mode chat screen did not feel like nervous system co-regulation; it felt like I was still alone. Despite that feeling, I kept typing.<\/p>\n<p>Again, ChatGPT provided plenty of validation \u2013 and advice, lots of advice. Advice is good to hear every so often, but the laundry list of to-dos, after ChatGPT broke things \u201cdown into parts\u201d was a lot, and I told it so. It recommended we prioritize \u2013 a good tactical shift \u2013 and then offered the grounding technique of 5 things you can see, 4 you can touch, etc. That was useful and even helpful \u2013 but it was not connection. And that\u2019s what I realized about using ChatGPT for a therapist: it can give rational approaches to problems, you can talk to it all night, but it can\u2019t hug you (and true, your therapist probably shouldn\u2019t be hugging you either, but you know what I mean).<\/p>\n<p>Humans have outranked ChatGPT with certain interventions, like with this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychiatry.org\/news-room\/news-releases\/new-research-human-vs-chatgpt-therapists\">CBT study in psychiatry.org<\/a>, and I understand that in America, where health insurance is costly and scarce, having a free resource to \u201ctalk to\u201d can be helpful and warranted. And that\u2019s cool. It doesn\u2019t help, though, when one of the biggest issues we have is an upward trend in isolation and loneliness \u2013 a trend exacerbated by tools like ChatGPT. Maybe ChatGPT can help someone enough that they venture out into the world to reduce their own loneliness, though I\u2019m going to surmise that the robot\u2019s therapeutic skills are not quite at the level of understanding long-term emotional cues and patterns.<\/p>\n<p>LLM\u2019s continue to advance at an astounding pace. The Nature article from last year is based on an outdated model, and the psychiatry.org article used a model that will also be surpassed, probably this year. The models will get smarter, they will learn new therapeutic techniques, and they will be the best mimic of humanity that humanity has ever produced. But will LLMs provide the connection and meaning that comes from sitting together in a room, across from your therapist after you said something subtle yet meaningful, and your tone was just so, and the therapist picked up on it and recognized its importance &#8211; and said nothing back, only smiled?<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<h2>References:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychiatry.org\/news-room\/news-releases\/new-research-human-vs-chatgpt-therapists\">https:\/\/www.psychiatry.org\/news-room\/news-releases\/new-research-human-vs-chatgpt-therapists<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41599-023-02567-0\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41599-023-02567-0<\/a>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connect With Me, Robot It\u2019s a complement to therapy. It\u2019s good for validation. It\u2019s free and never knows tiredness. 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