AI and Mental Health:
Ethical and Clinical Considerations for PsychotherapistsÂ
AI Is Transforming Everything
Are You Ready?
Your Clients Are Already Using AI
 They're seeking advice, validation, emotional support, and even relationship guidance from AI systems before they ever sit down with you.
By the time they walk through your door, AI may already be influencing what they think, expect, and disclose.
AI Is Entering Clinical Practice
 Documentation assistants, note generators, EHR integrations, and telehealth platforms are introducing powerful new capabilities—but also significant ethical and legal considerations.
Do you know what you're agreeing to when you activate those features?
New Clinical Challenges Are Emerging
What happens when clients form deep emotional attachments to AI?
Questions surrounding AI companionship, AI romance, dependency, grief, and even AI-induced psychosis are no longer hypothetical.
Therapists are encountering these issues in real clinical settings right now.
Get Ahead of the Curve
You don't need to become an AI expert.
You do need to understand the ethical, clinical, and legal implications AI creates for your clients and your practice.
AI and Mental Health: Ethical and Clinical Considerations for Psychotherapists is a 3-hour workshop designed to provide the legal literacy, ethical grounding, and clinical confidence needed to navigate AI responsibly.
What You'll Learn
| ✓ | The real legal risks of AI tools in your practice — documentation, telehealth, HIPAA, and liability |
| âś“ | How to apply your ethics code to situations it was never written to address |
| âś“ | The clinical and ethical landscape of AI companionship, AI romance, AI affairs, and AI grief |
| âś“ | How to recognize and respond to AI-induced psychosis |
| âś“ | A clear framework for client safety conversations around AI |
Register Today!
AI and Mental Health
3 hours of law and ethics CE
Join us live Friday, July 10 (9am–12pm PT / 12–3pm ET)
or
Catch the replay on your own schedule.
Course Details
3 Hours of Legal and Ethical CEsÂ
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the problems clients bring to therapy — and the legal and ethical landscape therapists must navigate — faster than our training ever anticipated. This workshop provides a practical overview of AI use in clinical practice, including documentation tools, telehealth platforms, HIPAA considerations, and liability risks, alongside the emerging clinical challenges of AI companions, AI relationships, AI affairs, and AI-induced psychosis. Drawing on current ethics codes and real case examples, participants will leave with a concrete framework for responding to AI-related clinical and safety concerns with both competence and compassion. Whether you're tech-savvy or tech-skeptical, you'll walk away ready to meet your clients where they are.
Course Goal and Learning Objectives:Â
Goal:Â Participants will develop the ethical reasoning, legal literacy, and clinical skills necessary to navigate AI-related issues in contemporary psychotherapy practice.
Learning Objectives:Â At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Identify at least 3 legal and regulatory considerations relevant to AI use in clinical practice, including HIPAA compliance, documentation tools, and liability exposure.
- Apply at least 3 professional ethics codes to clinical decision-making involving AI-assisted practice, including telehealth platforms and AI-generated content.
- Identify at least 2 situations where client AI use warrants clinical monitoring for potential safety concerns.Â
CE Approval: This course has been approved for 3 hours of law and ethics continuing education by the NBCC. Additionally, this course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of law and ethics continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences
Therapy that Works Institute programs are offered for NBCC credit (NBCC ACEP No. 7125). Additionally, the Therapy that Works Institute (Provider #1000141) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs.Â
The Therapy that Works Institute is approved by New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0146).
Therapy that Works Institute maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
Course CE certificates will be awarded via email within 24 hours upon completion of all course modules, course quiz, and course evaluation.Â
Audience:Â This course is intended for both new and experienced mental health clinicians, including counselors, family therapists, and social workers.Â
Accommodations/Grievances: Questions for accommodations and/or grievances related to the course should be directed to [email protected]. These communications will be responded to within 2 working days.
Diversity Policy:Â The instructor and all participants agree to respect and not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program, or activity based on gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Participants whose behavior is disruptive for any reason may be removed from the program/course without receiving CE credit.
Cost:Â $89
Access: Participants have access to the online course for 2 years to watch video, download handouts, and receive CE certificate.
Refund Policy:Â No refunds after purchase.
Meet Your Instructor
Dr. Diane Gehart
I've spent much of my career trying to figure out how to do therapy well, going to countless workshops to learn numerous theoretical models.
In addition to working with nearly 250,000 clients as a therapist and supervisor, I put my many years of professional training into books and became the only person to write both a leading textbook in counseling theories and one on family therapy theories.
However, after nearly 30 years as a member of the academic community, I've come to the conclusion that the field of mental health needs to find a better way to train its professionals—both those entering the field and those in it for decades.Â
Rather than spend the rest of my career fighting a deeply entrenched educational system, I have decided to simply offer a saner approach to becoming a highly effective mental health professional for those who are interested.Â
You're welcome to join me if you too believe there has to be an easier way to do this work well.
Get 4 Additional Ethics CEs
for 50% Off
Register for AI and Mental Health and choose to add Dr. Gehart's bestselling law and ethics CE course for 50% off:
Everyday EthicsÂ
Everyday Ethics covers the fundamental laws and ethical concepts in mental health, including the purpose of professional ethics, scopes of competence and practice, privilege, confidentiality, informed consent, dual relationships, consultation requirements, and business ethics. Emphasis is placed on how to practically manage the most common ethical and legal issues in daily practice, including demonstrations of how to obtain verbal informed consent.
What you'll get:
- 4 hours of on-demand CE credit
- 2 full years to earn your CEs
- Clearly organized set of 13 lessons that can be used for future reference
- Demonstration videos for informed consent
- Sample informed consent forms
Register Today!
AI and Mental Health
3 hours of law and ethics CE
Join us live Friday, July 10 (9am–12pm PT / 12–3pm ET)
or
Catch the replay on your own schedule.
