AI and Mental Health — Early Bird Registration

AI and Mental Health: Ethical and Clinical Considerations for Psychotherapists is a 3-hour Law and Ethics CE workshop designed to help mental health professionals understand and navigate the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and psychotherapy.

Participants will explore the legal, ethical, and clinical implications of AI in practice, including documentation tools, HIPAA compliance, telehealth platforms, liability concerns, AI companionship, AI relationships, AI grief, and AI-induced psychosis. Drawing on current ethics codes and real-world case examples, this training provides practical guidance and a framework for making sound clinical decisions in an increasingly AI-influenced world.

Whether you're tech-savvy or tech-skeptical, you'll leave with greater confidence in addressing AI-related issues with competence, compassion, and professional integrity.

Course Access: Participants will have access to the workshop recording, downloadable handouts, course materials, and CE certificate for 2 years following registration.

What You'll Learn

✓ The legal and regulatory implications of AI in psychotherapy, including HIPAA compliance, documentation tools, telehealth platforms, and liability exposure

✓ How to apply professional ethics codes to AI-related situations that existing guidelines were never designed to address

✓ Best practices for evaluating and responding to client use of ChatGPT and other AI tools between sessions

✓ The clinical and ethical considerations surrounding AI companionship, AI romance, AI affairs, emotional attachment, and AI-related grief

✓ How to identify, assess, and respond to AI-induced psychosis and other emerging client safety concerns

✓ A practical framework for discussing AI use with clients while maintaining ethical and professional standards

✓ Real-world case examples illustrating the challenges and opportunities AI presents in contemporary psychotherapy practice

✓ Strategies for integrating innovation responsibly while protecting client welfare and reducing professional risk

Continuing Education Information

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 LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Therapy that Works Institute programs are offered for NBCC credit (ACEP No. 7125). Additionally, the Therapy that Works Institute (Provider #1000141) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.

The Therapy that Works Institute is approved by the 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).

CE certificates will be awarded via email within 24 hours upon successful completion of all course requirements, including all course modules, course quiz, and course evaluation.