Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital support tools

Some clients choose to use AI-based apps or chat tools that offer emotional support or therapy-like conversations. These are separate from, and not part of, the therapy and treatment I provide.

AI tools do not know you as a person over time, do not hold a duty of care, and cannot reliably recognise risk or crisis. They may sound confident even when they are inaccurate. Anything you share with them may be stored or used in ways that fall outside our confidentiality and my control.

I retain full professional responsibility for the care I provide. My decisions are made through professional judgement, years of academic, clinical and ethical training, and are not handed to AI systems.

If you use AI tools for personal support, you are warmly encouraged to bring this into our work, so we can reflect together on how it may be affecting you. This is an invitation, never a judgement.