A Therapist's Blog

According to a recent Harvard Business Review  report, therapy and companionship became the number one way people—including children and teens—talk to ChatGPT and other AI Chatbots in 2025. While that is not necessarily bad or wrong, it does pose two questions parents need answers to: Why? And what should we do about it? Why are kids turning more and more to “AI Companions,” which is a term coined by Common Sense Media  to describe AI Chatbots?  In short, it’s because ChatGPT

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Over the weekend, I attended a workshop about how to be happy. Part way through the seminar, I heard another attendee mutter, “...Life,...