Data Tracking

Is Your Therapist Secretly Using AI to Track Your Sessions? What You Need to Know A recent investigation by the Los Angeles Times has brought to light a practice that many therapy clients might find unsettling: some mental health providers are using artificial intelligence tools to transcribe, analyze, and store recordings of therapy sessions—often without explicit patient consent. If you’re in therapy or considering it, this raises serious questions about privacy, trust, and your control over deeply personal conversations. ...

When Your Therapist Uses AI to Listen You go to therapy to talk about things you wouldn’t share anywhere else. That’s the whole point: a private space where you can be honest. But in the last few months, investigations have shown that some mental health providers—especially those offering online services—are using artificial intelligence tools to analyze what you say during sessions. And many patients never got a clear explanation that this was happening. ...

Is your therapist using AI to track your sessions? What to know about privacy risks If you’ve been in therapy over the past few years, there’s a chance your sessions were recorded and analyzed by artificial intelligence—without your explicit knowledge. A recent investigation by the Los Angeles Times found that a number of mental health providers have quietly adopted AI tools that transcribe conversations, perform sentiment analysis, and flag behavioral patterns. For patients who trust their therapists with their most private thoughts, this revelation raises uncomfortable questions about consent, confidentiality, and control over sensitive data. ...