Mental Health Privacy

Is Your Therapist Using AI to Track Your Sessions? What You Need to Know A recent investigation by the Los Angeles Times (published June 22, 2026) revealed that some mental health platforms are using artificial intelligence to analyze therapy sessions—often without clear patient awareness or explicit consent. For anyone using online therapy or mental health apps, this raises serious privacy questions. Here’s what we know and how you can protect your session data. ...

Your Therapist May Be Using AI to Record Your Sessions. Here’s How to Protect Your Privacy If you’re in therapy, you probably assume that what you say stays in the room—or at least in a locked filing cabinet. But a growing number of therapists now use AI tools to record, transcribe, and summarise sessions. The pitch is convenience: AI note-taking saves the therapist time, so they can focus more on you. But for patients, the privacy trade-off is rarely explained. ...