Are We Really Better at Empathy Than the Bots? What the Research Says About AI in Therapy

Podcast: The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy · Curt Widhalm, LMFT and Katie Vernoy, LMFT

Opublikowano: 2026-07-27

Are We Really Better at Empathy Than the Bots? What the Research Says About AI in Therapy AI in therapy, therapy chatbots, and AI empathy: what the latest research actually says, and what it means for your clinical work. Curt Widhalm, LMFT, and Katie Vernoy, LMFT close out AI month by setting the hot takes aside and looking at what the research actually says about AI in mental health. They walk through the Dartmouth Therabot randomized controlled trial, where an expert-built, safety-monitored therapy chatbot outperformed a waitlist control, and a Communications Psychology study in which...