AI: What Therapists Need to Know

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This interactive workshop invites counsellors and psychotherapists to explore the emerging role of artificial intelligence (AI) in therapeutic practice. The session will focus on ethical, legal, relational, and professional considerations surrounding AI, including how it may reshape client safety, confidentiality, and professional identity.

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Overview:

This interactive workshop invites counsellors and psychotherapists to explore the emerging role of artificial intelligence (AI) in therapeutic practice. The session will focus on ethical, legal, relational, and professional considerations surrounding AI, including how it may reshape client safety, confidentiality, and professional identity.

Participants will gain an understanding of key AI concepts such as machine learning, large language models (LLMs), and AI-assisted therapeutic tools, while reflecting on their implications for practice. Through experiential exercises, simulated AI interactions, and reflective discussion, attendees will examine how AI may influence therapeutic presence, empathy, and relational depth, and identify practical, ethical, and creative ways to integrate AI into clinical development, supervision, and professional growth.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this CPD session, participants will be able to:

  • Reflect on the emerging role of AI in therapeutic practice and its ethical, relational, legal, and professional implications.
  • Develop awareness of key AI concepts and their potential impact on clinical work.
  • Consider the implications of AI for client safety, confidentiality, and professional identity.
  • Explore how AI may influence therapeutic presence, empathy, and relational depth.
  • Identify practical and ethical ways to integrate AI into professional and supervisory contexts.

Fees:

  • Metanoia Staff: £10 (Please note, staff tickets are non-refundable)
  • Metanoia students: £35
  • Members: £55
  • External attendees: £80

Location: Online via Zoom

Members may self-certify at checkout — eligibility may be verified post-registration.)

Important Information for Online Attendees

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Event Speakers

Claire Clancey

Senior Academic Lecturer, MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy: A Humanistic approach

Claire Clancey PGCertHE, PG Cert, BSc (Hons), Dip Couns, MBACP I am a Senior Academic Lecturer and qualified higher education educator (in the Teaching and Learning of Counselling and Psychotherapy) , teaching on the Diploma and MSc in Humanistic Psychotherapy. I am the Online and Phone Therapy (OPT) Lead tutor across the BSc programmes and Course Lead for Metanoia's Professional Award in the Facilitation of Online and Phone Therapy. I am also one of the institute's AI Leads and an Educational Lead for Teaching, Learning, Assessment and Feedback (TLAF). Alongside my academic work, I practice as a therapist and supervisor in private practice. My work is grounded in a humanistic approach, drawing on Person-Centred, Gestalt and Transactional Analysis modalities. I have also undertaken psychotherapy studies in existential and psychodynamic approaches. My trauma-informed practice focuses on long-term therapeutic work with clients experiencing trauma, domestic violence, suicidal ideation and severe anxiety. Beyond Metanoia, I am an External Examiner for three counselling undergraduate programmes validated by Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) and an External Consultant for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy(BACP), supporting the redevelopment of the national Online and Phone Therapy curriculum framework. Across these roles, my work focuses on curriculum development, quality assurance and professional standards within the sector.