Adapting To The Latest Breakthroughs of AI in Psychotherapy
Stress-Testing AI: Ethics Risks, Client Reliance, and Chatbot Behavior
Your Presenter:
Eric Groh, LPC BC-TMH CPCS ACS
Former Composite Board President and Complaints Investigator
- Fri, 6/19/2026
- 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST , 2.0 NBCC Hours Ethics
- Starting at 89.00. Early Bird Ends Soon.
- Live Synchronous Webinar
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- 2 NBCC HRs Ethics- All CEs accepted as face-to-face for LPC, SW and MFT by the GA Composite Board.
Artificial intelligence is already shaping the therapy room—even when therapists choose not to use it.
Millions of people now turn to chatbots for emotional support, advice, self-reflection, and help making sense of their lives. Many clients are using AI as a “hidden second therapist” between sessions, bringing AI-generated insights, interpretations, and recommendations into treatment without always mentioning it. At the same time, therapists are increasingly encountering AI-generated notes, assessments, treatment ideas, and educational content in their professional environments, whether they actively seek them out or not.
This course is not about convincing you to adopt AI in your practice. It is about helping you understand a technology that is already influencing your clients, your profession, and the broader mental health landscape.
Through hands-on stress testing of chatbots, participants will learn how these systems think, where they fail, what they do surprisingly well, and how they can shape human beliefs, emotions, and decisions. By learning how to “break” a chatbot, therapists will develop a practical understanding of its strengths, limitations, biases, and risks.
Whether you ultimately embrace AI, avoid it, or remain undecided, understanding chatbots is rapidly becoming an essential clinical competency. You cannot effectively evaluate their impact on your clients without first understanding how they work.
Course Objectives:
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Current AI applications in psychotherapy and clinical practice
Ethical considerations: confidentiality, bias, informed consent, and professional responsibility
Evaluating AI tools through an ethical decision-making framework
Emerging trends and future implications for the field
About The Presenter:
Eric Groh LPC is one of the premier ethics trainers of Georgia mental health professionals. He has presented through the Emory University School of Medicine, Licensed Professional Counselors Association, the South Division of the National Council on Problem Gambling and many other mental health and addiction organizations. Eric was a three-time governor appointee and president of the Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists. Eric served as adjunct at Georgia State University, Chattahoochee Technical College and Bauder College. He was a consultant to the U.S. Department of Public Health, Bethesda MD, to expand capacity for MH/SA services to emergency response professionals in large scale disasters. He is founder and president of the Georgia Council on Problem Gambling. For 20 years he has been a solo practitioner combining cutting edge approaches and strategic practice development. His primary focus is mental healthcare professional ethics consulting.
"Excellent presentation...allowed me to understand how to practice mental health in other states" --Sylvia Torres LPC
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Eric Groh LPC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, AceP No. 6921. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Eric Groh LPC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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Eric Groh LPC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6921. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Eric Groh LPC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.