A GREAT CONVERSATION: A ChatGPT Expert on Whether We Should Be Using AI for Therapy
We're pouring our hearts out to robots. What could go wrong?
In April Harvard Business Review published a study showing the number one way people are using ChatGPT in 2025 is for therapy, which feels right. Who hasn’t had a fight with someone or had a big decision to make and asked the bot what to do?
I wanted to know if this was a good idea, so I reached out to Catherine Goetze, CEO of CatGPT, who does, as she calls it on Instagram, “non-pretentious, non-patronizing AI education.”
She talked me through the following:
How GPT acts as a therapist (where does it get all that good advice?)
Why do people love talking to ChatGPT?
Who should and should not be using ChatGPT for therapy
From a privacy perspective, should you be telling this bot your deepest darkest secrets?
And should therapists be looking for new jobs?
Read an edited version of the conversation below or scroll down for the entire video.