Category: Technology

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Are Our Devices Spying on Our Therapy Sessions With Clients?

Whether you’re in an in-person therapy clinic where you see clients one on one or in your own office at home providing virtual therapy, there may be a breach of confidentiality hiding in your midst. As a web-developer turned virtual therapist, I’m always considering the ethics of cybersecurity (check out the video below on a…
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AI Is Not a Replacement for Therapy

There is a growing conversation over whether AI chat bots can replace therapy… and I must say that this is something that terrifies me. Human practitioners may not be perfect, but there are rigorous trainings, degrees, and ethical considerations that go into being a therapist. For many, there is a minimum of 6 years of…
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OCD and ChatGPT are Not a Great Combination

I’ll confess, I personally have OCD and have used ChatGPT while in the middle of my feedback loops. Any question I have the answer is at the tip of my fingertips- whatever compulsion I can dream up there’s an answer before I am even done forming an opinion on why I’m panicking. For persons with…
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Women in Video Games and Virtual Spaces

Gaming has for most of its shelf-life been considered a male-dominated arena. In the past few decades women have begun to challenge this idea. While “many women use the net to engage in activism and feminist network” (Van Doorn 273) there are areas of the internet that have been widely interpreted as male space. The…
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