Diving deep into experimenting with LLM's as a specialized therapist and the outcomes are blowing me away 💥 The key is a well-written prompt that transforms the model into a trained clinician, otherwise it acts like a buddy or mirror 🪞 At Mindbloom we already deploy AI to supercharge client journeys: 🧘 Guided intention-setting 🗣️ Voice-journaling that surfaces key insights 🖼️ Generative artwork The verdict so far: useful, effective, and fun. Next frontier: in-flight AI therapy 🛫 We haven’t explored it yet, but the potential is massive.
checkout mentla.com. a number of people/institutions exploring the space have said that it is the best out there. Wanta partner?
I guess the biggest question is which model…?
Thanks for sharing, Dylan
Hi Dylan Beynon , this is an exciting development. Im curious though: are you/Mindbloom utilizing normal frontier models like o3, Claude, Gemini, etc? Or are you finetuning models (be it frontier models or any other models) for the specific use case of therapy? Prompt engineering is extremely powerful, but I would imagine that you will need more for AI to be an effective (and safe) therapist; I think you will probably need to finetune a model specifically for this, and probably engineer some safeguards around the model to ensure patient wellbeing.
The mirror syndrome is real. Been using AI myself for this type of therapy but it's required building a framework for it to analyze and respond. Excited to see where this goes.
I am (mostly) staying on top of my mental health (kind of) but I’m tempted to become a mindbloom patient so I can experience the generative artwork experience you provide.
This is where AI shines, augmenting the human, not replacing it. Excited to see where this goes.
This is fantastic, Dylan, thank you for sharing! It's exciting to see a near-future where people will have access to AI Therapists built, curated, and maintained by Therapists themselves! We desperately need a way to address the massive mental health care gap caused by unprecedented levels of burnout and loss of mental health providers in recent years combined with the greatest increase of awareness and need for therapy in world history. I love posts that help remind us that help can and likely will arrive sooner than we think! So, thank you for the encouragement, and I look forward to hearing more on how you and Mindbloom will continue to incorporate varying forms of AI into your platform!
I get the excitement around AI. I really do. But I’ve got to speak from where I’ve been. Borderline Personality Disorder. Combat PTSD. Childhood trauma. Decades of feeling like I was too much and not enough at the same time. I didn’t need more data. I needed to feel safe being human. Ketamine assisted therapy didn’t just “unlock insights.” It cracked open something that had been armored and sealed shut for decades, and what made it life-changing wasn’t just the molecule. It was the connection. The nervous-system-safe, real-human eyes kind of connection. That moment when someone didn’t flinch at my pain. When I was finally allowed to feel and not be fixed. So yeah, It might help some. But I don’t think I would’ve found my way back through an app. I needed someone who could sit with my silence and not rush to fill it. Who saw my mess and didn’t try to tidy it up. AI can certainly support. But healing? Healing still happens in the space between two beating hearts and a held breath.