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The conversation around AI tools for therapists has never been more urgent, or more complicated. In the span of just a few years, artificial intelligence has moved from a distant abstraction to a daily presence in clinical practice: drafting notes, generating treatment plan language, powering chatbots that millions of people are already using for emotional support between, and instead of,  therapy sessions. For most clinicians, the questions are coming faster than the answers. Is this HIPAA-compliant? Is it ethical? What do I tell clients? And underneath all of it, the question nobody wants to say out loud: am I going to be replaced? Kym Tolson, LCSW, has been sitting with these questions longer than most, and building answers in real time. A former nomadic therapist who ran a fully location-independent practice from Airbnbs around the world, Kym pivoted to AI education for clinicians when she realized that the bottleneck in her own practice wasn't clients or caseload. It was … [Read More...] about AI Tools for Therapists: 12 Questions with Kym Tolson, LCSW