Joel Bild

A therapist's honest take on AI and therapy — what AI chatbots genuinely help with, where they reach their limits, and why the human relationship is still the thing that heals.

A new client once arrived for their first session and, half-joking but half-serious, said: “So, you’ll fix me in six weeks, right?” We both smiled. But behind the humour was something real: the hope and maybe even the longing, that therapy could be clean, quick, and painless. It’s understandable. The internet is full of approaches promising rapid cures, “brain hacks,” or the chance to undo years of trauma in just a handful of sessions. The problem is, these quick fixes rarely lead to true...