AI in Psychology

Dr Aisha Tariq

Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Director

Illuminated Thinking

Dr Aisha Tariq is a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Director of Illuminated Thinking, a private practice in Glasgow. Her clinical work focuses on complex trauma, emotional regulation, and integrative approaches including EMDR, Internal Family Systems and schema therapy. Aisha has spent the last few years building and implementing AI systems within her practice, not as an experiment, but as working infrastructure that handles clinical documentation, referrals, bookings and the operational load that sits behind good clinical care. What continues to surprise her is how many clinicians still feel hesitant about AI, often held back by myths about risk or complexity, when in practice the barriers are far lower than assumed. Most people she speaks to are using it as little more than a chat function, and she thinks that is a significant missed opportunity. Her interest is less in AI as a concept and idea-generating tool and more in what it actually makes possible: reducing the administrative burden on clinicians, improving consistency across a service, and making good care more sustainable and accessible, without displacing the clinical judgement and human relationships that make therapy work.