Your Clients Are Already Using AI. Let's Get the Profession Ready.
A one day CPD summit for psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors. Eight expert speakers on daily clinical practice, ethics, UK law, cultural bias, neurodivergence and reflective practice.
Illuminated Thinking
Lifespan PsychologyReclaim Hours of Clinical Time
Identify the AI tools you can use today to reduce time spent on letters, notes, formulations and routine admin, with worked examples from clinicians in private practice and the NHS.
Know Where the Ethical Lines Sit
A clear, current framework for working within HCPC, BPS and BACP guidance, covering UK GDPR, confidentiality, and what to do when a client tells you they have been using ChatGPT.
Meet Clients Where They Already Are
Clients are turning to ChatGPT, Woebot and dedicated mental health apps, often without telling you. Understand the landscape, the evidence base, and how to bring AI into the therapeutic conversation.
Who Should Attend
Built for everyone working in UK mental health care
Why This Summit Exists
How it came to be
It began with a Facebook post. Co-founder Dr Esther Cole asked a private practice group whether therapists would forever have to work alongside AI chatbots. Within days, more than 50 clinicians had replied. The pattern was clear: this is already happening in our consulting rooms, most of us are working it out alone, and most of us feel underprepared.
Clients are using ChatGPT to make sense of what happens between sessions. Co-founder Dr Aisha Tariq has used AI to take roughly 20 hours a week of admin off her own caseload. The ethical questions about data, bias, consent and what gets lost when a machine stands in for a person are not going away. They are getting more pressing.
We built this summit because the profession needs a space to think about all of this carefully, together, before the decisions get made for us.
Our Speakers
Eight clinicians, researchers and legal specialists, covering daily practice, ethics, UK law, cultural bias, neurodivergence and reflective practice
Programme
Monday, 5 October 2026 · all times UK
Introduction
Dr Aisha Tariq, Illuminated Thinking & Dr Esther Cole, Lifespan Psychology
Ethics: 10 Key Risks and a Solutions Framework for AI in Clinical Settings
Winnie Akadjo, Aeli Health
Ethics: 10 key risks and solutions framework.
AI Tools for Neurodivergent People: Friends or Foes?
Jo Desborough, Unblocked Thinking Ltd
AI tools for neurodivergent people: friends or foes?
AI in Psychology: The UK Legal and Regulatory Landscape
Clare Veal, Aubergine Legal
UK legal and regulatory landscape.
Lunch
AI in Daily Clinical Practice: Beyond Note-Taking
Dr Natalie Stott, Mastering Therapy
AI in daily clinical practice, beyond note-taking.
AI, Cultural Bias and Health Inequalities
Dr Rima Lamba, Blue River Psychology
AI, cultural bias and health inequalities.
Can AI Help Us Be Better Therapists? A Reflective Close
Dr Naomi Murphy, Octopus Psychology
Can AI help us be better therapists? (reflective close)
Panel Discussion
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