I don't know much about therapy, but this article appears to be a good analysis of what current therapy is about, why it works, and why AI might not be able to

I don't know much about therapy, but this article appears to be a good analysis of what current therapy is about, why it works, and why AI might not be able to replace it. But some of the things mentioned, such as: your therapist gets moved by your story themselves, they are themselves imperfect, and in general you're talking to a human being you have to respect etc - these things, while they definitely do support current therapy in important ways, they are not a deliberate design choice of how therapy works. They are rather constraints that come about when you are using a human being as a therapist, made out of flesh. So, the last point the article makes - that therapy itself might mean something else in the future - is the real question, in my mind. The current form of therapy has incredible strengths in part because it works with these human constraints. But AI based therapy might be able to fill a different gap, one that regular therapists cannot fill - on account of, for example, not being available 24/7, not having the capacity to read entire diaries or chat histories, or taking on different personas. Or, simply, being cheaper than a real therapist, which can benefit many even if the ultimate quality is worse.