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AI Tools for Therapy
🕑 Added 2025-10-27 11:00:07 +0000 UTCDr Kirk Honda interviews Gregg Spiridellis (founder of JibJab, etc.) about his AI tools for therapists and clients.
00:00 Introducing Gregg Spiridellis
04:19 What inspired Moments?
14:33 How private is my data?
25:40 What feedback have they received?
26:33 What is Moments for Therapists?
43:47 Could this app be useful?
52:25 Why are prompts so important?
58:28 What do you lose with AI?
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October 27, 2025
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Comments
Rachel Wright
During my internship at a CMH site they heavily pushed this device called Elios which was a device that listens to the session, summarizes what was said, and actually had therapeutic insight. It caught on to interventions like “therapist used existential therapy to highlight etc etc” It was pretty impressive on how much it caught on to the accuracy of interventions. To me, it seemed like the incentive to implement this tool was to increase insurance-compliant documentation. Lots more to say! But yes, AI is being implemented in the clinical settings.
Rachael Rutkowski
Thanks for this podcast and asking challenging questions! Even though your guest seems to have integrity is probably genuine, what happens later - when the company is sold down the line - he won't always be there to hold the line. So that would personally give me pause. I do respect and believe him but like you said we all have been burned so much and the future seems uncertain with our country's administration.
Tonja
I am once again baffled at how simple and uningenuous most of the AI wrapper apps are. As in the discussed client app: user writes/dictates notes, ChatGPT summarizes them. This doesn't seem to be specifically designed for enhancing therapy. Odd, but such apps obviously sell (even though people could just use ChatGPT or a different model directly). Thanks, though, Kirk, for diving into these topics.
