Introduction of AI in relationship dynamics
- A clinical overview of what AI intimacy is and why it matters in modern couple therapy
- Understanding chatbots and its clinical impact on human relationships
- Exploring the emotional appeal of the use of AI in relational dynamics
- AI as a growing relational force clinicians must assess and address
Chatbots and the individual client
- AI companions and their impact on emotional attunement, and relational gratification
- Clinical tools to assess when AI can help or hurt your individual clients
- Identifying patterns of over-reliance, avoidance, or emotional displacement
- Clinical skills to recognize client characteristics that increase risk for problematic AI use
AI inside the couple system
- Common points of tension that arise when AI enters the couple dynamic
- How partners most often use AI within emotional, relational, and sexual contexts
- Assessing whether AI use strengthens or undermines trust, intimacy, and communication
- Clinical interventions that help couples evaluate AI’s impact on their connection and repair ruptures
Assessment and intervention in AI-related couple conflict
- Key clinical questions to guide assessment when couples are using AI in relationships
- Evaluating the impact of AI use on trust, intimacy, consent, and couple treatment needs
- Developing a therapist stance that is balanced, non moralistic, and grounded in curiosity
- Clinical interventions for re-centering human relational attunement in couples work
- Supporting couples in negotiating boundaries around AI use
Therapeutic challenges and vulnerable populations
- Clinical interventions for addressing betrayal in artificial intimacy in couple’s therapy
- Spotting and addressing clinical red flags when AI escalates conflict or distress
- Most common client characteristics and attachment styles related with maladaptive AI use
- Spotting and addressing clinical signs of AI-related psychosis
- Risk and limitations on research
Case integration and clinical framework
- Case-based integration on spotting and addressing maladaptive use of AI in avoidant attachment
- Clinical discernment skills for AI use in couples
- Understand the future of embodied AI, its ethical implications and potential impact on relationships
- Closing clinical reflections


