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Welcome to Ask Abundance. Y' all ask the questions about having a fun and thriving practice. We answer them. We have a worksheet for you today so you can bring this answer into your life. If you want support in your practice, we have you covered with on demand or one on one support. Links for the worksheet and support are in the Show Notes. Can't get enough Ask Abundance. Check out our YouTube channel for the entire library. Welcome back to Ask Allison. Today I'm joined by Kim Wheeler and Kim's been doing one on ones with us for years. If you want to hop into a one on one with her, then hit the link in the Show Notes if you're listening on the pod. Or you can get in touch with me on social and I will send you a link. Here is today's question. I'm trying to be more efficient in my practice, but I keep hearing mixed messages about using AI for things like notes, summaries or admin tasks. Part of me sees how much time it could save and another part of me worries I'm crossing an ethical line or risking client trust without realizing it. I don't want to cut corners or do anything that could jeopardize confidentiality or my license. Is it ethical to use AI for notes or admin? And how do I think about this responsibly? I love that they're asking instead of just going for it or not going for it. Like let's explore y' all before we answer. Then I'd love to thank our sponsor, TherapyNotes. I've talked about them for years, know their features by heart, but what truly sets them apart is that they genuinely care about your experience. It's not just about troubleshooting. They actively implement user suggested features like Therapy Search, secure messaging, and their AI Notes feature Therapy Fuel, which will not impact our discussion of this either way. Everybody at TherapyNotes believes in the product and they want you to love it too. Believe. Plus they're independently owned, which means no venture capital and no pressure to prioritize investors over customers. And this independence allows them to keep their prices fair, to focus on innovation, and to prioritize customer experience. With over 100,000 therapists already on board, they've proven that you don't have to compromise success for quality. If you're ready to see for yourself, try TherapyNotes free for two months with the code abundantherapynotes.com all right, what are your thoughts? Kim?
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Oh my goodness, I'm kind of 5050 on it. I have to do full disclosure that I do use AI to draft up my canned responses to stuff, so I definitely use that for admin tasks here and there. But I'm also really, I feel really guilty about the water usage, so I kind of think about that, but I look at that. But I also have researched a lot of the AI note takers or the ones that you can use in session and I look at like a lot of, in, you know, a couple of Facebook groups and you know, with therapists and everyone has like their discussions about them and how comfortable they feel. I think that it's one of those where I'm not really sure about where it's going to go. I know that, you know, for some therapists, especially when you get behind, it can be extremely helpful because it's like helping you to kind of get through and to get all your notes done. The other thing would be that the concern for actually the note taking and actually listening during the session, for me, I don't necessarily feel comfortable with that, so I don't do that particular thing, but I definitely see the benefit. And if you are writing a particular note that doesn't have a lot of identifying information and you're writing a kind of basic note that you can, you know, kind of write that out. And I think that it's really helpful for neurodivergent therapists who really kind of need that template each time and it really helps you to keep you on task and to keep you from kind of getting backed up. So it definitely has been helpful. You can kind of see that it's like, wow, this is life changing. But on the other hand, I do kind of have that thing of like how much information is kind of being heard when you're in a session and at some times will a client actually understand if they're being recorded, that this isn't just your personal reporting, this is that it's the AI and that where is that actually going to and do you actually own that and where is that going? Think that's a, a little bit difference between you actually recording the session yourself and then playing it back so that you can write it. So that would be my only hesitation about the actual systems that you use. Like that you're actually listening to, they're listening in on the session and then they're dictating and creating the know after. That's probably where I kind of get a little dicey with it, but those are my thoughts.