Comment by spondylosaurus
8 days ago
> it really is only an option for the elite, which is fine if you're counselling people from similar backgrounds, but not when you're dealing with people from lower socioeconomic classes with experiences that weren't even on your radar
A bizarre qualm. Why would a therapist need to be from the same socioeconomic class as their client? They aren't giving clients life advice. They're giving clients specific services that that training prepared them to provide.
they don’t need to be from the same class, but without insurance traditional once a week therapy costs as much as rent, and society wide, insurance can’t actually reduce price
Many LMHCs have moved to cash-only with sliding scale.
> They're giving clients specific services that that training prepared them to provide.
And what would that be?
Cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectic behavioral therapy, EMDR, acceptance and commitment therapy, family systems therapy, biofeedback, exposure and response prevention, couples therapy...?
So they just follow instructions from a book? Why can’t an LLM do that? Advice is so situational that I just don’t really believe a therapist would ever understand most of their clients problems. If you’re having a hard time understanding my perspective, imagine a white American therapist giving an Indian American immigrant advice on how to deal with family issues. They will probably never deeply understand the situation.