Lol, "Therapy and coaching". None of you ever had undergone one therapy session. Otherwise you'd know that 90% is the human connection to the therapist, not the talking or the type of therapy.
That’s not true. Correspondence therapy is a thing. Plenty of research exists in the area of delivering therapy and the effectiveness of different kinds.
Going into a discussion with "that's not true" might not be the best opener ;)
It's not only my personal experience but even people like Irvine Yalom (in Becoming Myself) note that the special form of therapy is not as relevant as the personal connection.
From a quick glance, correspondence therapy is also used on top of an existing relationship most of the time. So I don't see any problem with my initial hypothesis.
My experience with therapy, corroborated with that of friends and family, is that most therapists are not very good and many are awful. I can easily imagine an AI therapist soon being more effective on average.
