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Care in the Machine

A weekly note on counseling, ethics, and the technology showing up in our work. Teaching ideas for therapists, supervisors, and counselor educators, a few things worth knowing, and an idea I am still working out. Subscribe below, and the next issue lands Monday.

Inside every issue

Short, useful, and never hollow

A few teaching ideas you can use Monday, the developments worth knowing, and a thought I am still working out.

1

Teaching ideas for every chair

One concrete, usable move for wherever you sit that week.

The therapist · the supervisor · the counselor educator · the counselor in training
2

This week in the field

The developments actually worth knowing, each with a plain read on what it means for how we practice, teach, and supervise.

3

An idea I'm floating

A thought in progress, handed to you for your read before it ever becomes a paper or a talk.

What we dig into

The questions already in your caseload

Grounded in relational care ethics, aimed at the calls you are making between sessions.

AI in the counseling room. The note it drafts, the risk score it suggests, and where your judgment has to stay.
Kids, teens, and AI. What young people are actually doing with it, and how to talk to them about it.
Supervision at a distance. Alliance, ethics, and gatekeeping when you have never shared a room.
The Counseling Compact. Practicing across state lines, and doing it well.
AI and student writing. Teaching verification instead of springing the trap.
Culturally responsive care. Presence and trust across the screen and across difference.
Telemental health and BC-TMH. The law, ethics, and safety of care through a screen.
The ethics underneath it all. Attentiveness, responsibility, competence, responsiveness, trust.
Dr. Michael Jones

Who's writing to you

Dr. Michael Jones · PhD, LPC-S, NCC, BC-TMH

Twenty years in the work, a decade in the professoriate, and still seeking supervision because the work is never finished. I have held the BC-TMH since 2014 and helped prepare more than ten thousand clinicians for care through a screen. Now I am figuring out the new parts, the machine in the room, alongside you. Subscribe above and come think it through with me.