FOR FREELANCE THERAPISTS

AI and digital skills
for independent therapists

Clinical work, teaching, publishing, research, practice.
A place to build up, little by little, what generative AI and digital tools can do to make a therapist's work lighter — and carry it further.

ABOUT

About this site

Generative AI has spread through society at remarkable speed over the last few years. In the world of therapists — physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists and others — the same questions keep coming up: can this be used in the clinic? How will the work change? Where do I even start?

Yet there are still very few places where a therapist working independently can learn about AI and digital practice systematically and realistically. This site exists to fill that gap. Not deep technical explanation, but practice organised around one idea: tomorrow can be a little lighter than today.

AI is not a replacement for a therapist. It is an intellectual pair of training wheels. Where to go is always decided by a person. Let us grow the habit of using it as a tool that makes that walk a little easier.

  • Clinic & teaching Patient explanations, handouts and study groups, made faster with AI
  • Publishing & presence Build your own site and content, and put it in front of the world
  • Research & practice Move data through question, collection, analysis and communication

CONTENTS

The learning material

Built around the "Generative AI for Therapists" series, with new material added and updated as things move.

Foundations Published · 15 chapters

Generative AI: Foundations

From your first encounter with generative AI to the differences between the major tools, what they are good and bad at, role prompting, prompt technique, file uploads, and building your own GPTs and Gems. The first map.

  • AI as training wheels, not a replacement
  • A realistic distance to keep on privacy and security
  • Prompt patterns you can use tomorrow

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Part One Published · 16 chapters

Working with Your Own Files

From chat window to workspace. Hand Word files, PDFs and data to AI, and grow a knowledge base that stays on your own machine with Gemini Notebook and Obsidian — safety and usefulness together.

  • Three rules for protecting personal information
  • A research assistant that is only yours
  • A loop that compounds what you know

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Part Two Published · 13 chapters

Coding and Building Systems

From user to maker. Build a profile page and then a real website with AI without writing a line of code yourself, and publish it to the world with GitHub and Vercel.

  • How to instruct AI, and how to get past errors
  • Deploying, and what it feels like to go public
  • Front end and back end: the dining room and the kitchen

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Part Three Published · 15 chapters

Working with Data

Speed up question → collection → analysis → communication with AI at your side. Bring in epidemiology and causal inference as footing, so that fast and correct hold together.

  • Clinical reasoning is already data thinking
  • Never mistake correlation for causation
  • Designing measures that actually mean something

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All four series are published. New material and updates land here as they are written.