About
Dr Esther Cole is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Founder of a multi-award winning company Lifespan Psychology — The Diverse Practice®. The team offer psychological therapy, psychotherapy and counselling for adults, children and families, with a particular focus on mental health, trauma and neurological conditions.
Drawing on her clinical, research and lived experiences, Dr Esther Cole explores how rapid technological growth is reshaping human experiences, relationships, well-being and therapy.
Within the AI Summit, Dr Esther Cole will be a Co-Host, bringing a psychologist's perspective to the conversation of AI. She advocates for AI innovation that is green and climate-friendly, remains centred on the efficiency of running a services, and safeguards the public and their psychological well-being.
Sessions
Introduction
Aisha Tariq and Esther Cole open the summit. Why a day on AI in psychology, why now, and what they hope the profession does with it. More than one in three UK adults say they have used an AI chatbot to support their mental health or wellbeing. Our clients are already having those conversations between sessions, often without telling us, and the questions that raises about safeguarding, ethics, bias and therapeutic work itself will not wait. A short orientation to the day follows: how the programme runs, and where the threads picked up during the morning come back together in the closing panel.