Sam Altman says 2025 is the year people start using ChatGPT for their emotional lives — to process relationships, rehearse hard conversations, and even find comfort. 
So what happens when your clients start doing therapy with an algorithm?
In this crossover episode of TwoX Labs x The Soft Science, Dr. Erika Miley breaks down: 
🧠 What AI actually is (and isn’t) — and why it can sound empathetic without ever understanding you. 
💬 How clients are turning to AI for emotional support — and what needs that really meets. 
⚠️ Why therapists must start asking about AI use the same way we ask about coping skills. 
🛑 What harm reduction looks like when AI becomes part of the therapy process. 
🧩 How professional associations need to protect the field — before insurance companies decide AI can replace human care.
 
This episode is for therapists, clients, and anyone trying to navigate the messy new frontier where care meets code.

Sam Altman says 2025 is the year people start using ChatGPT for their emotional lives — to process relationships, rehearse hard conversations, and even find comfort. So what happens when your clients start doing therapy with an algorithm? In this crossover episode of TwoX Labs x The Soft Science, Dr. Erika Miley breaks down: 🧠 What AI actually is (and isn’t) — and why it can sound empathetic without ever understanding you. 💬 How clients are turning to AI for emotional support — and what needs that really meets. ⚠️ Why therapists must start asking about AI use the same way we ask about coping skills. 🛑 What harm reduction looks like when AI becomes part of the therapy process. 🧩 How professional associations need to protect the field — before insurance companies decide AI can replace human care. This episode is for therapists, clients, and anyone trying to navigate the messy new frontier where care meets code.

Sam Altman says 2025 is the year people start using ChatGPT for their emotional lives — to process relationships, rehearse hard conversations, and even find comfort. 
So what happens when your clients start doing therapy with an algorithm?
In this crossover episode of TwoX Labs x The Soft Science, Dr. Erika Miley breaks down: 
🧠 What AI actually is (and isn’t) — and why it can sound empathetic without ever understanding you. 
💬 How clients are turning to AI for emotional support — and what needs that really meets. 
⚠️ Why therapists must start asking about AI use the same way we ask about coping skills. 
🛑 What harm reduction looks like when AI becomes part of the therapy process. 
🧩 How professional associations need to protect the field — before insurance companies decide AI can replace human care.
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This episode is for therapists, clients, and anyone trying to navigate the messy new frontier where care meets code.

AI Relationships: When Therapy Meets the Algorithm

I’m Dr. Erika Miley (Dr. E) — licensed therapist, clinical sexologist, professor, and your favorite neurodivergent bisexual MILF with a brain full of research and a mouth that doesn’t know when to stop.
This show is for the curious, the kinky, the overstimulated, and the over-it. We’ll talk about sex without purity politics, trauma without turning it into your whole personality, and desire without apology.
Because here’s the thing: so many of us — especially women — are living in bodies that were never taught to rest, feel, or want. We’re raising kids, running businesses, surviving late-stage capitalism, and trying to remember what turns us on besides iced coffee and fictional fae warriors.
So we’re going to talk about it all — Why Romantasy is the cultural Prozac we didn’t know we needed. Why erotica can feel like therapy when porn just… doesn’t. What porn women actually watch. And what we know now about perimenopause, hormones, and pleasure that our mothers were never told.
This isn’t therapy. This isn’t porn. This is The Soft Science Show.
And yes — you can stim while you listen. I do.

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I’m Dr. Erika Miley (Dr. E) — licensed therapist, clinical sexologist, professor, and your favorite neurodivergent bisexual MILF with a brain full of research and a mouth that doesn’t know when to stop. This show is for the curious, the kinky, the overstimulated, and the over-it.We’ll talk about sex without purity politics, trauma without turning it into your whole personality, and desire without apology. Because here’s the thing: so many of us — especially women — are living in bodies that were never taught to rest, feel, or want.We’re raising kids, running businesses, surviving late-stage capitalism, and trying to remember what turns us on besides iced coffee and fictional fae warriors. So we’re going to talk about it all —Why Romantasy is the cultural Prozac we didn’t know we needed.Why erotica can feel like therapy when porn just… doesn’t.What porn women actually watch.And what we know now about perimenopause, hormones, and pleasure that our mothers were never told. This isn’t therapy.This isn’t porn.This is The Soft Science Show. And yes — you can stim while you listen.I do.

I’m Dr. Erika Miley (Dr. E) — licensed therapist, clinical sexologist, professor, and your favorite neurodivergent bisexual MILF with a brain full of research and a mouth that doesn’t know when to stop.
This show is for the curious, the kinky, the overstimulated, and the over-it. We’ll talk about sex without purity politics, trauma without turning it into your whole personality, and desire without apology.
Because here’s the thing: so many of us — especially women — are living in bodies that were never taught to rest, feel, or want. We’re raising kids, running businesses, surviving late-stage capitalism, and trying to remember what turns us on besides iced coffee and fictional fae warriors.
So we’re going to talk about it all — Why Romantasy is the cultural Prozac we didn’t know we needed. Why erotica can feel like therapy when porn just… doesn’t. What porn women actually watch. And what we know now about perimenopause, hormones, and pleasure that our mothers were never told.
This isn’t therapy. This isn’t porn. This is The Soft Science Show.
And yes — you can stim while you listen. I do.

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