TIL 532: Biblical Counseling and AI Therapy (feat. Greg Gifford)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
1. What are we talking about with AI and counseling?
2. How are these chat bots being used in therapy?
3. How should we think about AI therapy or counseling?
4. How is the church a better place to seek help?
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| 0:00.0 | Biblical counseling and AI therapy on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:21.1 | This week on the podcast I have with me, Dr. Greg Gifford. He's an assistant professor of biblical |
| 0:25.8 | counseling at the Masters University. He earned a PhD in biblical counseling from Southwestern |
| 0:30.3 | Baptist Deological Seminary, and he holds a Master of Arts in biblical counseling from the |
| 0:34.5 | Masters University, as well as a BA and pastoral ministry from |
| 0:37.8 | Baptist Bible College. He's a certified counselor with the Association of Certified Biblical |
| 0:42.5 | Counselors. He's an ordained pastor, and he's a member of the Evangelical Theological |
| 0:46.7 | Society. When not teaching, Greg enjoys counseling for Lowcountry Biblical Counseling Center, |
| 0:51.6 | serving as an associate pastor in his local church, |
| 0:57.7 | wrestling with his two boys and eating good food with his wife. |
| 0:59.6 | Dr. Gickford, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:03.3 | Looking forward to this very new, innovative topic today. |
| 1:04.5 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 1:09.2 | Now, first, for our listeners, just describe this concept of AI therapy. |
| 1:25.2 | I mean, people are hearing all over the place about the use of AI everywhere in social media, on the internet, how useful something like this can be. And now we're talking about AI in the therapeutic offering counseling. Just describe a little bit about what we're describing today. |
| 1:32.4 | It's interesting because AI is everywhere, and it's also entering into this therapeutic realm where you're having chat bots as therapists. |
| 1:38.3 | So there are now platforms, some are free, free ai therapy.com, for instance, would be an example |
| 1:43.2 | where you can go on, insert your problem and the chatbot starts to prompt you with thoughts, things to consider. |
| 1:52.2 | Character.a.I also has a decision helper where you go on and you start to say, hey, I'm thinking about a new job or I'm thinking about changing my relationship up. |
| 2:01.5 | And now chatbots are really guiding you through that process. |
| 2:05.1 | So these chatbots are generative. |
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