Free AI in Mental Health Course

Over the past year, our team at the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy program in California has been researching how people actually use AI for mental health support, and the numbers are staggering. This is not a future scenario. It is happening now, at massive scale, and yet most clinicians have never been trained to work with it safely, ethically, and effectively.

Our Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Alexandre Vaz, created this 4-part training course to help therapists, students, supervisors, and educators respond to this moment. It includes four full recorded workshops, presentation slides, clinical handouts, and prompt templates. The materials are based on the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy program in California, and draw from books we are publishing with the American Psychological Association that offer structured, practical frameworks for integrating AI into clinical training and client care safely and ethically.

We were going to sell this as a $200 course package. But honestly, we believe every therapist and every training program should have access to this right now. So we're releasing it all for free.

Please take it. Use it. Share it with your colleagues, your students, your supervisees, your department. The more programs and clinicians who have access to these frameworks, the safer this transition will be for everyone.

This on-demand product gives you full access to Sentio’s “AI in Mental Health: Introductory Certification” course materials (from our 4-week live training), designed to help you safely use AI tools like ChatGPT as a clinical thinking and supervision support.

Access the course here

Included

• 4 full video recordings (Week 1–4)

• 4 slide decks (PDFs) (Week 1–4)

• All course handouts + exclusive Sentio materials, including:

  • AI safety & ethics guidelines

  • Clinical brainstorming prompts + structure

  • Case de-identification templates

  • Sentio AI competency/checklist-style tools

Topics Covered (Week-by-Week Curriculum)"

• Week 1: How LLMs actually work + what’s changing in mental health

• Week 2: Risks, ethics, safety guardrails, and hallucination-spotting

• Week 3: AI for safe clinical brainstorming and between-session integration with clients

• Week 4: AI for deliberate practice skill-building and building a practice routine

About the Trainer

Alexandre Vaz, Ph.D. is cofounder and Chief Academic Officer of the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy program in California. He provides DP workshops and advanced clinical training and supervision to clinicians around the world. Dr. Vaz is the author/co-editor of over 20 books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and a series of clinical training books: “The Essentials of Deliberate Practice” (APA Press), and an upcoming APA book on safe integration in psychotherapy. He has held multiple committee roles for the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Dr. Vaz is also founder and host of “Psychotherapy Expert Talks,” an acclaimed interview series with distinguished psychotherapists and therapy researchers.

Note: no CEUs are offered for this free course.