117. Your Therapist Can't Be Subpoenaed, But ChatGPT Can

A headline stopped me mid-coffee this week: your therapist can't be subpoenaed, but ChatGPT can. Of course, therapists can be subpoenaed too, so it's really just a catchy headline. But it got me thinking, because I know how many of you are still dictating notes into ChatGPT between clients, venting about a tough case, or asking it for a new intervention idea. You tell me about it constantly, in coaching calls and emails.

In this episode of Run Your Private Practice with AI, I get into why that headline is pointing at something real, the other AI privacy stories that landed in my inbox this same week, and the specific settings and tools I actually use to keep client information off anything that could ever be subpoenaed.

AI Tips You Don’t Want to Miss:

• Why what you type into a regular consumer AI doesn't get the same protection your own head or your locked EHR does.
• What it actually takes to verify and turn on the free HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT built for clinicians.
• How to block specific websites from an AI agent like Claude Cowork so it can never reach your EHR.
• The hidden risk of ambient AI notetakers like Granola sitting in on a session without the other person even knowing.
• A five-minute gut check to run on your own AI chat history before you assume none of this applies to you.

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