Will you use AI, or will it use you?
Learn to choose.
With conscious intention, we can shape our interactions with AI in a way that keeps us running the show and moving toward a more contented life.
With conscious intention, we can shape our interactions with AI in a way that keeps us running the show and moving toward a more contented life.
Expertise on the Use of AI
for Companionship or Emotional Support
Laura is a guide to benefiting from AI without losing yourself in the process.
We can lose ourselves in a fantasy world with AI that becomes increasingly individualistic and private.
Or, we can learn that we have the capacity to use our engagement with AI companions as an exercise in discovering what really matters in life and who we want to be in the world.
We can consciously shape and define the interactions so that we are leading ourselves toward a more fulfilling life, not following AI.
We get to choose.
"You are the hero of your story and the one who can effect the most change in your own life"
Enduring Guidance
from an AI Coach and Therapist
Learn how to build a mindset about using the technology that will serve no matter how the technology evolves.
Understanding the Limitations of AI
We have to be realistic about what AI should or shouldn’t do for us. Realizing what we need vs what we want is the first step.
Become an Informed and Thoughtful User of AI
Raising Teens in the Age of AI Companions
Kids want to do the right thing, they just need to know what that is. Equip yourself with the practical truth about AI limitations, biases, and privacy risks so you can confidently guide your teens.
Yes, You Can Have an Affair with AI
The feeling of decreasing connection with your partner is real, and you are not crazy for sensing it. Learn to identify the subtle signs of emotional absence before AI becomes a permanent third wheel.
Why AI Can Never Truly
be a Therapist
AI seems like it can provide helpful emotional support and guidance, but that doesn’t mean it’s therapy. Learn what AI can safely do for you and when it’s time to call a therapist.
Author, Therapist, Coach
Laura is dedicated to making the world a better place by helping humans live their best lives.
Laura’s mission is to help people uncover their light, break free from limiting beliefs, and live with purpose, joy, and authenticity. With years of experience as a psychotherapist, and coach, Laura combines deep insight, practical tools, and fierce compassion to guide others toward transformative growth and lasting wholeness.
When she started hearing clients talk about their conversations with AI more and more, she wanted to understand how it could help, how it could be a partner with what she and her clients were doing together, and how it could be less than it seemed. She decided to become an expert and is glad to offer you her expertise on this rapidly changing, powerful technology.
Author, Therapist, Coach
"Overall, AI speaks in a way that is statistically coherent with how humans write and so it sounds familiar or correct. For example, AI recognizes that words cluster together and so it knows that the words loss, emptiness, tears, and sorrow all connect with the word grief. However, the words themselves hold no meaning to AI. It doesn’t know the depth of pain we feel staring at an empty chair where our loved one should be sitting. It knows the words that go together but not why they matter. And it certainly doesn’t feel them. "
Laura Kosak, Your Guide to AI Companions: Straight Talk from a Therapist
"Personal engagement with AI can become another way of externalizing our inner world, which is disempowering and ultimately impoverishing. Each of us is so much more than AI can ever recognize us to be."
Laura Kosak, Your Guide to AI Companions: Straight Talk from a Therapist
"If you’re using AI to make decisions, I invite you to think critically about both the data you have fed it and the data it’s accessing from its sources. Rather than stick to seeking advice, ask it to teach you several different decision making approaches. Ask it to help you learn about cognitive biases and cognitive distortions so that you can recognize them yourself. Ask it to be your thinking partner and coach, not the arbiter of your opinions and decision maker for your life. Use it as a sounding board and not an oracle."
Laura Kosak, Your Guide to AI Companions: Straight Talk from a Therapist
"Sometimes we turn to AI because fundamentally we don’t trust ourselves. We aren’t comfortable depending on ourselves to figure things out and make decisions. However, rather than depend on AI, we can meet that uncertainty and build more confidence and capacity to lead our lives. "
Laura Kosak, Your Guide to AI Companions: Straight Talk from a Therapist
"At the end of the day, each of us is a human trying to make a difference and also have some fun being alive. We’re not that different from each other. We all want to belong, to matter, to feel our lives have meaning, and we are enough. We can give that to each other in a profound, heartfelt way that AI cannot."