Blog
Notes from building a free AI therapist.
What AI therapy gets wrong, what memory changes, and what we are learning as members arrive.
16 September 2026 · 6 min
What an AI Cannot Do For You
An honest list of the limits, from the company building one. Some of these are temporary engineering problems. Most of them are not, and it matters which is which.
16 September 2026 · 7 min
The Question Chatbots Are Worst At
Research shows AI models respond inconsistently to prompts about suicide. That is the most important failure in this category, and the one an AI mental health product has to design around rather than hope past.
16 September 2026 · 8 min
Several US States Restricted AI Therapy. Here Is What Each One Actually Says.
Illinois, Nevada and Utah took three different approaches to regulating AI mental health tools, and California and New York took a fourth. A plain-language guide to what changed and what it means for you.
16 September 2026 · 9 min
77% of Therapists Say Their Patients Are Already Using AI. Here Is What Worries Them.
The APA surveyed psychologists in 2026 about patients bringing AI into therapy. The numbers are striking, the concerns are specific, and most of them are fair. We go through them one at a time.
10 April 2026 · 7 min
Why Every AI Therapy App Forgets You — And What That Actually Costs
Most AI therapy products have no memory. Each session begins from zero. We unpack why that broken architecture exists, the human cost of repeating yourself, and how Calm AI Therapy solves it.
4 April 2026 · 6 min
The Reason Men Don't Go to Therapy — And Why AI Might Change That
Men access mental health support at significantly lower rates than women. The gap isn't apathy — it's interface. We explore why, and how Calm AI Therapy's tone system was built to bridge it.
28 March 2026 · 7 min
Who Owns Your Mental Health Data? What Every AI Therapy App Does With Your Pain
Most AI therapy products treat your conversations as training data. We pull back the curtain on the privacy landscape and explain Calm AI Therapy's commitments — in plain language.