CE Approved · Self-Paced · Professional Development
Humanly Built
A Course for mental health and wellness practitioners already positioned to lead at the frontlines of humanity.
You know things about human beings that cannot be put in a dataset.
You are already doing the most complex relational work on earth.
And AI has been moving through every corner of the world you live and work in - quietly at first, and now with increasing force.
What you do inside a single session is layered and nuanced. You are attuning to another human being, tracking their lived experience, attending to their search for purpose and peace - what systems are causing them harm, and how they might become the change they are reaching toward.
Often, accompanying someone through the most disorienting terrain of their life so they can find their footing and their voice.
Don't wait for the boards to write this framework for you.
The tech industry did not ask for your wisdom before building this.
Human suffering and human thriving is your utmost concern.
The person across from you is trying to make meaning out of what they have survived and what they are still living through. That process is not incidental to the work. It is the work. And the conditions surrounding it matter.
Who holds the power in the room, who designed the tools being used, whose experiences were centered in that design and whose were left out ... these are not abstract concerns.
They shape what healing looks like and who gets access to it.
This is not really a technology question. It is a question about what we owe the people who trust us with their most difficult moments.
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose”
-Victor Frankl
THE CASE FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP
You are the ones
in the arena.
Mental health and wellness practitioners are not peripheral to the conversation about AI and humanity. You are the most qualified people on earth to lead it.
You sit inside human suffering and survival every single day. You understand what breaks people and what restores them. You know attachment, power, trauma, meaning, and the irreducible weight of one human being truly present with another. You have spent years learning to hold what no algorithm can touch.
The AI conversation does not need more technologists. It needs more of you.
But to lead, you need a framework. Not a technical one. An ethical one. One built from an lens that asks not just what AI can do, but who built it, whose values are inside it, who benefits from its adoption, and who gets erased by it.
Also, what is ethics and have you ever heard of the love ethic?
The word ethics comes from the ancient Greek ethos. And before it meant anything about morality or professional codes, it meant something more elemental. It meant character. Habit. The accustomed place. The ground you return to.
In its earliest use it described the habitat of an animal. Where a creature naturally lives. Where it goes when it needs to be itself.
I love that origin. Because what I am asking you to do in this course is not add a new framework on top of everything you already carry. I am asking you to return to your own ethos. Your own accustomed place. The ground of your values, your beliefs, your deepest commitments to the people you serve.
Ethics is not something you apply. It is something you inhabit.
bell hooks writes in All About Love that "embracing a love ethic means that we utilize all the dimensions of love: care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect, and knowledge."
Love Ethic?! How amazing is that?!
Not love as sentiment. Love as accountable practice. Love as something that asks something of us, consistently, even when it is hard. Especially when it is hard.
This framing is precisely the ethical compass from which this course was built. And when you hold those six dimensions alongside the question of AI in clinical practice, something urgent becomes clear.
Care without a body to feel it is simulation. Commitment without the risk of rupture is performance. Trust built with something that cannot be genuinely accountable is not trust at all. Responsibility requires a being who can actually be held responsible. Respect for another person's humanity requires you to have wrestled with your own. And knowledge, in the deepest clinical sense, is not information retrieval. It is understanding built through relationship, through failure, through the particular kind of knowing that only comes from having been changed by another person.
These are not limitations of current technology that a future model will solve. They are the nature of what love, in hooks' sense, actually requires. They require a human being. They require you.
That is what Humanly Built aims to gives you.
THE COURSE’S ARCHITECTURE
Five modules.
Your framework.
A CE-approved professional development course for mental health practitioners at every stage of becoming ... graduate students, associates working toward licensure, and established clinicians with years of practice. It will not teach you to code. It will give you a clear, grounded, critical ethical framework for understanding AI and deciding with full intention how it does and does not enter your work.
01
What Makes Us Human
The existential and historical ground beneath everything
Ethics CE
This module does not begin with AI. It begins with fire. Humans have always been a species that builds tools, and every major tool has reshaped who we are and how we live together. The sewing machine changed women's labor. The railroad changed time itself. Electricity changed what night meant. AI is not unprecedented in kind ... it is unprecedented in scope and speed. Understanding that arc is the first ethical act. Before she can evaluate any tool, she must know what she is protecting and what her field has always been called to hold. This module grounds her in the existential core of clinical work ... presence, meaning, the irreducible weight of being witnessed ... and in the philosophical and historical roots of ethics itself, not as a professional requirement but as a human one.
Lesson arc
The long arc ... how technology has always reshaped humanity (fire, steam, electricity, the railroad, the sewing machine, the internet)
Why this moment is different in scope and speed, and what that asks of us ethically
What ethics actually means (not rules, but a living relational practice rooted in values)
Ethics in mental health and wellness practice ... professional codes and standards as a floor, not a ceiling
What only a human holds ... presence, embodiment, affect, messy relational repair, meaning-making
Mental health as inseparable from physical, spiritual, collective, and societal health
02
Honest AI Literacy
What AI actually is, and is not ...
Ethics CE + General CE
The practitioner cannot make ethical decisions about a tool they don’t understand. This module gives a clear and honest picture of how large language models actually work, what they can simulate, what they cannot access, and why they produce confident wrong answers. Crucially it also asks: who built these systems, whose data trained them, whose languages and realities are invisible to them, and whose values are encoded in their outputs. AI literacy is not neutral. Understanding the technology is inseparable from understanding the power structures that produced it.
Also what about the environmental impact of AI?
Lesson arc
How large language models actually work ... pattern prediction, not understanding or feeling
What AI can simulate and what it cannot access ... affect, embodiment, genuine presence
Why AI produces confident wrong answers and what that means clinically
Who built these systems ... whose data, whose languages, whose realities are present and absent
The ethics of AI literacy itself ... discernment as a professional obligation
Understanding human practitioner as ethically bound to also protect the earth in which humans reside
03
Systems Thinking Meets AI
Patterns, feedback loops, power, and who is made invisible
Ethics CE + General CE
This is where your clinical training becomes explicitly political and your systems lens becomes a tool for analysis rather than just therapy. The same skills you use to map a family system, track a feedback loop, or notice a power dynamic in the room can be applied to AI itself. Who benefits from its adoption in mental health settings. Who is erased by its training data. What feedback loops does algorithmic documentation create in a clinical system. How does institutional pressure to adopt AI interact with the ethical obligation to protect the therapeutic relationship. And what does it mean that the future? … when some practitioners and clients are already inside these systems while others have no voice in them at all.
Lesson arc
Systems thinking as clinical method ... applied now to AI itself
Feedback loops AI creates in clinical and institutional systems
Power mapping ... who benefits from AI adoption in mental health, who disappears?
The uneven distribution of the future ... access, surveillance, and who gets left out
Mental health, physical health, collective and societal health as one inseparable system
Your voice as a structural force ... why practitioners must be in the governance conversation
04
Authoring Your Relationship with AI
From passive recipient to conscious ethical agent
Ethics CE
This is the pivot point of the course and its most practical module. The practitioner stops being someone AI happens to and starts being someone who makes deliberate, values-grounded choices about how, when, and whether these tools enter her work. Ethics here is not abstract. It is the specific act of deciding which tools enter her practice and on what terms, what she will and will not use AI for with clients, how she will communicate about it, and what she will advocate for in her field. Values and beliefs are not fixed. They change and grow as she does. The personal AI framework she begins building here is a living document, not a final answer ... it is designed to evolve as the technology does and as she does.
Lesson arc
What it means to author a relationship ... agency as ethical practice
Ethical posture ... who am I in relation to this technology and what do I owe those it touches (including the environment)?
Values clarification ... what do I actually believe, and how do I want to live that in my practice?
Building your boundary map ... which tools enter your practice and on what terms?
Your discernment questions ... a set of questions you return to every time something new arrives
Values change and grow ... designing a framework that is alive, not fixed
05
AI in Clinical and Therapeutic Contexts
Professional responsibility, relational stakes, and passing it forward
Ethics CE
Everything lands here. This module brings the full course home to her actual practice and to the next generation she is training and supervising. What are her real ethical obligations around AI use with clients. Where does the therapeutic frame break down when AI enters it. What does informed consent look like when a client does not understand what AI is. How does she hold this with her associates and graduate students, who are forming their clinical identities at the exact moment the ground is shifting beneath the field. This module is not about rules. It is about integrity ... about holding what she has always held, with more consciousness, more courage, and more company than she had before.
Lesson arc
The therapeutic relationship as a protected relational space ... what AI threatens and what it cannot touch
Informed consent and transparency ... what clients have a right to know
Documentation, privacy, and data ... the ethical stakes of AI in the clinical record
Institutional pressure, liability, and the practitioner's ethical ground
Supervising and teaching through this ... what you pass forward to associates and students
Your professional AI advocacy position ... what the field should require, protect, and refuse
Four anchoring commitments that run through every module of the course
Technology and humanity are inseparable across all of history ... AI is the latest chapter, not a novel intrusion
Ethics is not a checklist ... it is a living, relational, values-grounded practice that changes as we grow
Mental health is not separate from physical, spiritual, collective, and societal health ... ever
Systems thinking is the lens ... who benefits, who is erased, what loops form, whose voice is missing
CAPSTONE
Capstone: A Personal AI Framework
You leave with a completed personal AI framework ... a two to four page living document written entirely in your voice. It holds five things: your values/integrity statement in relation to AI, a boundary map that names which tools enter your practice and on what terms, a set of discernment questions you return to every time something new arrives, your posture toward clients around consent and transparency, and your professional AI advocacy position ... what you believe the field should require, protect, and refuse.
It is not a technical artifact. It is an ethical one. Evidence that you have moved from reacting to authoring. You built it. It is yours.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
More durable
than a skill.
A shift in ethical posture toward AI ... you stop reacting and start authoring your relationship with these tools, deciding which ones enter your practice and on what terms.
A completed personal AI framework that includes your values statement, a boundary map for your practice, your discernment questions, your posture toward clients around consent and transparency, and your professional AI advocacy position ... something you can bring into supervision, present in consultation, or use to contribute to the larger field conversation.
CE credit hours toward licensure requirements (LPCs, LCSWs, and Psychologists).
The language to hold your position in any room ... within the privacy of your own heart, with clients, with colleagues, with institutions, and in the profession.
ENROLLMENT
This course belongs to you
regardless of what you can pay.
SOLIDARITY RATE
$75
For students, associates not yet earning a full salary, practitioners working in under-resourced communities, or anyone for whom the full rate would create genuine financial strain.
HUMANLY75
FULL RATE
$197
Your full rate directly supports access for those with less financial stability. No application. No explanation required on either end. You know your situation.
This pricing framework is adapted from the sliding scale model developed by Alexis J. Cunningfolk. The principle is simple: those with more financial stability subsidize access for those with less. Everyone gets the same course. Everyone belongs here.
Self-paced · CE Approved · Immediate Access
You will leave knowing
exactly where you stand.
And why.
"Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being."
bell hooks · All About Love
"In a world where AI is very smart and capable of doing so many things, the things that make us human will become much more important."
Daniela Amodei · ABC News Interview