Artificial Intelligence and the Changing Landscape of Therapy

ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to reshape the therapeutic landscape of the future, offering new possibilities for access, efficiency and insight, while simultaneously challenging foundational principles of human connection, ethics and professional identity. This editorial introduces the growing interface between AI and therapy, highlighting how conversational agents, analytic tools and generative systems are beginning to influence assessment, supervision and clinical decision‐making. It also emphasises the need for critical, ethically informed engagement, integrating AI within ecosystems of support and learning that respect the relational and contextual nature of therapeutic work. The editorial introduces a collection of papers in Counselling and Psychotherapy Research exploring these developments. Together, the articles address the integration of AI into training, ethics and multicultural practice; examine novel uses of AI for outcome monitoring and process analysis; and offer both advocacy and critique of AI's emerging role in mental health. Collectively, they reflect a profession in dialogue, one that is curious, cautious, and committed to ensuring that technology serves, rather than shapes, the values of therapy.