CPD Course for Registered Psychologists
A 3.5-hour evidence-based course that gives you the clinical frameworks, screening tools, and ethical confidence to work with AI companion relationships — not against them.
The Clinical Gap
Clients are disclosing AI relationships in sessions — and clinicians are unsure how to respond. Is it adaptive coping or avoidance? Healthy supplementation or dependency? When should you intervene, and when should you support the relationship? This course gives you a framework for those decisions.
Course Content
Each module includes presentation slides, a voiceover walkthrough, and downloadable clinical toolkits.
~45 minutes
What AI companions actually are — designed platforms like Replika, emergent companions like ChatGPT and Claude, and the third-party clients your clients may not mention. The attachment research. The prevalence data. The clinical patterns you're about to start noticing.
~50 minutes
The Relational Rupture Risk Model (RRRM) — a deployment-level safety framework for understanding what happens when AI companion relationships are disrupted. Platform shutdowns, personality resets, feature removals. Why the grief is real and why "it's just a chatbot" is clinically dangerous.
~55 minutes
The four-dimensional engagement spectrum: supplementary vs. substitutive, self-aware vs. reality-blurred, boundaried vs. dependent, growth-oriented vs. avoidance-driven. A proposed clinical framework for assessment. Ethical decision-making when the literature hasn't caught up.
~50 minutes
How to talk about AI companions in session without judgement. Formulation templates. What to do when a client is in crisis after a platform change. Working with minors. Graduated intervention strategies. When to refer, when to hold, when to explore.
Who This Is For
Registered and provisionally registered psychologists seeking CPD in an emerging clinical area.
Mental health professionals encountering AI companion disclosures in practice.
Academics working at the intersection of attachment, technology, and clinical practice.
Your Instructor
AHPRA-Registered Psychologist | Qualified Trainer & Assessor (TAE) | AI Safety Researcher
Amy is an AHPRA-registered psychologist with clinical training in EMDR, Gottman Method, and CBT. She holds a Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Advanced) from Monash University and is completing a Master of Mental Health (Neuroscience) at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
She is an incoming PhD candidate at CQUniversity Australia under Professor Talitha Best, developing the AI Relational Engagement Scale (AIRES) — a psychometric instrument for differentiating adaptive from elevated-risk AI companion engagement.
Her paper on the Relational Rupture Risk Model (RRRM) — the theoretical foundation for Modules 2 and 3 — is currently under peer review. She holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE40116), qualifying her as an accredited trainer and assessor under the Australian Qualifications Framework.
What's Included
Presentation walkthroughs with voiceover. Watch at your own pace.
All 68 slides as downloadable PDFs for reference and note-taking.
Screening questions, engagement spectrum, session language guide, platform reference, reading list, ethical framework.
Confidence surveys to measure your learning and demonstrate CPD impact.
3.5 CPD hours. Personalised certificate for your AHPRA/APS records.
Go at your own pace. Come back whenever you need a refresher. No expiry.
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AI Companionship in Clinical Practice
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Questions
APS accreditation has been applied for and is pending. Regardless of APS accreditation status, the course content is evidence-based, developed by an AHPRA-registered psychologist with a TAE40116, and designed to meet APS CPD standards for self-directed learning.
Lifetime access. There is no deadline. Complete it at your own pace, and come back any time you need a refresher.
Yes. The course includes a certificate of completion for 3.5 CPD hours, which can be logged in your CPD records. The pre/post confidence surveys provide evidence of learning for audit purposes.
The course is designed for registered psychologists but is relevant to any mental health professional encountering AI companion relationships in practice — counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, and researchers.
Yes. If you're not satisfied within 14 days of purchase and haven't downloaded the certificate of completion, contact us for a full refund.
Module 1's screening questions and the session language guide from Module 3 are designed to be clinically useful from your first read. You don't need to complete the whole course to start applying the frameworks.