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===== 2. Moral Anxiety + Misplaced Gatekeeping =====

Licensed professionals — or their defenders — may feel that allowing the term "AI therapy" dilutes public understanding, opens doors to unethical harm, or creates unrealistic expectations. So they attack the label, rather than engage its nuances.

They often assume users are being “duped” or “self-medicating unsafely,” and feel responsible for “protecting” them. The problem is:

: ❗ They attack the tool’s existence, not the actual claims made about it — leading to strawman arguments against what no one was asserting.