Google AI for Therapy and Coaching Practices

Your clients already ask a chatbot about the things you talk about in session. Your colleagues already draft notes with AI. Your ethics code says you must be competent with the tools you use. The gap between what you do and what you can defend is where this book lives.
This is not a hype book that says Gemini will write your notes and read your client. It is not a fear book that says lock every computer. It is a practical map of the Google family, Gemini at gemini.google.com, Gemini Notebook at notebooklm.google.com, Gemini in Workspace, and the enterprise tier, ranked by privacy and control.
The most important idea is the split between clinical use and administrative use. Clinical touches the work itself, notes and formulations. Administrative handles the business around it, emails and marketing. Different weight, different caution.
Inside, you will discover:
• The source first method: build 1 notebook per topic, upload trusted documents, and get grounded answers with citations
• Why raw session recordings never go into any AI tool and the text first loop that keeps judgment yours
• The HIPAA and BAA map: which Workspace services can hold protected health information and why NotebookLM cannot
• Documentation that survives scrutiny, the 5 qualities of accuracy, objectivity, specificity, timeliness and professionalism
• Psychoeducation handouts at the right reading level, with the trauma informed edit that makes a page foldable
• Session preparation and aftercare routines you can run in 10 minutes, including the 5 question decision frame
• Prompt craft with 5 parts, role, task, context, constraints and format, plus a starter library you can reuse
You also get the coaching lane, bias and hallucination defenses, supervision uses, and the durable skills that survive every rename. If you can explain where client information goes, you are competent. This book gets you there in an afternoon.