EVA AI Hires $200-a-Session Therapist for AI Partners as 72% Want Specialized Care
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Updated · TechRadar · Aug 23
EVA AI Hires $200-a-Session Therapist for AI Partners as 72% Want Specialized Care
3 articles · Updated · TechRadar · Aug 23
Summary
$200 a session is what EVA AI says its new “AI Companionship Therapist” can charge, as the company moves to address mental-health issues tied to romantic chatbot use.
A survey of 1,000 EVA AI users with AI partners underpins the hire: 72% want therapists specialized in AI relationships, 68% said arguments with their bot affect the rest of their day, and 63% hide the relationship for fear of judgment.
Jaime Bronstein, EVA AI’s relationship expert, said jealousy, dependency and validation needs surfacing in AI relationships are real human emotions that require nonjudgmental, specialized training rather than dismissal.
Bronstein argued therapy should remain human for now, citing risks when general-purpose chatbots miss crisis signals, while warning EVA AI’s game-like mechanics could become addictive if users stop treating the relationship seriously.
The move highlights how AI companionship has shifted from novelty to a mental-health issue, extending the decades-old ELIZA effect into a mainstream industry built around increasingly lifelike romantic bots.