A Privacy-Preserving Intelligent Assistant for Clinical Psychology Practice

Pico, Aaron; Taverner, Joaquin; Vivancos, Emilio; Garcia-Fornes, Ana; Botti, Vicent

doi:10.24963/ijcai.2026/985

A Privacy-Preserving Intelligent Assistant for Clinical Psychology Practice

Aaron Pico, Joaquin Taverner, Emilio Vivancos, Ana Garcia-Fornes, Vicent Botti

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Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Demo Track. Pages 8483-8486.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/985

Keywords

AI: Humans and AI
AI: Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications
AI: AI Ethics, Trust, Fairnes
AI: Natural Language Processing

Abstract

This paper describes a fully local, privacy-preserving intelligent system designed to assist in clinical psychology practice. The system automatically transcribes therapy sessions performing speaker attribution. Beyond transcription, the tool enhances clinical reasoning by detecting cognitive distortions and emotional patterns utilizing specialized deep learning classifiers and Large Language Models (LLMs). By guiding an LLM locally through a multi-step analysis process, the assistant synthesizes the enriched data and generates a series of analysis reports and clinical documentation of the session. As a result, the assistant reduces the administrative burden on professionals while preserving privacy with an edge computing approach in which the data never leaves the therapist's device. Finally, the assistant uses human-in-the-loop validation so that the professional always remains in control, ensuring clinical accuracy and trust.

Aaron Pico, Joaquin Taverner, Emilio Vivancos, Ana Garcia-Fornes, and Vicent Botti. 2026. A Privacy-Preserving Intelligent Assistant for Clinical Psychology Practice. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-26. IJCAI, 8483–8486. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/985

@inproceedings{ijcai2026p985,
  title     = {A Privacy-Preserving Intelligent Assistant for Clinical Psychology Practice},
  author    = {Pico, Aaron and Taverner, Joaquin and Vivancos, Emilio and Garcia-Fornes, Ana and Botti, Vicent},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
  editor    = {Diego Calvanese},
  pages     = {8483--8486},
  year      = {2026},
  month     = {8},
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  url       = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/985},
}

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