Sculpting LLMs for Good.
Therapist-Crafted Guides & Tools for Safer Relational AI
A Therapist-Led Hub for Ethical AI Integration
Tools. Training. Theory. Together.
PracticeField is a learning and resource platform for therapists navigating the rise of generative AI. I equip clinicians with the language, tools, and ethical frames needed to engage AI without losing the soul or safety of the work.
Whether you're just learning what an LLM is—or shaping custom prompt strategies for client safety—PracticeField offers trauma-informed, developmentally aware, and clinically grounded guidance.
Why PracticeField?
Because therapists are already being asked.
Clients are using AI for journaling, disclosure, and distress support. Without a shared framework for safety and containment, we risk harm, rupture, or missed opportunities.
Because therapists need somewhere to practice.
I'm building a space where you can explore, adapt, and experiment with AI relational tools and improve your practice.
Because the future of mental health depends on us.
Clinicians must help shape how AI enters and shapes the field. The stakes are extraordinarily high.
What You'll Find Here
AI Literacy for Therapists & Clients
Simple explainers and deeper dives into how LLMs work, why tone matters, and how to stay grounded in clinical ethics.
Relational AI Tools
Therapist-designed, client-ready modules & prompts for between-session support—including strategic disclosure rehearsal and psychoeducation.
Prompt Safety Frameworks
Cut-and-paste XML-style structures and co-design strategies for building safer, trauma-informed AI interactions.
e.g.: Sculpt a More Responsible Bot and Safer Prompt Sculpting for Suicidal Disclosure
A Growing Movement
Join other clinicians who believe AI should be shaped in service of care—not productivity or profit.
Grounded in Human Relationship
I’m Jocelyn Skillman, LMHC—a therapist and relational design ethicist. I created PracticeField to help clinicians stay steady as the field shifts. Our work is too sacred to outsource. But it’s also too strategic to ignore what’s emerging.
AI won’t replace the therapeutic relationship. But it’s already reshaping how clients reflect, reveal, and reach for support. PracticeField exists to help us meet that moment—together, wisely, and with care.
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© All content by Jocelyn Skillman, LMHC — Therapist. Ethicist. AI Educator.
The therapeutic frame is evolving.
I'm Jocelyn Skillman, LMHC, MHP, CMHS—a licensed therapist and relational design ethicist. My work sits at the intersection of psychotherapy and AI ethics, with a mission to ensure that generative AI is integrated into mental health care in protective, strategic, and deeply relational ways.
AI has real power—and real risks. Large Language Models (LLMs) can simulate resonance, spark insight, and scaffold new patterns of connection. But these tools must be shaped by those who understand the emotional, ethical, and developmental complexity of relational fields.
That’s why I’m building PracticeField: a therapist-led platform of AI-powered relational tools, designed not to replace therapy, but to extend its reach. Rooted in embodiment, consent, and connection, this suite offers clients safe, structured ways to rehearse growth between sessions—while protecting what makes therapy irreplaceable: the healing power of human presence.
Leverage AI for Mental Health.
We speak to ourselves as we've been spoken to.
Empower Clients
Empower clients to safely engage with AI—while holding space for deep integration and emotional metabolization within the core of the therapeutic alliance.
Diminish Emotional Loads
Let ethical AI hold structured emotional intensity between sessions—so you don’t have to hold it alone.
What are *LLMs?
LLMs (Large Language Models) are advanced AI systems trained on massive text datasets. They predict and generate sentences that read as if written by a person—but this is a pattern-based statistical output, not genuine understanding.
AI can simulate presence—but not embody it.
LLMs generate plausible responses, not genuine understanding. They’re powerful for structure, reflection, and rehearsal—but they can’t feel, intend, or repair.
Used wisely, AI can support emotional insight and relational growth. Used uncritically, it risks over-identification, reduced distress tolerance, and blurred boundaries of agency and care.
PracticeField is designed to honor this line—leveraging AI’s strengths while protecting what only humans can hold.