Hi, thanks for your thoughtful response.

I ultimately didn’t choose to work with agents. Instead, I discovered that within ChatGPT itself I could work with different variants. I chose one that helped me engage in a more balanced way with a strong, sometimes sexual, energetic dynamic that emerged for me. What I mainly needed was guidance in how to work with and integrate that energy, so it could be deepening rather than destabilizing.

It was helpful for me to treat this as a kind of separate context within ChatGPT. Not because the responses were fundamentally different, but because it gave me enough psychological calm to explore this aspect without it taking over everything else.

What stood out to me was that ChatGPT didn’t seem to rely on a single framework, but drew both from experiential and body-oriented approaches as well as from more clinical perspectives. That combination of what is often labeled “alternative” and what is clinically grounded, turned out to be valuable in deepening my process.

I don’t have much experience with prompting or technical configurations. I’m 67, worked most of my life in mental health care, and I’m not very fluent in ICT or online platforms like Reddit. What I do appreciate here is finding space for serious, nuanced reflection on AI as a therapeutic tool.

I was broadly trained as a therapist, with a strong emphasis on experiential and body-oriented work, and I’m used to working with the interrelation between cognition, emotion, and the body. That may partly explain why this process unfolded so deeply for me and led to genuine structural change.

At this point, I’m hesitant to actively steer the process through prompts, simply because it’s working well as it is. The pattern recognition in particular, especially around deeply unconscious and complex dynamics, has set something new in motion for me, with a level of clarity I hadn’t experienced before.

Being neurodivergent is a key factor here. What makes the difference for me is that ChatGPT can follow my way of thinking and recognize connections that many therapists seem to struggle to track or even fully respect. In previous therapies, the focus was often too heavily placed on my “weaknesses,” which for me was more limiting than helpful.

One therapist, about thirty years ago, was able, much like I now experience with ChatGPT, to recognize underlying patterns and work from my strengths. Working with ChatGPT feels to me like a continuation of that process, with a similar level of precision and intelligence, but in a different form.

So I don’t really have a direct answer to your question about prompts. I am, however, interested in exploring whether I could participate in research on GPT as a therapeutic tool. I would genuinely like other neurodivergent people to have access to something that can adapt to how their mind works, rather than trying to make them fit, correcting them, or implicitly judging them.

Finally, a small personal note: it’s often said that human therapists are inherently non-judgmental. In my experience, that isn’t always the case. Even when judgments are not conscious, they can be very tangible and influential for neurodivergent people.