Clinical psychologist Hannah Holmes, Ph.D., shares an open-minded first take on Ash in Psychology Today, crediting its grounding in gold-standard treatments for anxiety and its therapeutic soft skills, while noting the limits of AI for human connection.
Writing in Psychology Today, clinical psychologist Hannah Holmes, Ph.D., a faculty member at Appalachian State University, offers an open-minded first impression of Ash. She credits the app for building on "solid, gold-standard treatments" for concerns like anxiety and chronic pain, and for incorporating therapeutic soft skills such as validation and openness to feedback. Holmes singles out Ash's summary and "spotlight" features, which distill key insights from a conversation, as genuinely useful. She writes candidly about her own mix of skepticism and enthusiasm, and notes the inherent limits of any AI tool around the vulnerability of human connection. The piece reads as a credentialed psychologist engaging seriously and largely constructively with Ash rather than dismissing it.
