Woebot, a Facebook Messenger Chatbot, Teaches Users Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Alison Darcy, PhD, wants to make therapy accessible — so accessible, in fact, all you have to do is log in to Facebook. Woebot, Darcy’s brainchild, is a chatbot that delivers cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), one of the most widely used types of evidence-based therapy for mental illness, through Facebook messenger. “I think people are [...]