Aaron Balick, PhD, is a psychotherapist, author, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, and a founding member and former chair of The Relational School, UK. His book聽The Psychodynamics of Social Networking聽was among the first to apply psychoanalytic theory to social media, establishing him as an international voice on the psychodynamics of digital life. Committed to widening public understanding of psychology, he has contributed widely to broadcast and print media, including as resident psychotherapist on BBC Radio 1's聽The Surgery聽and as a columnist for GQ. He now writes the Substack聽Depth Psychology in the Digital Age. An associate of The Balint Consultancy, he runs a private practice in London.
Tati Silva is a 麻豆原创-accredited psychotherapist, a DPsych researcher, and a lead Psychedelic Therapist at Imperial College London whose work sits at the intersection where clinical depth meets cultural intelligence, and increasingly, where human presence meets artificial intelligence.
Originally from Brazil and based in London, Tati is the founder of 8 Dimensions of Wellness and creator of The Wholeness Framework鈩�. Her current preoccupation is the question this panel is here to explore: what does it mean to truly hold someone in an age of intelligent machines? She has been intentionally seeking out the spaces where clinicians, researchers, and technologists are wrestling with that question together, because she thinks therapists need to be in those conversations early, not handed the conclusions afterwards.
