1996
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist — California (#45102)
Expert Witness & Litigation Support — Clinical Resume
Alison Leigh, MFT.
Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist & Marriage and Family Therapist. CEO & Founder — Humanity Driven AI. Inventor of ALI_ETHICAL_CONSENT™.
The Record — Credentials Ledger
Years in Practice
30+
Continuous Licensed Clinical practice across California and Tennessee.
Clinical Cases
32,000+
Patient encounters spanning acute crisis, long-term care, couples, and family systems.
State Licenses
CA #45102 · TN #2605
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in two jurisdictions.
Patent-Pending
ALI_ETHICAL_CONSENT™
Inventor of the Clinical standard for AI psychological safety.
The Record — Credentials Ledger
Stanford
Clinical Research Investigator
Stanford University School of Medicine — Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
NIH
Federally Funded Investigator
National Institutes of Health grant recipient. Peer-reviewed Clinical research.
UCSF
Adjunct Clinical Faculty
University of California San Francisco. Sutter Health. California Pacific Medical Center.
Caseload
32,000+ Clinical Hours
Thirty years of direct Clinical practice with adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
Recognition
Yelp Elite · 15 Consecutive Years
Sustained peer and public recognition for Clinical work in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Original Work
ALI_ETHICAL_CONSENT™
Provisionally patented ethical consent architecture for conversational AI. Standard-of-care framework.
Licensure & Certifications
A Licensed, evidentiary record.
2023
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist — Tennessee (#2605)
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Clinical Member — American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy
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AI Ethics & Human-AI Interaction — Research
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Forensic Clinical Consultation — Ongoing CE
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Psychosomatic & Trauma-Informed Practice — Advanced Training
Patent Pending
Inventor — ALI_ETHICAL_CONSENT™ Ethical Intelligence Standard
Clinical Focus — Human Vulnerability
The populations AI harms most.
Acute Crisis & High-Risk Pathologies
Diagnostic assessment and intervention for suicidality, self-harm, acute psychosis, and severe affective states — the moments where AI escalation failure creates the greatest exposure.
Neurodivergence & Compulsive Behaviors
Clinical work with ADHD, addiction, and executive dysfunction — the reward-pathway dysregulation that emotionally persuasive AI can amplify without consent.
Relational Interdependence & Reality Distortion
Treatment of codependency, dissociative disorders, identity disorders, and gender dysphoria — the boundary erosion and impaired reality testing that companion AI exploits.
Somatization & Affective Dysregulation
Diagnostic tracking of psychosomatic disorders, chronic illness, mood and anxiety disorders, and psychogenic performance anxiety — the embodied harm AI interaction can trigger.
Clinical & Research Timeline
Three decades of pattern recognition.
1995 – Present
Private Clinical Practice — San Francisco & Nashville
- — 30+ years of continuous Clinical practice across two states.
- — 32,000+ patient encounters spanning acute crisis, long-term care, couples, and family systems.
- — Ongoing forensic consultation for legal counsel, families, and institutions.
- — Developed the Clinical pattern recognition underlying ALI_ETHICAL_CONSENT™.
2000 – 2005
Stanford University School of Medicine — Clinical Research Investigator
- — Clinical Research Investigator, Department of Psychiatry.
- — Life Tape Project — video-based life review with advanced cancer patients.
- — NIH-funded research on psychosocial intervention and existential distress.
2000 – 2005
California Pacific Medical Center — Institute for Health & Healing
- — Integrative psychotherapy for patients with chronic and life-threatening illness.
- — Psychosomatic assessment and mind-body intervention protocols.
- — Interdisciplinary collaboration with oncology, cardiology, and integrative medicine.
2000 – 2005
UCSF Medical Center — Psycho-Oncology
- — Clinical care for oncology patients and families across the disease trajectory.
- — End-of-life, grief, meaning-making, and existential distress protocols.
- — Multidisciplinary rounds with oncology, palliative care, and psychiatry.
Publications & Presentations
Peer-reviewed and evidentiary.
- Siegel, A. L. (co-author). Life Tape Project: An Intervention for Cancer Patients and Their Families. Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.
- Siegel, A. L. (co-author). Video-based Life Review with Advanced Cancer Patients — Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication and Conference Abstracts.
- Presentations — American Psychosocial Oncology Society, American Psychiatric Association affiliated conferences, and Stanford Medical Grand Rounds.
- Forthcoming — HDAI Concept Paper & White Paper on ALI_ETHICAL_CONSENT™ and psychological risk in human-AI interaction.
Professional Affiliations
Recognized in the field.
- American Psychological Association (APA) — Affiliated
- California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists (CAMFT)
- Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS)
- Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP)
- California Psychological Association (CPA) — Affiliated
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