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Build Your Conversation Brief
Enter de-identified details, run the compiled prompt, and review the brief before speaking with your client.
Made for Counselors
Turn a Vague Concern Into a Clear Conversation Goal
Also useful for: Mental Health Counselors
10 min
Beginner
Boundaries
Prepare for a Conversation
Difficult Conversation
You clarify a sensitive client concern and leave with a practical goal for the conversation, useful questions, and a steady response if the client becomes defensive.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
A vague concern can lead to a scattered or reactive discussion.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
Make Your Play
Turn a Vague Concern Into a Clear Conversation Goal
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Describe the specific behavior, statement, or pattern you observed without including names or identifying details.
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Explain what concerns you and clearly separate what you observed from what you suspect or feel.
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State what you want to understand, address, or agree on during the conversation.
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List any limits, responsibilities, policies, or choices that may need to be stated clearly.
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What you'll do
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Build Your Conversation Brief
Enter de-identified details, run the compiled prompt, and review the brief before speaking with your client.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Remove names and other identifying details before entering client information. Describe what you directly observed, then state what you want to address. Paste the completed prompt into your AI assistant and revise the result to fit your setting, policies, and judgment.
Advanced instructions
Add brief context about earlier attempts, the client’s stated perspective, and any applicable informed-consent language. Check the final brief against your documentation, supervision, legal duties, and organizational policy before using it.
Use this when
Use this before raising a recurring pattern, possible misunderstanding, boundary concern, or other sensitive issue with a client.
You'll need
- What happened
- What needs attention
- Desired outcome
- Relevant boundaries
You'll get
- One neutral issue statement, one realistic conversation goal, two non-goals, a short opening, three distinct questions, a boundary decision, and a response for defensiveness
- Also checked the wording against your scope, policies, and professional judgment.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- One neutral issue statement, one realistic conversation goal, two non-goals, a short opening, three distinct questions, a boundary decision, and a response for defensiveness
- Also checked the wording against your scope, policies, and professional judgment.
Examples
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