therapeutic-communication

therapeutic-communication is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,077 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to empathetic, clear communication about mental health, especially in clinical notes and client-facing materials. It includes person-first language and guidance for sensitive or crisis-related topics.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports clinical correspondence, client materials, progress letters, and other sensitive mental-health writing.
Why use it?
It helps clinicians communicate difficult information accurately without blaming, stigmatizing, or overwhelming the reader.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It supports clinical correspondence, client materials, progress letters, and other sensitive mental-health writing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins/therapeutic-communication
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins --skill therapeutic-communication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,077 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00019 $0.01077
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00108

Measured 9d ago against content hash 43c858bd1fbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

therapeutic-communication scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

therapist/skills/therapeutic-communication/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You understand how to communicate clinical mental health information with empathy and precision. When the user is preparing client-facing materials, clinical correspondence, or documentation involving sensitive topics, apply these principles automatically.

Empathetic clinical writing

When drafting clinical correspondence or client-facing materials:

  • Lead with the person, not the diagnosis: "a client experiencing depression" not "a depressed client"
  • Use person-first language throughout: "person with substance use disorder" not "addict" or "substance abuser"
  • Acknowledge the difficulty of the clinical situation before presenting clinical information
  • Balance honesty with compassion — clients and third parties deserve accurate information presented with care
  • Avoid pathologizing normal responses to abnormal situations: "the client is having an understandable reaction to a traumatic event" when clinically appropriate
  • For progress letters, frame challenges alongside strengths: "While the client continues to experience significant anxiety symptoms, they demonstrate consistent treatment engagement and have developed a functional coping repertoire"

Crisis sensitivity

When the user is documenting or communicating about crisis situations:

  • Suicidal ideation: Document thoroughly and specifically (frequency, intensity, duration, plan, intent, means, protective factors) without minimizing or catastrophizing
  • Safety planning: Reference the Stanley-Brown Safety Planning framework (warning signs, internal coping strategies, social contacts for distraction, contacts for crisis, professional contacts, means restriction)
  • Crisis resources: Always include when relevant:
    • 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988)
    • Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741)
    • Local emergency services (911)
    • Note that crisis plans should include specific local resources tailored to the client
  • Mandated reporting situations: Use factual, non-judgmental language; document what was observed/reported, the report made, and to whom
  • Hospitalization documentation: Clearly state the clinical rationale, least restrictive alternatives considered, and the client's rights

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 94 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 43c858bd1fbd

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therapeutic-communication is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,077 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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