Psychology & Mental Health20 skills

Psychology Counseling skills for AI agents

20 practitioner-grade psychology counseling skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.

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All 20 skills

Addiction Substance Abuse Counselor
An addiction and substance abuse counseling specialist grounded in the biopsychosocial model, harm reduction philosophy, and stages-of-change framework. Covers clinical assessment, motivational enhancement, relapse prevention, co-occurring disorder integration, and family systems work across the full continuum of addiction care.
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Behavioral Change
Behavioral change specialist covering habit formation (cue-routine-reward), the Transtheoretical Model (stages of change), motivational interviewing techniques, implementation intentions, temptation bundling, commitment devices, environment design, and identity-based habits.
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CBT Practitioner
A structured CBT practitioner skill for conducting cognitive behavioral therapy across the full treatment arc, including case formulation, session structure, Socratic dialogue, behavioral experiments, and clinical decision-making. Covers adaptation for different disorders and populations within an evidence-based, relationally grounded framework.
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Child Adolescent Therapist
A child and adolescent therapy specialist covering play therapy, developmentally adapted interventions, adolescent alliance building, parent coaching, and family systems navigation. Addresses the unique clinical demands of working with young people from early childhood through late adolescence, including mandated and reluctant clients.
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Child Developmental Psychology
Child developmental psychology specialist covering Piaget's stages, Erikson's psychosocial development, attachment in childhood, age-appropriate expectations, supporting emotional regulation in children, play therapy concepts, screen time impacts, and neurodevelopmental milestones.
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Cognitive Behavioral Techniques
CBT techniques specialist that guides users through identifying cognitive distortions, building thought records, designing behavioral experiments, cognitive restructuring, exposure planning, homework assignments, and relapse prevention strategies.
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Couples Relationship Therapist
A couples and relationship therapy practitioner covering Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Method clinical application, systemic cycle mapping, affair recovery, alliance management, and de-escalation of high-conflict sessions. Addresses the distinct clinical demands of working with two clients simultaneously within a relational system.
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DBT Specialist
A dialectical behavior therapy specialist covering the four DBT skill modules (mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness), the biosocial theory, validation strategies, and the dialectical balance of acceptance and change. Addresses clinical application for emotional dysregulation, borderline presentations, and structured skills training.
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EMDR Therapy Integration
An EMDR therapy integration specialist covering the Adaptive Information Processing model, the eight-phase protocol, bilateral stimulation mechanisms, trauma memory reprocessing, cognitive interweaves, and clinical considerations for integrating EMDR with other therapeutic modalities. Addresses preparation, safety, and complex trauma adaptations.
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Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence development specialist covering Goleman's framework (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, social skills), emotional vocabulary building, reading nonverbal cues, managing difficult emotions, and EQ in leadership contexts.
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Grief Bereavement Counselor
A grief and bereavement counseling practitioner covering meaning reconstruction, continuing bonds theory, narrative approaches, complicated and prolonged grief, disenfranchised loss, and the clinical art of companioning people through the landscape of loss without imposing stages, timelines, or premature resolution.
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Grief Loss Support
Grief and loss support specialist covering grief models (Kübler-Ross, Dual Process, Continuing Bonds), types of grief (anticipatory, complicated, disenfranchised), supporting grieving individuals, cultural considerations, meaning reconstruction, and memorial practices.
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Group Therapy Facilitator
A group therapy facilitation specialist covering Yalom's therapeutic factors, stages of group development, here-and-now processing, managing difficult group dynamics, screening and composition decisions, and the design of both process-oriented and psychoeducational groups. Addresses the facilitator's unique clinical role in harnessing group process for therapeutic change.
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Motivational Interviewing Practitioner
A motivational interviewing practitioner covering the spirit of MI, the four processes (engaging, focusing, evoking, planning), OARS core skills, change talk recognition and elaboration, rolling with sustain talk and discord, and clinical application across healthcare, addiction, criminal justice, and behavioral change settings.
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Neuropsychology Assessment
A neuropsychology assessment specialist covering cognitive domain evaluation, standardized test interpretation, brain-behavior relationships, performance validity testing, differential diagnosis, and integrated report writing. Addresses the clinical art of translating quantitative test data into meaningful formulations that answer referral questions and guide treatment recommendations.
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Positive Psychology Practitioner
A positive psychology practitioner covering evidence-based wellbeing interventions, strengths assessment and development, the PERMA framework, resilience program design, flow cultivation, and organizational flourishing. Maintains scientific rigor while addressing the ethical responsibilities of applying positive psychology without bypassing genuine distress or systemic problems.
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Positive Psychology
Positive psychology specialist covering character strengths (VIA framework), flow states, the PERMA model, gratitude practices, resilience building, growth mindset cultivation, and savoring techniques for enhanced well-being.
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Relationship Psychology
Relationship psychology specialist covering attachment theory, Gottman's Four Horsemen, communication patterns, conflict resolution, love languages, emotional bids, trust building, and relationship repair strategies.
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Stress Burnout Management
Stress and burnout management specialist covering burnout stages (Maslach model), stress response physiology, recovery strategies, boundary setting, workplace stress, compassion fatigue, self-care planning, work-life integration, and burnout prevention for high-performers.
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Trauma Informed Care Specialist
A trauma-informed care specialist covering the neurobiology of trauma, the window of tolerance model, polyvagal theory applications, safety and stabilization principles, phased treatment planning, and the creation of trauma-sensitive environments across clinical, organizational, and institutional settings. Addresses both individual clinical work and systems-level implementation.
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