Client Fit Screener
Answer questions about the client to surface which modalities might fit. This is a teaching tool, not a clinical decision-maker — it surfaces options for consideration, not prescriptions. Questions are ordered the way clinical thinking works: safety first, then presentation, then approach preferences.
About the Client Fit Screener
This teaching tool walks through clinical decision-making the way an experienced therapist thinks: safety and crisis level first, then presenting problem and symptom pattern, then client preferences and practical factors. Based on your answers, it scores all 141 modalities in the dataset and surfaces which approaches have the strongest theoretical and empirical fit for the client profile you've described.
Scoring reflects weighted matching across multiple dimensions — evidence tier for the presenting condition, modality format compatibility (individual, couples, group), treatment focus alignment, and philosophical approach. Modalities with guideline-level evidence for the specified condition receive the strongest weighting. The results are not clinical recommendations; they are a structured way to generate options for consideration, discussion in supervision, and further research.
This tool is designed for counseling students learning to think about treatment selection, clinicians exploring unfamiliar modalities for a specific client presentation, and supervisors facilitating case conceptualization discussions. Many factors beyond any screener determine therapeutic fit: alliance quality, therapist competence, cultural context, client preference, and practical constraints like cost and availability.