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For school counselors and clinicians

This tool produces one page: a goal, a list of steps ordered by parent- or child-rated difficulty, and a summary of which kinds of situation carry the weight.

What a parent brings you

One page. A goal in the parent's words, then the steps they are avoiding, numbered from the one the child could try this week up to the one that is out of reach. Each step carries a 0 to 10 difficulty rating and the kinds of difficulty it involves. If enough steps are rated and one kind dominates, the page also carries a short summary of what the ratings have in common and a suggested question to bring to you.

What it is not

• It is not a screener and it produces no score.
• It does not diagnose, and the summaries name patterns rather than conditions.
• It is not a treatment plan. It is the input to one.
• It collects nothing about the family. No account, no database, no analytics. The plan lives in the parent's browser and in the share link, and nowhere else.
• The suggested steps and the pattern read-out come from Bia's clinical engine while the parent is using the tool. Those requests carry the step wording and the 0 to 10 ratings and nothing that identifies anyone — no account, no name, no child.

Using it in a meeting

Ask the parent to send the plan before the meeting. That moves the first half of the meeting off describing the problem, and it gives you the child's or parent's own difficulty ordering rather than a summary of it. Pick the lowest two steps that are still being avoided and agree who runs them, where the child goes, and what returns them to class. Put a review date on it.

Where the ratings can mislead

• A parent rating on their own will underestimate social steps and overestimate academic ones more often than the reverse. The tool asks who rated, and prints it on the plan.
• A flat ladder, where everything sits at 8 or 9, usually means the steps are too large rather than that everything is equally hard.
• When the hardest steps name a specific person or room, the tool stops recommending exposure and says to treat it as a supervision question first.

Recommending it

The tool is free, has no account, and shows no ads. It is built by the team behind Bia, a phobia and anxiety recovery app, and the step catalog is Bia's. The plan page carries one invitation to continue in Bia and nothing else is gated. If you would rather hand out the ladder with no app attached, the print output carries no app promotion.