Vlad Munteanu When it helps: Built on a steady day, used on the worst one. A crisis is the wrong time to remember phone numbers and good ideas, so we write them down in advance.
When it doesn't: It doesn't replace emergency services, and it isn't homework to do alone. We build it together in session, that's the point of it.
This tool is for clients
It needs a therapeutic relationship to be used well, so it opens with a passphrase. You receive it in session. Nothing is being sold behind this door.
This is based on the safety planning intervention developed by Stanley & Brown, the structure used in crisis care worldwide. Six short sections, from earliest warning signs to making your space safer, ordered the way a difficult night actually unfolds: notice early, try what works alone, reach for people, reach for professionals, and put distance between yourself and harm.
Your plan saves only in this browser, on this device. This site has no server to send it to. Print a copy too. Paper doesn’t need a password on a bad night.
Writing it can stir things up. That's expected and worth saying out loud in session. Most people feel steadier once it exists.
We fill this in together, in session. Then it lives here, in your browser, for the moments it was written for. Plain words beat impressive ones: write what future-you, on a bad night, will actually understand.
If you are in danger right now, skip the plan: crisis page: numbers that answer immediately
Saved in this browser · The plan is saved only in this browser, on this device. Clearing browser data deletes it, so keep a printed copy somewhere that bad nights can reach.
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