Sample 06 · Counseling

Larkspur Family CounselingA sample counseling-center website. The organization is invented.

A nonprofit counseling center in a county-seat town: six licensed counselors, a sliding fee from $30 to $140, groups, a budget of about $600,000. The website never asks why someone is calling, and puts the crisis line before anything else.

The invented organization
  • KindCommunity counseling center
  • BudgetAbout $600,000; income $618,000 in FY2025
  • Staff6 counselors, an intake coordinator
  • Pages6, the wait and the groups staff-editable
  • Look"The waiting room": cream, sage and terracotta, a rounded card holding the current wait
  • Real?No. Every counselor, number and document is invented and labelled; no client is ever pictured
The Larkspur Family Counseling home page
What to try

Six things to press, in order.

Each one is a working feature, and each one is an example of what we build. Nothing you do on the site is recorded.

01

988 before anything else

The crisis line sits above the fold on every page in the words the line asks for, with the county line beside it. No popup, no footer.

Try: load any page; it is the first line.
Home →
The home page with the 988 line
02

The wait, in public

One number staff check on Mondays. The home page, Get help and For referrers read it, and the page says when it was last checked.

Try: find the wait on three pages; it is the same record.
Get help →
The Get help page with the wait card
03

A form that asks nothing clinical

Name, phone, a good time to call. The page says why. The real intake happens by phone or in the practice portal, never on this website.

Try: fill it with the sample; the result explains what happens next.
The call-back form →
The call-back form
04

Groups with a state

Open, waitlist or full, with the next date, edited on one sheet. A full group has no join link; an open one goes to the call-back form preset.

Try: ask about an open group; the form arrives preset.
Groups →
The Groups page
05

Counselors listed the way the rule asks

Licence type and number, languages, focus, days, and who is taking new clients. No faces, on purpose.

Try: count who is taking new clients; the home line says the same.
Counselors →
The Counselors page
06

A referral that carries nothing about the client

For schools, courts and physicians: your name and organization, how the client will reach the office, and a consent tick. No client field exists.

Try: submit without the tick.
For referrers →
The For referrers page
The staff side

Sign in. No password. Nothing you change is saved.

The button below signs you in to the real staff area as sample staff. You see what the organization's staff would see: one menu, a tile per tool, and the checks.

  • 01Tiles for The wait, Groups, Counselors, Services, Fee table, Numbers, Financial documents, Year-end
  • 02Checks: the wait older than a week, a full group with no next date, a counselor without a licence number
  • 03No texting screen on this demo, by design: nothing here holds a client's number
  • 04Press Update on anything and the screen says "Nothing was saved"
Open the staff preview →
Year-end statements — every donor is invented
The year-end statements staff screen: counts of statements ready and to check, and a list of sample donors with a status each
Built from these parts

What this sample shows that we build.

TRUST

988 on every page

Above the fold, SAMHSA wording.

CONTENT

The wait, posted by staff

Read on three pages; stale after ten days.

FORMS

Call-back form

Name, phone, a time. Nothing clinical.

FORMS

Referral form

No client field; consent required.

CONTENT

Groups with a state

Open, waitlist, full, next date.

CONTENT

Counselors per the rule

Licence type and number; no faces.

FINANCIALS

The fee fund, the year adding up

Numbers with a method; five filings.

STAFF

Staff preview

A public button into the real staff area, read-only.

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