Module 1 · The Build Kit and your practice profile
Download the Therapist Build Kit
This is the lesson that makes the rest of the course copy-and-paste. By the end of it, the Therapist Build Kit will be sitting in your project folder, and you will have checked, with one short prompt, that its instructions are the ones Claude reads first. From then on every prompt can be short, because the know-how already lives in the folder.
Download the kit
The kit is a handful of plain-text files. There is no program to install and nothing that runs on its own. Claude reads the files and follows them, the same way you would follow a good supervisor’s written notes.
What is inside
The main file is CLAUDE.md, the standing brief Claude reads at the start of every session in your folder. You met a starter version of it in Module 0; the kit’s version replaces that one. It opens with the same rule: nothing about a client ever goes into the folder or into Claude.
Beside it sits a folder of skills. A skill is a written brief for one job, which Claude reads in full before it starts that part of the build. There are six:
brand-strategy
Positioning the practice in the client's words, the voice, and the visual rules.
web-architecture
Planning every page, the calls to action and the notices before anything is built.
copywriting
Writing any words that will appear on the site.
frontend-design
Building the site, and the contact form.
compliance-check
Everything the site is and is not allowed to say, and the notices it must carry.
deploy
GitHub, Vercel, the domain, and going live.
It is a checklist that Claude runs through every stage, not a lawyer and not an ethics consultation. It flags the wording and the missing notices that commonly cause trouble for a therapy practice website. It cannot tell you what applies to your license in your state. Module 6 teaches that part properly, and your own judgment is the other half of the check.
How the pieces fit
1CLAUDE.mdThe standing brief: the never-paste rule, the kickoff questions, and the order of the build
2Seven stagesBrand strategy · Architecture & copy · Build · Lead capture & intake · Audit & compliance · GitHub backup · Go live
3Six skillsThe detailed brief for each stage, in the .claude/skills folder, opened by Claude when that stage begins
Put it in your project folder
- Find the downloaded
therapist-build-kit.zipand unzip it: double-click it on a Mac, or right-click it and choose Extract All on Windows. - Inside, you will see exactly two things: a file called
CLAUDE.mdand a folder called.claude. Copy both into your project folder from Module 0, so they sit directly inside it, not inside another folder within it. - Your computer will say the folder already has a
CLAUDE.md(the starter note from Module 0) and ask what to do. Choose to replace it. The kit’s version is the full one.
On a Mac, folders whose names begin with a dot are hidden in Finder, so you may not see .claude after copying it. That is normal. The check below confirms Claude can see it.
Check that the kit’s CLAUDE.md is the one in charge
Open your project folder on the Code tab in Claude, as you did in Module 0, and paste this:
The first-line check
Read the first line of CLAUDE.md and tell me what it says. Don't change anything.
What to check: Claude should report this line, exactly: # CLAUDE.md — Therapist Website Build Kit. If it reports anything else, such as the first line of your Module 0 starter note, the kit’s file did not replace the old one. Copy CLAUDE.md out of the zip into your folder again, choose replace, and run the check once more.
In Module 4, Claude installs the website’s building blocks into this folder. The tool that does that can write a CLAUDE.md of its own. The kit already tells Claude how to stop that happening, and to run this same first-line check afterward. Knowing the check yourself means you can confirm it in ten seconds whenever something feels off.
Nothing in the kit asks for client information, and nothing you add to this folder should contain any. If a later step seems to need an example of how people describe their problem, use a made-up one and say it is made up.
You unzipped it and got a folder inside a folder. Windows names the extracted folder after the zip. Open it until you can see CLAUDE.md and .claude side by side, and copy those two, not the folder around them.
Claude says it can’t find CLAUDE.md or the skills. You are probably in the wrong folder. Check the folder name shown on the Code tab is your project folder, not Documents or Downloads, then paste the check again.
You can’t see the .claude folder on a Mac. Press Cmd + Shift + . in Finder to show hidden folders. On Windows it shows like any other folder, so if File Explorer doesn’t show it, it was not copied: copy it again from the unzipped files.
Your project folder holds CLAUDE.md and .claude, and Claude has told you the first line of CLAUDE.md is # CLAUDE.md — Therapist Website Build Kit. The next lesson is the kickoff.
- The kit is plain-text instructions: one
CLAUDE.mdand six skills, covering seven stages. - The two items go directly inside your project folder, and the kit’s
CLAUDE.mdreplaces the Module 0 starter note. - The first-line check tells you in ten seconds whether the kit is the brief Claude is following.
- compliance-check is a checklist, not advice; Module 6 teaches what it checks for.
Watch this step
The pace of a good build session: look around, plan, make the change, save a snapshot. The Build Kit follows the same rhythm, one stage at a time. It’s from an independent creator — credited below, so go give them a follow.
The Explore → Plan → Code → Commit workflow in Claude Code
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