Imaginal Exposure Safety Anchoring Protocol
A safety-critical micro-intervention where the therapist delivers two standardized verbal anchors—'It's just a memory' and 'You are safe here in the office'—during high-distress moments to prevent dissociation and reinforce present-moment orientation.
npx skills add ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill --skill Imaginal Exposure Safety Anchoring Protocol --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Imaginal Exposure Safety Anchoring Protocol A safety-critical micro-intervention where the therapist delivers two standardized verbal anchors—'It's just a memory' and 'You are safe here in the office'—during high-distress moments to prevent dissociation and reinforce present-moment orientation. ## Prompt When client SUDS ≥ 90 OR shows dissociative signs (blank stare, slowed speech, disorientation) OR begins narrating trauma in unguided present tense: deliver *both* anchors verbatim, calmly and firmly, without pausing for response; then immediately invite continuation ('keep going'). Do not paraphrase, omit either phrase, or delay delivery. ## Objective Prevent acute dissociation or panic during imaginal exposure by reinforcing reality testing and environmental safety at critical arousal thresholds. ## Applicable Signals - SUDS ≥ 90 - verbal or nonverbal dissociation cues - unprompted present-tense narration of trauma ## Contraindications - Client explicitly rejects grounding language or becomes visibly agitated by it - Client is in active flashback (e.g., loss of environmental awareness, motor freezing, perceptual distortion — requires physical grounding first) - Therapist has no
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What does the Imaginal Exposure Safety Anchoring Protocol skill do?
A safety-critical micro-intervention where the therapist delivers two standardized verbal anchors—'It's just a memory' and 'You are safe here in the office'—during high-distress moments to prevent dissociation and reinforce present-moment orientation.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill --skill Imaginal Exposure Safety Anchoring Protocol --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill, a repository with 539 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.