Relapse has an order. Map it together.
A new interactive tool for sequencing warning signs — and naming what interrupts each one
Most clients can list their warning signs. Far fewer can tell you which one comes first. That order is the part that matters clinically — it's the difference between knowing relapse is possible and knowing you have about a week.
The Relapse Pathway Map is built for that conversation. Your client places their own warning signs along a pathway from steady ground toward relapse, then names what could interrupt each one. Nothing is scored and nothing is diagnosed. The work is in the sequencing, and in what happens when they move a tile and say no, actually that one came before the other.
This month's issue was pointed at International Overdose Awareness Day on the 31st, and at treating relapse as a process you can interrupt rather than an event you can only document. This is the tool for that.
The Relapse Pathway Map
A collaborative in-session tool. Free with a free account — no payment, no tier.
Relapse Pathway Map
Interactive · Use in session · Works on laptop, tablet, or phone
Two decks — twenty-three warning signs and twenty-three interventions — and a pathway running from steady ground to relapse. Place the signs your client recognizes in the order they tend to show up, then attach the interventions that could realistically interrupt each one. Tiles deepen in color the further down the pathway they sit, so how far along a client's cluster falls is visible at a glance. Every tile flips over for a reflective question, and anything not on the list can be added in your client's own words.
Open the Tool →How it runs in session
The clinician guide is still being written. It'll go up on this page later this month — how to introduce the map, what a client's sequence tends to reveal, and what to do when a client places everything at Late or can't place anything at all.
You don't need it to start. The tool has a built-in walkthrough that covers setup and the basics of running it in session.
The Relapse Pathway Kit
The physical version of the same method — for the table, and for the room.
Tiles, poster, and clinician reference cards
The digital map does what a screen does well — one client, one clinician, quick to reset. The kit does what paper does better: a group around a table, everyone reaching for tiles, no device between you and the person across from you.
- Warning sign tiles and intervention tiles, reflective question printed on the back of each
- Blank tiles for anything a client names that isn't on the list
- Full-size pathway poster, flat on any surface
- Laminated clinician reference cards for the questions
Not for sale yet — production is still underway. It'll be announced in a future drop when it's actually ready to ship.
The Relapse Pathway Map is a clinician-facilitated mapping tool for use alongside treatment. It is not an assessment or screening instrument, produces no score, and is not intended for standalone or self-directed use. Warning sign sequences are individual — the map is built with a client, not for them.