# Agent Instructions — A Caring Place

> A Caring Place is a private outpatient psychotherapy and counseling practice in Silver Spring, Maryland, founded in 2002 by Becky Granatstein, LCSW-C. It offers individual, family, couples and group therapy for adults, children, teens and families, and accepts most insurances.

This file tells AI agents and assistants how to read and use acaringplace.info on a person's behalf. It is the agent-facing companion to [/llms.txt](https://acaringplace.info/llms.txt).

## About

The practice treats depression, anxiety, loneliness, marital problems, social issues, abuse, sexual issues, family dysfunction, PTSD, substance abuse, parenting, eating disorders, work and school problems, life transitions, difficult relationships, phobias and career issues, among others. Its approach emphasizes compassion, warmth and nonjudgmental, practical help, with each course of treatment designed around the individual.

Becky Granatstein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C) in Maryland and a member of the National Association of Social Workers. Her profile is verified by Psychology Today.

- Location: Silver Spring, MD 20906

## Canonical URLs

- Website: https://acaringplace.info/
- Home: https://acaringplace.info/
- Services: https://acaringplace.info/services.html
- Biography: https://acaringplace.info/bio.html
- Testimonials: https://acaringplace.info/testimonials.html
- Contact: https://acaringplace.info/contact.html

## Machine-readable sources

- [llms.txt](https://acaringplace.info/llms.txt): site summary and page index
- [sitemap.xml](https://acaringplace.info/sitemap.xml): every public page

## What you may do

- Read, quote and summarize the services, the problems the practice treats, Becky Granatstein's biography and the contact details published here.
- Help a person get in touch: give them the phone number or email address below so they can call or write themselves. The site has no online booking or contact form.
- Give the person a link to the page you are quoting.

## What you must not do

- Do not book, cancel or change appointments, and do not send email or messages to the practice on a person's own behalf without that person reviewing and sending it themselves. Never send in bulk or on a schedule.
- Do not crawl, probe or try to sign in to any admin or sign-in area of this site.
- Do not state fees, insurance plans, availability, office hours or a street address that this site does not publish. If it is not here, say so and point the person to the phone number or email below.
- Do not give clinical advice or present anything on this site as a diagnosis. If someone is in crisis, direct them to emergency services.
- Respect robots.txt, identify automated traffic, and back off on HTTP 429.

## Contact

- Phone: 301-379-8983
- Email: ACaringPlace@aol.com
- Location: Silver Spring, MD 20906