Grief Counseling Intake Form

Supporting Your Journey Through Grief

Grief is a deeply personal experience, and finding the right support during this difficult time is crucial. Our Grief Counseling Intake Form is designed to help mental health professionals understand your unique situation, loss history, and current needs with sensitivity and care.

This comprehensive intake form gathers essential information about the nature of your loss, your emotional and physical well-being, existing coping mechanisms, and available support systems. By completing this form before your first counseling session, you allow your therapist to prepare thoughtfully and create a personalized treatment plan that honors your experience.

Who This Template Is For

This grief counseling intake form is ideal for:

• Mental health counselors and therapists specializing in bereavement and loss
• Grief support centers offering individual or group counseling services
• Hospice and palliative care programs providing bereavement follow-up
• Employee assistance programs (EAPs) supporting staff through difficult times
• Faith-based counseling services offering spiritual and emotional support
• Private practice therapists adding grief counseling to their services

Streamline Client Onboarding with Paperform

Paperform makes it easy to create compassionate, professional intake forms that respect the sensitive nature of grief counseling. With conditional logic, you can tailor questions based on the type of loss experienced, ensuring clients only answer relevant questions. The form can be completed at their own pace, from the comfort of home, before their first appointment.

Once submitted, responses can automatically flow into your practice management system, CRM, or Google Sheets through native integrations. Use Stepper (stepper.io) to automate follow-up workflows—send appointment confirmations, pre-session resources, or schedule check-in reminders without manual effort.

For practices requiring secure documentation, Papersign (papersign.com) can be used to collect electronic signatures on informed consent forms and HIPAA authorization documents, keeping everything connected to the original intake submission for a complete client record.

With Paperform's SOC 2 Type II compliance and secure data handling, you can trust that sensitive client information is protected throughout the intake process. The intuitive interface allows therapists to focus on what matters most—providing compassionate, effective support during one of life's most challenging experiences.