Mental Health Counselor Reference Check Form

Hiring the right mental health counselor is critical for any clinic, practice, or healthcare organization. This Mental Health Counselor Reference Check Form helps you gather detailed, structured feedback from professional references to ensure candidates have the therapeutic competencies, crisis management skills, and ethical grounding your team needs.

Built specifically for mental health clinics, behavioral health centers, private practices, and community mental health organizations, this template goes beyond basic employment verification. It systematically evaluates a candidate's therapeutic approach, crisis intervention capabilities, clinical documentation quality, collaboration skills, and supervision requirements—all essential factors in delivering safe, effective care.

Use this form to collect insights on counseling modalities, client rapport, adherence to ethical standards, ability to handle high-stress situations, and how well the candidate integrates feedback. References can provide candid assessments of strengths, areas for growth, and overall suitability for clinical roles, helping you make confident, evidence-based hiring decisions.

Paperform makes it easy to customize this template to match your clinic's specific requirements—whether you're hiring LPCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, or other licensed professionals. Add conditional logic to tailor questions based on the reference's relationship to the candidate, embed the form on your careers page, or share it via email during the interview process.

Once a reference is submitted, use Stepper (stepper.io) to automatically notify your hiring team, log responses in your HR system or ATS, and trigger follow-up tasks like scheduling interviews or conducting credential verifications. This ensures nothing falls through the cracks during your recruitment workflow.

With Paperform's secure, GDPR-compliant platform, you can confidently collect sensitive reference information while maintaining a professional, streamlined hiring process. Trusted by healthcare providers and HR teams worldwide, this template helps you build a compassionate, competent counseling team.