Free Counseling Progress Note Template & AI Progress Note Maker

A Counseling Progress Note is a dated record one practitioner writes after a therapy session, documenting client info, safety assessment, mental status, and subjective notes. It's used to log observed risk factors, behavioral and cognitive states, and clinical responses by therapists, counselors, mental health clinicians, and social workers, built with Template.net's AI-powered progress note builder.

Customize a Free Template
Start with this free editable and printable Counseling Progress Note template and personalize it for risk assessments, mental status exams, or documentation of subjective clinician observations. (or )
Generate an On-Brand Counseling Progress Note with AI
Describe the session you just completed or upload your care plan or session notes, and AI will build the actual editable note with drafted wording for safety assessment details and clinician responses, ready to review and sign.
Edit in the HTML5 Editor
Adjust client identification and session timing, update safety assessment and mental status exam checklists, edit the subjective content narrative, and finalize the clinician signature, plus the start time and end time in our drag-and-drop HTML5 editor.
Download a Printable PDF
Download the completed note as a printable PDF to file in the client record, hand over at session end, or keep on file for documentation.

Document these observations the way each one is normally recorded — client denial of harmful thoughts (yes/no with a follow-up detail line), identified danger target (choice among self or others), evidence of suicidal intent or plan (multiple-choice ticked from options), clinician response to safety concerns (narrative sentence in a free-text box), appearance observation (ticked from a set of descriptive options), speech pattern observation (ticked from a set of descriptive options), observed affect (ticked from a defined list of affect states), insight level (ticked rating scale from excellent to poor), judgement level (ticked rating scale from excellent to poor), mood description (ticked selection from emotional state options), thought content type (ticked selection from symptom categories), behavior type (ticked selection from behavioral observations), thought process type (ticked selection from cognitive process descriptors), subjective clinical observations and body language (narrative paragraph in a large free-text box), clinician's signature and date (signed and dated signature line entry).