Registry data as of Aug 27, 2026

Doctors and health care providers in El Cajon, CA

3,277 individual NPPES records list a El Cajon practice address, 72nd of 812 California cities. The largest group is behavior technician: 542, 17% of the city's records, against 18% across California.

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Compiled from official public sources by the editorial process.

The 8 largest groups in El Cajon

  1. Behavior Technician542
  2. Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor449
  3. Mental Health Counselor201
  4. Marriage & Family Therapist156
  5. Pharmacist131
  6. Counselor125
  7. Students in training115
  8. Clinical Social Worker101

Source: CMS NPPES primary taxonomy, loaded Aug 27, 2026.

El Cajon in California

  • Rank in California72nd of 812 cities by records
  • Share of the state0.3% of California's records
  • Specialties present25 or more taxonomy codes
  • Top three groups36.4% of all records
  • Behavior Technician rank11th of the 10 California cities with the most

Compared with California as a whole, El Cajon has 4.6× the state's share of addiction (substance use disorder) counselor records and 0.38× its share of internal medicine physician records.

Providers in El Cajon, alphabetically

  1. Dalal Aago, MDGeneral Practice Physician1639863103
  2. Autumn AbaburkoPediatric Occupational Therapist1881529394
  3. Victor AbadAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor1205562238
  4. Haley Abbott, LVNLicensed Vocational Nurse1083247035
  5. Nora AbbouStudent in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program1255748869
  6. Enas Abd Wahab, RPHPharmacist1619719556
  7. Hiam AbdulahadSocial Worker1497260939
  8. Samy AbdulahadInterpreter1881186146
  9. Fatimah AbdullahCase Manager/Care Coordinator1629324587
  10. Mina Abdullah, DDSDentist1710393327
  11. Zamzam AbdullahBehavior Technician1457274540
  12. Mansour Abdur-RahimCounselor1104165638
  13. Veronica AbeldanoRehabilitation Practitioner1093579724
  14. Therese Abely, DMDPediatric Dentistry1467208686
  15. Reina Abeyta, MSN, FNP-BCFamily Nurse Practitioner1922235662
  16. Nadere Abhari, D.D.SDentist1386882827
  17. Gayle Francesca AbrahamAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor1376008060
  18. Regina AbrahamRegistered Nurse1740502129
  19. Daniel AbroPharmacist1952868994
  20. Raniah AbualjisStudent in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program1700560901
  21. Razan Abuateeq, BCBABehavior Analyst1780178939
  22. Soad AbuhaniRehabilitation Practitioner1336653211
  23. Zen AbujenBehavior Analyst1649151150
  24. Donovan Ackley, PH.D. RADT-1Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor1154870442
  25. Roderick AcosidoLicensed Vocational Nurse1053268755
  26. Kayla AcostaBehavior Technician1720941024
  27. Lindsay Acosta, SUDCCMental Health Counselor1861217986
  28. Elyse AdairBehavior Technician1538938907
  29. Malik AdamAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor1366186041
  30. Andrew Adamian, PT, DPT, MBAOrthopedic Physical Therapist1497122873
  31. Vincent Adamo, D.C.Chiropractor1841360245
  32. Araceli AdamsMental Health Counselor1285153213
  33. Hollis AdamsMarriage & Family Therapist1922525112
  34. Nigel AdamsAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor1386224160
  35. Titilola Adanritaylor, RNMental Health Counselor1215178702
  36. Gracielle Mae Advincula, NPFamily Nurse Practitioner1376208975
  37. Eddie AgostoSocial Worker1922652452
  38. Christopher AgraPhysical Therapy Assistant1487532271
  39. Amethyst Aguero, DOInternal Medicine Physician1568021913
  40. Armando AguilarAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor1144033879
  41. Grecia AguilarBehavior Technician1639754625
  42. Janice AguilarLicensed Practical Nurse1598547762
  43. Sherlita AguilarFamily Nurse Practitioner1205522083
  44. Alexandra AguirreSpeech-Language Pathologist1932585833
  45. Madeline Aguirre, MA, BCBABehavior Analyst1639612955
  46. Olivia Aguirre, MFTMarriage & Family Therapist1225176068
  47. Christine AhaiweBehavior Technician1932609393
  48. Katherine Ahearn-Edwards, LCSWClinical Social Worker1205032067
  49. Karozh Ahmed, MSW INTERNSchool Social Worker1326441189
  50. Zaman AhmedBehavior Technician1154143493

The largest California cities

  1. Los Angeles69,537
  2. San Diego52,937
  3. San Francisco38,143
  4. Sacramento33,083
  5. San Jose20,925

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How to read this directory

El Cajon, California appears in the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System with 3,277 registered healthcare providers spanning 25 or more distinct NUCC-taxonomy specialties. This count includes every individual clinician who has applied for an NPI and listed a practice address in El Cajon - physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, chiropractors, physical therapists, optometrists, psychologists, podiatrists, and every other credentialed provider type CMS tracks. It does not measure hospital beds, urgent-care capacity, or whether a given clinic is accepting new patients; it measures the pool of professionals with current NPI enrollment and a El Cajon practice location on file. Every figure is drawn from the federal National Provider Identifier Registry (CMS NPPES) - more than 7 million providers, maintained since May 2007, with 2024 Medicare Part D data, and, according to CMS, can be searched, compared, and traced in our methodology.

The provider mix in El Cajon is weighted toward Behavior Technician (542 clinicians, followed by Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor with 449 and Mental Health Counselor with 201). That distribution reflects how NPPES records specialty: providers self-select a primary taxonomy code, so a family physician who also practices geriatrics will show up under whichever NUCC code they registered first. Relative to California's population, El Cajon reports roughly 8.4 providers per 100,000 residents using the state-level denominator, which is a rough proxy rather than a precise access-to-care measurement; the true catchment area of any {cityName} clinician extends beyond the municipal boundary.

For El Cajon patients, this directory is most useful as a starting shortlist. Important: PlainDoctor is a directory of publicly available CMS government data, not a review site, a ranking, or medical advice. NPPES data is self-reported and refreshed monthly; call the practice directly to confirm the provider is still there, accepts your insurance, and is taking new patients.

For informational purposes only; this directory is not medical advice and not a substitute for checking a license. See also: how to find a doctor and how to verify one.

Common questions

How many doctors are in El Cajon, CA?

There are 3,277 registered healthcare providers in El Cajon, CA, covering 25 or more specialties. This includes physicians, dentists, therapists, and other licensed providers.

What are the most common medical specialties in El Cajon?

The most common specialties in El Cajon are Behavior Technician, Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor, Mental Health Counselor, Marriage & Family Therapist, Pharmacist. Behavior Technician has the most providers with 542.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file loaded Aug 27, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov). Records are self-reported registrations, not licenses.

Every figure on PlainDoctor is rendered directly from the federal CMS NPPES registry, Medicare Part D, MIPS, and Open Payments records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 27, 2026.