NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Doctors and health care providers in Essex, VT

14 individual NPPES records list a practice address in Essex, 78th of 102 Vermont cities. The largest group is clinical social worker: 4, 29% of the city's records, against 9% across Vermont.

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Essex in Vermont

  • Rank in Vermont78th of 102 cities by records
  • Share of the state<0.1% of Vermont's records
  • Specialties present10 taxonomy codes
  • Top three groups50% of all records
  • Clinical Social Worker rank11th of the 10 Vermont cities with the most

Providers in Essex, alphabetically

  1. Claire Bates, LICSWClinical Social Worker1144020736
  2. Matthew CrossAudiologist1548677149
  3. Danielle CummingsCounselor1831052828
  4. Paul Davis, LCMHCMental Health Counselor1952566382
  5. Holly Donovan, LCSWClinical Social Worker1629331665
  6. Jocelyn Hecht Smith, DIABETES EDUCATORDiabetes Educator Registered Nurse1003432840
  7. Paul Hillen, LICSWClinical Social Worker1922791581
  8. Donna Lemay, LICSWClinical Social Worker1487728846
  9. David PolsonStudent in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program1114409000
  10. Ronald Smith, PSY.D.Psychologist1043494669
  11. Karla Viteri Blackwell, MS, NCCMental Health Counselor1619829793
  12. Christopher West, MAMarriage & Family Therapist1659234672
  13. Nicole Wienclaw, APRNFamily Nurse Practitioner1679230742
  14. Chris YooPharmacist1912871625

How to read this directory

Essex, Vermont appears in the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System with 14 registered healthcare providers spanning 10 distinct NUCC-taxonomy specialties. This count includes every individual clinician who has applied for an NPI and listed a practice address in Essex - 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 Essex 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 Essex is weighted toward Clinical Social Worker (4 clinicians, followed by Mental Health Counselor with 2 and Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program with 1). 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 Vermont's population, Essex reports roughly 2.2 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.

Of Vermont's most common specialties, Physical Therapist is the most prominent one with no provider currently listing a Essex practice address, a coverage gap Essex patients typically fill by traveling to a larger nearby hub.

For Essex 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 Essex, VT?

There are 14 registered healthcare providers in Essex, VT, covering 10 specialties. This includes physicians, dentists, therapists, and other licensed providers.

What are the most common medical specialties in Essex?

The most common specialties in Essex are Clinical Social Worker, Mental Health Counselor, Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program, Family Nurse Practitioner, Audiologist. Clinical Social Worker has the most providers with 4.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov). Records are self-reported registrations, not licenses.

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.