Clinical Psychologist vs Cognitive & Behavioral Psychologist

Clinical Psychologist has 37.2 times as many registry records as Cognitive & Behavioral Psychologist: 69,391 against 1,863. Each count is the NPPES records whose primary taxonomy is the specialty, so it measures how providers describe their main practice, not everyone trained in it.

CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census population estimates · method

Clinical Psychologist: 69,391 records in 56 states

California12,647
New York6,558
Illinois3,947
Massachusetts3,185
Florida2,980

Clinical Psychologist nationwide →

Cognitive & Behavioral Psychologist: 1,863 records in 52 states

California239
New York224
Florida138
Michigan117
Massachusetts99

Cognitive & Behavioral Psychologist nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Clinical Psychologist	Cognitive & Behavioral Psychologist	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	12,647	239	32.5	0.6
New York	6,558	224	33.5	1.1
Illinois	3,947	46	31.5	0.4
Massachusetts	3,185	99	45.5	1.4
Florida	2,980	138	13.2	0.6
Michigan	2,965	117	29.5	1.2
Texas	2,732	52	9.0	0.2
Pennsylvania	2,597	99	20.0	0.8
Virginia	2,329	17	26.9	0.2
North Carolina	1,712	42	15.8	0.4
Washington	1,675	44	21.4	0.6
Colorado	1,652	26	28.1	0.4
Ohio	1,581	31	13.4	0.3
Minnesota	1,538	45	26.8	0.8
New Jersey	1,513	63	16.3	0.7
Maryland	1,499	54	24.3	0.9
Georgia	1,169	28	10.6	0.3
Oregon	1,143	35	27.0	0.8
Connecticut	1,114	29	30.8	0.8
Missouri	911	51	14.7	0.8
Arizona	841	28	11.3	0.4
Indiana	838	21	12.2	0.3
Tennessee	795	18	11.2	0.3
Wisconsin	728	19	12.3	0.3
Kentucky	714	17	15.8	0.4
Hawaii	640	10	44.6	0.7
Kansas	549	61	18.7	2.1
District of Columbia	564	11	83.1	1.6
Rhode Island	510	6	46.5	0.5
South Carolina	446	13	8.3	0.2
Utah	437	10	12.8	0.3
Alabama	400	6	7.8	0.1
Louisiana	373	7	8.2	0.2
Nevada	346	33	10.8	1.0
New Mexico	366	7	17.3	0.3
Vermont	311	8	48.0	1.2
New Hampshire	292	9	20.8	0.6
Maine	295	3	21.1	0.2
Arkansas	278	8	9.1	0.3
Oklahoma	248	21	6.1	0.5
West Virginia	251	4	14.2	0.2
Nebraska	232	15	11.7	0.8
Iowa	212	8	6.6	0.2
Idaho	195	3	9.9	0.2
Delaware	168	6	16.3	0.6
Mississippi	165	8	5.6	0.3
Montana	171	0	15.1	0.0
Alaska	129	4	17.6	0.5
North Dakota	118	1	15.1	0.1
South Dakota	103	3	11.2	0.3
Wyoming	100	1	17.1	0.2

Source: CMS NPPES (NPPES files on CMS.gov), primary NUCC taxonomy by practice state; 2023 population estimates (census.gov).

Common questions

How many Clinical Psychologist providers are there vs Cognitive & Behavioral Psychologist?

There are 69,391 Clinical Psychologist and 1,863 Cognitive & Behavioral Psychologist records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Clinical Psychologist has records in 56 states and territories, against 52.

Where is the data from?

Provider counts are from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Per-capita rates use 2023 Census population estimates.

Two specialties are not substitutes: scope of practice, training and the conditions treated differ. More comparisons →

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

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 the NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026.