NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Clinical Psychologist vs Counseling Psychologist

Clinical Psychologist has 8.6 times as many registry records as Counseling Psychologist: 69,391 against 8,042. 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

  1. California12,647
  2. New York6,558
  3. Illinois3,947
  4. Massachusetts3,185
  5. Florida2,980

Clinical Psychologist nationwide →

Counseling Psychologist: 8,042 records in 54 states

  1. Puerto Rico878
  2. California629
  3. Michigan579
  4. Texas527
  5. Minnesota390

Counseling Psychologist nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

StateClinical PsychologistCounseling PsychologistPer 100,000 (first)Per 100,000 (second)
California12,64762932.51.6
New York6,55838833.52.0
Illinois3,94711931.50.9
Michigan2,96557929.55.8
Massachusetts3,18533945.54.8
Florida2,98029513.21.3
Texas2,7325279.01.7
Pennsylvania2,59736820.02.8
Virginia2,3298226.90.9
Minnesota1,53839026.86.8
Colorado1,65225028.14.3
North Carolina1,71218915.81.7
Washington1,67517221.42.2
Ohio1,58120913.41.8
New Jersey1,51315516.31.7
Maryland1,49913624.32.2
Georgia1,16918510.61.7
Oregon1,14313027.03.1
Connecticut1,1144230.81.2
Missouri91112614.72.0
Arizona84113211.31.8
Indiana83813512.22.0
Tennessee79515611.22.2
Kentucky71410915.82.4
Wisconsin7289112.31.5
Kansas54917618.76.0
Hawaii6403944.62.7
District of Columbia5645983.18.7
Utah43710112.83.0
Rhode Island5102546.52.3
South Carolina446628.31.2
Alabama400577.81.1
Louisiana373698.21.5
New Mexico3666017.32.8
Nevada3462910.80.9
Oklahoma2481126.12.8
Vermont3114648.07.1
Arkansas278559.11.8
Maine2953321.12.4
New Hampshire2922420.81.7
West Virginia2513914.22.2
Iowa212656.62.0
Nebraska2322711.71.4
Idaho195299.91.5
Mississippi165355.61.2
Montana1711815.11.6
Delaware1681616.31.6
Alaska1291817.62.5
North Dakota1181615.12.0
Wyoming1001317.12.2
South Dakota103511.20.5

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 Counseling Psychologist?

There are 69,391 Clinical Psychologist and 8,042 Counseling 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 54.

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.