Mental Health Counselor

Compiled from official public sources by the editorial process.

NUCC 101YM0800X · Counselor

293,893 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 55 states · 3rd of 690 specialties by headcount.

293,893

Providers

CMS NPPES-registered

States

with ≥1 NPI

California

Top state

36,093 providers

$2K

Open Pay avg

216th of 552 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Mental Health Counselor ranks 3rd of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (4.15% of all registered NPIs), densest in California; per resident Oregon leads.

293,893
NPPES providers in specialty: 3rd
of 690 specialties: 459
state-share HHI: 0.1%
Part D prescriber share

Oregon is densest per capita (4.1× the national rate; Alaska 3.4×); 45% of the Counselor category.

Taxonomy fingerprint

Mental Health Counselor (NUCC 101YM0800X; 0.1% Part D prescribers (387 of 293,893); avg 1,063 Part D claims/prescriber (127th of 567); Open Payments avg $2K/physician (216th of 552; 248 paid, $387K total); state-share HHI 459; next-larger headcount neighbor Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program (+37,381); next-smaller Pharmacist (-2,850)).

Next larger: Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program (331,274) Next smaller: Pharmacist (291,043)

Population-adjusted state index

Each multiple is this specialty's providers-per-resident in a state divided by the national rate (Census Vintage population estimates). Raw headcount favors large states; this ranking surfaces denser markets.

Over-indexed vs national rate

Oregon 4.1× · 352.9/100k
Alaska 3.4× · 293.4/100k
Massachusetts 2.9× · 253/100k
Washington 2.5× · 219.2/100k
Vermont 2.5× · 217.8/100k

Under-indexed vs national rate

Puerto Rico 0.05× · 4.7/100k
Guam 0.07× · 5.9/100k
Virgin Islands 0.17× · 14.9/100k
Kansas 0.29× · 25.2/100k
Texas 0.37× · 32.2/100k

Which states have the most providers?

#	State	Providers	% of specialty
1	California	36,093	12.3%
2	Florida	21,925	7.5%
3	New York	18,946	6.4%
4	Massachusetts	17,712	6.0%
5	Washington	17,126	5.8%
6	Oregon	14,941	5.1%
7	Illinois	10,570	3.6%
8	Pennsylvania	10,064	3.4%
9	New Jersey	9,910	3.4%
10	Texas	9,818	3.3%
11	Colorado	8,957	3.0%
12	Ohio	8,275	2.8%
13	North Carolina	8,010	2.7%
14	Louisiana	6,533	2.2%
15	Oklahoma	6,431	2.2%

Top Cities for Mental Health Counselor

#	City	Providers
1	WestamptonNew Jersey	4,266
2	PortlandOregon	3,690
3	New YorkNew York	3,584
4	SeattleWashington	2,940
5	BrooklynNew York	2,623
6	Los AngelesCalifornia	2,489
7	San DiegoCalifornia	2,247
8	ChicagoIllinois	2,084
9	OmahaNebraska	1,769
10	Oklahoma CityOklahoma	1,649
11	DenverColorado	1,638
12	EugeneOregon	1,563

Sample Mental Health Counselor NPIs

A directory sample from this NUCC code (not a ranking). Names and locations are unique to this taxonomy.

#	Provider	State
1	Pamela Douglas, MSN,APRN,BCRichmond, VA	Virginia
2	Karen Binder, LICSWStoneham, MA	Massachusetts
3	Michael Niehaus, LPCValley Park, MO	Missouri
4	Susan Chandler, LPCMHWilmington, DE	Delaware
5	Laura Lentz, MS LMHPOmaha, NE	Nebraska
6	Judith Brown, LMFTMooresville, IN	Indiana
7	Gregory Hobson, LMHCWabash, IN	Indiana
8	Suzanne Bonaventura-Krischke, MSWCrown Point, IN	Indiana
9	Laura Ladue, PT, DPT, LIMHPLincoln, NE	Nebraska
10	George Bates, MS, LCPCO Fallon, IL	Illinois
11	Mary Encinias, LMHCPensacola, FL	Florida
12	Melissa SchmittShakopee, MN	Minnesota
13	Phillip Librizzi, LMHCBloomington, IN	Indiana
14	Nestor Levesque, LMHCBradenton, FL	Florida
15	Angela Hatfield, LPCDayton, OH	Ohio
16	Sandra Moore, LPCHouston, TX	Texas
17	Lydia Gadd, LPCC SWestlake, OH	Ohio
18	Gwyndelyn Roberts, LMHP CMSWOmaha, NE	Nebraska

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many Mental Health Counselor providers are in the US?

There are 293,893 Mental Health Counselor providers registered in the CMS NPPES database across 55 US states and territories. California has the most with 36,093 providers. Leading metros include Westampton, NJ; Portland, OR; New York, NY; Seattle, WA. Among 690 NUCC specialties, this code ranks 3rd by headcount.

Do Mental Health Counselor clinicians appear in Open Payments?

CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 248 Mental Health Counselor physicians receiving industry payments totaling $387K (5,690 payments; average $2K per paid physician, 216th of 552 specialties by average). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.

How much Part D prescribing does this specialty do?

Among Mental Health Counselor NPIs, 387 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 1,063 claims and $138K drug cost per prescriber; 127th of 567 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.

Data sources and methodology

Provider data from CMS NPPES (download.cms.gov/nppes). Specialty classification from NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org). Part D averages from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; industry payments from CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts reflect self-designated primary taxonomy at NPI enrollment. PlainDoctor does not rate or rank providers. Methodology · About

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 2026-05-20.