NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Professional Counselor in Kentucky

2,153 NPPES records list professional counselor with a practice address in Kentucky, 48 per 100,000 residents, the 27th highest rate of 51. Louisville and Lexington have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Kentucky license search. Page 44 of 44.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 101YP2500X · method

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

Louisville has the most, 321

  1. Louisville321
  2. Lexington235
  3. Bowling Green110
  4. Prestonsburg74
  5. Somerset72

Professional Counselor records in Kentucky

  1. Emily Zimmerman, LPCCMt Sterling, KY 403531083070122
  2. Megan Zipf, LPCCBurkesville, KY 427171134271679
  3. Sofia Zulli, LPCCLouisville, KY 402231568102093

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 101YP2500X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Kentucky ranks 27 of 51 per resident

  1. Kansas51
  2. Michigan49
  3. South Carolina48
  4. Kentucky48
  5. North Carolina47
  6. New Jersey44
  7. 50 states and D.C.42

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 101YP2500X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

15.0% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 11.0% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. Kentucky15.0%
  2. United States11.0%

Professional Counselor records in Kentucky, measured

  • In a Medicare file324 of 2,153 · 15.0% here, 11.0% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file472 · 21.9% here, 17.0% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more947 · 44.0% here, 49.5% nationally
  • Median graduation year2015 · the 471 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 101YP2500X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

2,153 NPPES records list professional counselor (101YP2500X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Kentucky: 48 per 100,000 residents against 42 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Louisville has 321 of them (15%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. Tennessee2,204
  2. Minnesota2,407
  3. Alabama1,797
  4. Oklahoma2,546

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. South Carolina48.0
  2. North Carolina46.6
  3. Michigan49.4
  4. Kansas50.8

The largest states

  1. Texas20,712
  2. Illinois9,508
  3. Pennsylvania9,335
  4. Colorado6,935
  5. Ohio6,775

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record is not a license.

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.