The question behind the waiting list
2,013,859 licensed therapy and rehabilitation providers hold an active federal registration in the United States. They are not spread evenly — some places have five times the providers per resident that others do.
This site counts them for every city and state, straight from the registry. Nobody pays to be listed, so a rural county is covered exactly as well as a metro area.
28,240 places are published so far. More are added as the index grows.
What "uneven" looks like
Every US town and city where the resident population is a fair yardstick for who is registered there, by mental health providers per 10,000 residents. Most sit near the median; the long tail on the right is small towns that happen to contain a clinic.
Is my area well served?
Every city page opens with providers per 10,000 residents, plotted against every other place in the state. That is the closest public proxy for how hard it will be to get an appointment.
What kind are they?
LCSW, LPC, LMFT, PsyD, DPT — the licence alphabet decides what someone is trained to do and whether they can prescribe. Each page breaks the local mix down and explains it in plain terms.
Who is actually there?
The full list for the place, filterable by licence type and searchable by name, with the registered practice address and phone number for each.
Psychologists, clinical social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists and psychiatrists registered with a practice address in this area.
1,566,061 registered across 56 states
Physical therapists and occupational therapists registered with a practice address in this area, including their board-recognised specialty areas.
446,677 registered across 56 states
Every registration carries the date it was issued, so the registry doubles as a record of when the profession grew. This is the mental health side — the shape says something about how long a wait you should expect a few years from now, which no directory of current listings can tell you.
77.9% of registered mental health providers are women — but the figure is not uniform. It runs from occupational therapy at one end to psychiatry at the other, and since psychiatrists are the ones who prescribe, that gradient has a practical edge for anyone who has a preference and also needs medication.
Share of registrations recorded as female; the line marks 50%. Gender is self-reported to CMS. We show it because "a female therapist" is one of the most common things people search for, and for some kinds of work it is a real need rather than a preference — but it is a filter on this site, never a ranking.
It can tell you
It cannot tell you
The method, including where it is imperfect, is written out in full on how it works.
This site is a directory and cannot respond to emergencies. These can: