Therapists & Counselors in Anchorage, AK

There are 2,190 licensed providers registered in Anchorage. The two most common licence types are mental health counselor (1,003) and clinical social worker (251).

With a population of 287,155, that works out to 76.3 providers per 10,000 residents. Density is a rough measure: providers register a practice address, which may be a clinic serving a much wider area than the city itself.

Density is the closest public proxy for how hard it will be to get an appointment, but it is only a proxy. It counts everyone with a registered address here, including people who have retired, moved or stopped taking new clients — nothing forces those records to be updated. Read it as an encouraging upper bound rather than a promise.

Anchorage is the 1st largest concentration in Alaska by number of providers, accounting for 32.8% of the state total.

The largest single group is mental health counselor, at 1,003 providers or 46% of the total. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training and scope, so the mix here partly reflects how Alaska licenses its providers.

The mix here is unusually concentrated: mental health counselor outnumber the next largest group by more than three to one. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training, so a lopsided mix usually says more about how Alaska licenses its providers than about what is available to you.

Registered addresses are spread across 12 ZIP codes. The map above sizes each ZIP by how many providers are registered there — clustering usually follows medical districts and commercial corridors rather than population.

These counts come from the federal NPI registry. A provider appears here if they hold an active NPI with a practice address in this area — it does not mean they are currently accepting new clients, and the registry does not record insurance, fees or availability.