Therapists & Counselors in Long Beach, CA

There are 4,184 licensed providers registered in Long Beach. The two most common licence types are marriage & family therapist (1,150) and clinical social worker (947).

Among the 423 places in California big enough for the comparison to hold — at least a thousand residents, and a resident population that matches who is registered there — Long Beach ranks 83rd by providers per resident.

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.

Long Beach is the 8th largest concentration in California by number of providers, accounting for 1.6% of the state total.

The largest single group is marriage & family therapist, at 1,150 providers or 27% of the total. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training and scope, so the mix here partly reflects how California licenses its providers.

The largest single group, marriage & family therapist, accounts for 29% of licensed providers registered here, so no one licence defines what is available. Training route and areas of focus vary more within a licence type than between them.

Registered addresses are spread across 17 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.