Therapists & Counselors in Maryland
Psychologists, clinical social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists and psychiatrists registered with a practice address in this area.
How density varies inside Maryland
Each bar is the number of places at that level of provider density. A long right tail means a few places carry far more providers per resident than the rest of the state.
Maryland has 32,134 licensed providers with a registered practice address, across 12 licence types.
Maryland ranks 16th of 56 states and territories by the number of registered providers in this field.
By licence type the breakdown is clinical social worker (9,020), mental health counselor (4,281), social worker (4,127), professional counselor (4,094), with 8 further types making up the remainder.
12 distinct licence types are registered here. The letters after a provider's name describe their training route rather than a ranking, and several of them do substantially overlapping work.
The three largest concentrations are Baltimore (8,096), Rockville (2,047), Bethesda (1,777).
One caveat on reading these numbers: the registry records where a provider registered an address, not where they see clients day to day, and addresses are not always kept current. It also says nothing about whether someone is taking new clients.
How Maryland got here
new registrations per yearEach registration carries the year it was issued, so the registry doubles as a record of when this workforce grew in Maryland. A rising line means the constraint is easing; a flat one means today's shortage is likely to be next year's too.
Who they are
self-reported to CMS80.6% of registered licensed providers in Maryland are women. Nationally the figure varies a great deal by licence type — occupational therapy at one end, psychiatry at the other. See the national breakdown.
You can filter any city list on this site by gender. We show it because it is one of the most common things people search for and, for some kinds of work, a real need — but it is only ever a filter here, never a ranking.
Where they are registered
circle size = providers in that ZIP codeBy licence type
Places in Maryland
286 of 286 have their own page so far17 places have no per-resident figure. Those are office districts inside a larger urban area, rural towns whose practices serve a whole region, or places where most registrations share one employer's address — dividing by the resident population there produces a number that looks precise and describes nothing. The provider counts are unaffected; the test is described in the methodology.