Therapists & Counselors in Ackerman, MS

There are 11 licensed providers registered in Ackerman. The two most common licence types are mental health counselor (8) and professional counselor (1).

Among the 134 places in Mississippi big enough for the comparison to hold — at least a thousand residents, and a resident population that matches who is registered there — Ackerman ranks 12th 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.

Ackerman is the 79th largest concentration in Mississippi by number of providers, accounting for 0.1% of the state total.

The largest single group is mental health counselor, at 8 providers or 73% of the total. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training and scope, so the mix here partly reflects how Mississippi 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 Mississippi licenses its providers than about what is available to you.

11 is a small enough number that availability, not choice, will decide how quickly you are seen. Licences are issued at state level, so the practical pool is usually wider than this page shows: 8,383 licensed providers are registered across Mississippi, and many practices now offer appointments by video. The towns listed further down are the next places to look.

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.