Therapists & Counselors in Hickory, NC

There are 473 licensed providers registered in Hickory. The two most common licence types are clinical social worker (118) and mental health counselor (93).

That is roughly 14.2 providers per square mile of land area, or 102.9 per 10,000 residents.

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.

Hickory is the 15th largest concentration in North Carolina by number of providers, accounting for 1% of the state total.

The largest single group is clinical social worker, at 118 providers or 25% of the total. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training and scope, so the mix here partly reflects how North Carolina licenses its providers.

10 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.

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.