Therapists & Counselors in St. Pauls, NC

St. Pauls has 8 licensed providers with a registered practice address, across 4 licence types.

That is roughly 4.9 providers per square mile of land area, or 37.9 per 10,000 residents.

That puts St. Pauls close to the middle for North Carolina. Expect to contact several providers rather than one, and to find that availability rather than choice is the binding constraint.

Of the 510 places in North Carolina with at least one registered provider, St. Pauls ranks 287th by count.

By licence type the breakdown is clinical social worker (5), addiction (substance use disorder) counselor (1), mental health counselor (1), professional counselor (1), with 0 further types making up the remainder.

Just over half of the licensed providers here — 63% — hold the same licence, clinical social worker. Where one type dominates like this, the practical question is less which letters someone has than whether they work with what you are bringing to them.

8 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: 46,055 licensed providers are registered across North Carolina, and many practices now offer appointments by video. The towns listed further down are the next places to look.

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.