Therapists & Counselors in Wilmington, NC

Wilmington has 1,808 licensed providers with a registered practice address, across 10 licence types.

With a population of 126,809, that works out to 142.6 providers per 10,000 residents. Density is a rough measure: providers register a practice address, which may be a clinic serving a much wider area than the city itself.

A figure well above the median usually means more choice and shorter waits than most of North Carolina — though supply is not the same as availability. Plenty of providers in a well-served area are full, out of network, or private-pay only.

Of the 510 places in North Carolina with at least one registered provider, Wilmington ranks 7th by count.

By licence type the breakdown is clinical social worker (752), mental health counselor (313), professional counselor (181), addiction (substance use disorder) counselor (103), with 6 further types making up the remainder.

The largest single group, clinical social worker, accounts for 43% 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 6 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.

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.