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Clinical Neuropsychologist

Clinical Neuropsychologist · taxonomy 103G00000X

5,537
Registered nationally
0.27%
Share of this field
53
States with providers

What this licence covers

Clinical neuropsychologists are psychologists with additional training in how brain conditions affect thinking and behaviour. Their work is weighted toward assessment — memory, attention and executive function testing after a head injury, stroke or suspected dementia — more than ongoing talk therapy.

The formal definition

A clinical psychologist who applies principles of assessment and intervention based upon the scientific study of human behavior as it relates to normal and abnormal functioning of the central nervous system. The specialty is dedicated to enhancing the understanding of brain-behavior relationships and the application of such knowledge to human problems.

Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set. This is the definition used for billing and registration, which is why it reads the way it does.

Many also hold another licence

different training route, same person

These are registrations where the same person also holds a licence of a genuinely different kind — not the same qualification recorded twice. It is worth knowing because it widens what someone can work with: a counsellor who is also a social worker brings a different second toolkit than one who is also a behaviour analyst.

Psychologist
6,538
118.1%
Counselor
176
3.2%
Behavior Analyst
31
0.6%
Marriage & Family Therapist
27
0.5%
Psychiatry & Neurology
16
0.3%
Social Worker
14
0.3%

Counted from every taxonomy code on a registration, not just the primary one. A provider can appear under more than one row.

By state

747
13.5%
426
7.7%
389
7.0%
373
6.7%
342
6.2%
249
4.5%
235
4.2%
156
2.8%
156
2.8%
153
2.8%
146
2.6%
137
2.5%
135
2.4%
134
2.4%
123
2.2%
120
2.2%
111
2.0%
110
2.0%
105
1.9%
101
1.8%
82
1.5%
72
1.3%
65
1.2%
61
1.1%
51
0.9%