Art Therapist
1,877 active US providers register Art Therapist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 302nd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 221700000X
- Grouping
- Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers
- Classification
- Art Therapist
- Active providers
- 1,877
- States covered
- 48 of 51
What the code means
(1) An individual who uses art to achieve the therapeutic goals of symptom relief, emotional integration, and recovery from or adjustment to illness or disability. (2) An art therapist uses a form of treatment that enables patients with mental or physical disabilities to use art as a way of expressing and dealing with feelings and inner conflicts. (3) An individual who uses arts modalities and creative processes during intentional intervention in therapeutic, rehabilitative, community, or educational settings to foster health, communication, and expression; promote the integration of physical, emotional, cognitive, and social functioning; enhance self-awareness; and facilitate change.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 926 | |
| New Jersey | 109 | |
| Kentucky | 86 | |
| Florida | 84 | |
| Pennsylvania | 71 | |
| Maryland | 63 | |
| California | 54 | |
| Ohio | 39 | |
| Wisconsin | 35 | |
| Illinois | 35 | |
| Michigan | 34 | |
| Virginia | 31 | |
| Massachusetts | 29 | |
| Connecticut | 26 | |
| Oregon | 25 |
Showing the 15 largest of 48 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,778 of these are people and 99 are organisations, so 5% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2021, and 964 registered in the last five years, 51% of the current population.
That is a fast-growing code. A population where a large share registered recently is either a genuinely expanding field or a category NPPES added late, and the taxonomy definition above usually tells you which.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- BROOKLYN, NY223
- NEW YORK, NY182
- LOUISVILLE, KY59
- BRONX, NY36
- ROCHESTER, NY30
- PHILADELPHIA, PA24
- MIAMI, FL17
- PEARL RIVER, NY17
- PORTLAND, OR13
- EVANSTON, IL11
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Art Therapist most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Health Counselor | 114 | 6.1% |
| Professional Counselor | 57 | 3.0% |
| Counselor | 44 | 2.3% |
| Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor | 20 | 1.1% |
| Music Therapist | 19 | 1.0% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 10 | 0.5% |
| Marriage & Family Therapist | 9 | 0.5% |
| Clinical Social Worker | 8 | 0.4% |
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.