Counselor
111,640 active US providers register Counselor as their primary taxonomy. That is 1.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 21st largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 101Y00000X
- Grouping
- Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers
- Classification
- Counselor
- Active providers
- 111,640
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A provider who is trained and educated in the performance of behavior health services through interpersonal communications and analysis. Training and education at the specialty level usually requires a master's degree and clinical experience and supervision for licensure or certification.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| California | 13,948 | |
| Washington | 11,443 | |
| Massachusetts | 9,064 | |
| Oklahoma | 4,581 | |
| Oregon | 4,548 | |
| Ohio | 4,229 | |
| Pennsylvania | 4,114 | |
| New York | 4,015 | |
| Illinois | 4,010 | |
| Texas | 3,811 | |
| Florida | 3,535 | |
| Utah | 3,501 | |
| Michigan | 2,876 | |
| Colorado | 2,707 | |
| North Carolina | 2,100 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
106,253 of these are people and 5,387 are organisations, so 5% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2017, and 35,563 registered in the last five years, 32% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
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.
- SEATTLE, WA2,298
- PORTLAND, OR1,448
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA1,420
- SPRINGFIELD, MA1,386
- OKLAHOMA CITY, OK1,233
- TACOMA, WA1,104
- SPOKANE, WA986
- SALT LAKE CITY, UT925
- TULSA, OK893
- EVERETT, WA847
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Counselor 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 | 4,021 | 3.6% |
| Professional Counselor | 2,172 | 1.9% |
| Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor | 2,134 | 1.9% |
| Case Manager/Care Coordinator | 1,735 | 1.6% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 1,047 | 0.9% |
| Social Worker | 840 | 0.8% |
| Marriage & Family Therapist | 776 | 0.7% |
| Clinical Social Worker | 607 | 0.5% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Counselor.
- Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor99,864
- Professional Counselor159,334
- School Counselor5,765
- Pastoral Counselor2,410
- Mental Health Counselor323,332
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.