Licensed Psychiatric Technician
2,381 active US providers register Licensed Psychiatric Technician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.03% of every provider in the registry, and the 271st largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 167G00000X
- Grouping
- Nursing Service Providers
- Classification
- Licensed Psychiatric Technician
- Active providers
- 2,381
- States covered
- 23 of 51
What the code means
An individual licensed by the state board as a Psychiatric Technician based upon completion of a prescribed course of theory and clinical practice, with two thirds of the clinical practice time focused on mental and developmental disorders. The psychiatric technician practices under the direct supervision of a physician, psychologist, registered nurse or other professional to provide care to patients with mental disorders and developmental disabilities.
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 | 2,322 | |
| Washington | 10 | |
| Texas | 7 | |
| Arkansas | 5 | |
| Utah | 5 | |
| Oregon | 4 | |
| Ohio | 3 | |
| Pennsylvania | 3 | |
| Florida | 2 | |
| Colorado | 2 | |
| Hawaii | 2 | |
| New York | 2 | |
| Missouri | 2 | |
| Nevada | 2 | |
| Maryland | 2 |
Showing the 15 largest of 23 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
Almost all of these are individual clinicians: 2,376 people against 5 organisations. Half of them had registered by 2017, and 743 registered in the last five years, 31% 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.
- STOCKTON, CA200
- LOS ANGELES, CA143
- SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA137
- FRESNO, CA80
- COLTON, CA79
- SACRAMENTO, CA70
- ORANGE, CA51
- POMONA, CA48
- SAN JOSE, CA46
- SAN BERNARDINO, CA45
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Licensed Psychiatric Technician 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 | 37 | 1.6% |
| Rehabilitation Practitioner | 18 | 0.8% |
| Case Manager/Care Coordinator | 18 | 0.8% |
| Licensed Vocational Nurse | 12 | 0.5% |
| Behavior Technician | 11 | 0.5% |
| Technician | 8 | 0.3% |
| Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor | 8 | 0.3% |
| Day Training/Habilitation Specialist | 7 | 0.3% |
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.