Clinician type
Professional Counselors
At a glance
- Practicing in the U.S.
- 142,616
- Per 100,000 residents
- 42.2
- Women
- 81%
- Median years since graduating
- 12
Who they are
- Women 81%
- Graduated 35 or more years ago 4%
- Offer telehealth 23%
- Accept Medicare’s approved amount 74%
Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.
Where they practice
What they do most for Medicare patients
- Psychotherapy, 1 hour 6,486
- Psychotherapy, 45 minutes 4,351
- Psychotherapy, 30 minutes 1,921
- Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation 383
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 380
- Psychiatric services complicated by communication factor 311
- Telehealth originating site facility fee 112
- Assessment of health behavior 95
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes 30
- Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 25 minutes 28
- Group psychotherapy 28
- Respiratory infectious agent detection by rna for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (covid 19), influenza a, influenza b, and respiratory syncytial virus, upper respiratory specimen, each reported as detected or not detected 18
Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.
What they prescribe most
- Clonazepam (Klonopin) 6.8%
- Quetiapine Fumarate (Seroquel, Seroquel Xr) 5.5%
- Venlafaxine Hcl (Effexor Xr) 4.8%
- Risperidone (Risperdal, Perseris, Uzedy) 4.2%
- Clozapine (Clozaril, Versacloz) 3.6%
- Aripiprazole (Abilify Asimtufii, Abilify Maintena, Abilify) 3.6%
- Sertraline Hcl (Zoloft) 3.5%
- Zolpidem Tartrate (Ambien, Ambien Cr, Edluar) 3.1%
- Lorazepam (Ativan, Loreev Xr) 2.9%
- Alprazolam (Xanax, Xanax Xr) 2.8%
- Fluoxetine Hcl (Fluoxetine Dr, Prozac) 2.7%
- Lamotrigine (Lamictal, Lamictal Odt, Lamictal Xr) 2.6%
- Buspirone Hcl 2.6%
- Doxepin Hcl (Silenor) 2.6%
- Gabapentin (Gralise, Neurontin) 2.5%
Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.
Hospitals where the most work
- Cherokee Nation W W Hastings Indian Hospital Tahlequah, OK 9 Professional Counselors at Cherokee Nation W W Hastings Indian Hospital
- University of Missouri Health Care Columbia, MO 9 Professional Counselors at University of Missouri Health Care
- Saint Francis Medical Center Peoria, IL 9 Professional Counselors at Saint Francis Medical Center
- Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH 7 Professional Counselors at Cleveland Clinic
- Ssm Health St Agnes Hospital-Fond Du Lac Fond Du Lac, WI 6 Professional Counselors at Ssm Health St Agnes Hospital-Fond Du Lac
- Medical College of Virginia Hospitals Richmond, VA 6 Professional Counselors at Medical College of Virginia Hospitals
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Round Rock Round Rock, TX 5 Professional Counselors at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Round Rock
- Poudre Valley Hospital Fort Collins, CO 5 Professional Counselors at Poudre Valley Hospital
- Cgh Medical Center Sterling, IL 4 Professional Counselors at Cgh Medical Center
- Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center La Crosse, WI 4 Professional Counselors at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center
Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.
Schools they graduated from most
- Liberty Univ College of Osteopathic Medicine 32
- Texas A & M University System, Hsc, College of Medicine 30
- Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine 17
- Central Michigan College of Medicine 16
- Wayne State University School of Medicine 16
- Marymount University 14
- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine 14
- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine 13
- Eastern Virginia Medical School 12
- University of South Carolina School of Medicine 12
From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).
Industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $1,296 in general payments to 13 clinicians in Professional Counselors in 2025. See who received the most
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2025. A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Sources: CMS NPPES (counts, sex, credentials), Medicare Care Compare (schools, graduation years, hospitals, telehealth), CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners (2023) and Part D Prescribers (2024), CMS Open Payments (2025), ACGME program requirements (training length), OpenAlex (research), U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024 (population).