Therapists per 100,000: Brooklyn vs the Other Boroughs

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Key numbers

• 252.3licensed therapists per 100,000 Brooklyn residents, about one for every 396 peopleNYSED license statistics, July 1, 2026; Census Bureau population, 2025
• 554.7per 100,000 in Manhattan, the highest of New York's 62 counties and 2.2 times Brooklyn's rateNYSED license statistics, July 1, 2026
• 6,697licensed therapists list a Brooklyn mailing address: 3,927 clinical social workers, 1,410 mental health counselors, 1,237 psychologists and 123 marriage and family therapistsNYSED license statistics, July 1, 2026
• 1,410licensed mental health counselors in Brooklyn, more than in any other New York county (Nassau County is next with 1,108)NYSED license statistics, July 1, 2026
• 54%more new licenses issued in these four professions in 2025 (5,611) than in 2021 (3,653), statewideNYSED licenses issued, 2021 to 2025

Licensed therapists per 100,000 residents, by borough

Each bar counts licensed clinical social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists and psychologists with a mailing address in the borough, per 100,000 residents. New York City and New York State are shown in a lighter color for comparison.

• Manhattan554.7
• New York State285.9
• New York City264.0
• Brooklyn252.3
• Staten Island202.5
• Queens171.7
• Bronx118.5

Area	Residents (2025)	LCSW	LMHC	LMFT	Psychologists	Total	Per 100,000	Residents per therapist	Rank of 62 counties
Manhattan	1,664,862	4,792	1,075	191	3,177	9,235	554.7	180	1
Brooklyn	2,653,963	3,927	1,410	123	1,237	6,697	252.3	396	19
Staten Island	501,290	558	326	14	117	1,015	202.5	494	27
Queens	2,358,182	2,257	1,088	100	605	4,050	171.7	582	39
Bronx	1,406,332	1,069	349	48	200	1,666	118.5	844	58
New York City	8,584,629	12,603	4,248	476	5,336	22,663	264.0	379
New York State	20,002,427	31,553	12,574	1,518	11,551	57,196	285.9	350

Registered licensees by county of mailing address, as of July 1, 2026 (NYSED). Population: Census Bureau estimates for July 1, 2025. LCSW = licensed clinical social worker; LMHC = licensed mental health counselor; LMFT = licensed marriage and family therapist. Rank 1 = the most therapists per resident among New York's 62 counties. The state row uses NYSED's published state totals.

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Area	LMSW	LMSW per 100,000	Creative arts therapists	Per 100,000	Psychoanalysts	Per 100,000
Manhattan	3,582	215.2	280	16.8	402	24.1
Brooklyn	5,110	192.5	403	15.2	96	3.6
Staten Island	708	141.2	17	3.4	6	1.2
Queens	3,060	129.8	182	7.7	33	1.4
Bronx	2,038	144.9	33	2.3	6	0.4
New York City	14,498	168.9	915	10.7	543	6.3
New York State	33,114	165.5	1,978	9.9	686	3.4

LMSW = licensed master social worker. In New York, master social workers provide clinical services only under supervision, so we list them here rather than in the main count. Creative arts therapists and psychoanalysts are licensed separately and are also shown here.

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Profession	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change, 2021 to 2025
Clinical social workers (LCSW)	1,907	2,063	2,095	2,419	2,636	+38%
Mental health counselors (LMHC)	1,009	1,050	1,209	1,212	1,768	+75%
Marriage and family therapists (LMFT)	139	169	177	148	292	+110%
Psychologists	598	696	774	706	915	+53%
All four	3,653	3,978	4,255	4,485	5,611	+54%

New licenses issued per calendar year, for all license holders wherever they live. NYSED does not publish these by county.

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What this means if you are looking for a therapist in Brooklyn

• There are thousands of licensed therapists in Brooklyn. 6,697 list a Brooklyn address, even though the rate per resident is lower than in Manhattan. A shorter local list does not mean there is no one to see.
• You do not have to look only in your own borough. A therapist near work, or one who offers video sessions, can be as practical as one near home.
• The letters after a name all describe state-licensed professionals. Clinical social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists and psychologists train differently. Our article on who does what in mental health care explains the differences, and you can check any New York license online.
• Openings and cost matter more than the count. Whether a therapist takes your insurance, has time for new clients and fits what you need decides more than how many practice nearby. Our guide to in-network, out-of-network and self-pay care walks through the options.

Method, sources and limits

The New York State Education Department's Office of the Professions publishes, for each licensed profession, the number of registered licensees in each of the state's 62 counties, based on the county of each licensee's primary mailing address. We downloaded these tables for licensed clinical social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists and psychologists (the four professions we count as "licensed therapists"), and for master social workers, creative arts therapists and psychoanalysts, which we show separately. All seven tables are dated July 1, 2026.

Each borough is a county: Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County and Staten Island is Richmond County. We divided each county's count by the Census Bureau's population estimate for July 1, 2025 (Vintage 2025), the latest available, and multiplied by 100,000. New York City figures add up the five boroughs.

A script computes every figure from the saved files (each checked against a SHA-256 hash). A second script refetches the seven NYSED pages, reads their tables cell by cell, takes population from New York State's own county estimates on data.ny.gov instead of the Census Bureau file, and recomputes every count, rate and rank. All checks matched on November 12, 2026.

Sources

• NYSED Office of the Professions, License Statistics: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (opens in a new tab). Registered licensees by county, as of July 1, 2026.
• NYSED Office of the Professions, License Statistics: Mental Health Counselors (opens in a new tab). Registered licensees by county, as of July 1, 2026.
• NYSED Office of the Professions, License Statistics: Marriage and Family Therapists (opens in a new tab). Registered licensees by county, as of July 1, 2026.
• NYSED Office of the Professions, License Statistics: Psychology (opens in a new tab). Registered licensees by county, as of July 1, 2026.
• NYSED Office of the Professions, License Statistics: Licensed Master Social Worker, Creative Arts Therapists and Psychoanalysts (opens in a new tab). Registered licensees by county, as of July 1, 2026.
• U.S. Census Bureau, County Population Totals: 2020 to 2025 (Vintage 2025) (opens in a new tab). Estimates for July 1, 2025.
• New York State, Annual Population Estimates for New York State and Counties (data.ny.gov) (opens in a new tab). Used only to check the population figures.

Limits

• Counts follow each licensee's primary mailing address, which can be a home or an office. A therapist who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan counts in Brooklyn, and the reverse.
• A registered license does not mean the person sees therapy clients, works full time or has openings. Some work in hospitals, schools, research, teaching or administration.
• 15,737 licensees in these four professions have a mailing address in another state. They are not counted in any county, though some of them practice in New York City.
• NYSED's county rows do not always add up exactly to its state totals (for clinical social workers the counties come to 7 fewer). We use the published figures as they are.
• Population is estimated for July 1, 2025, a year before the license counts. Psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners, who can prescribe medication, are not included here.

Cite this study

This page reports public population data. It is general information, not medical advice, a diagnosis or a treatment plan, and reading it does not make you a patient of Mind Body Seven.