Online psychiatrists in District of Columbia

Psychiatry in District of Columbia by the numbers

District of Columbia has 795 psychiatric prescribers in the federal provider registry: 547 psychiatrists with an MD, 26 with a DO, and 222 psychiatric nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners make up 27.9% of prescribers in the state. That works out to 113.2 per 100,000 residents, of whom 81.6 are physicians.

Subspecialties in District of Columbia

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The 8 cities with the most psychiatrists in District of Columbia

Largest psychiatry practices in District of Columbia

Clinicians grouped by shared practice address. The registry holds no employer field for individuals, so where a name appears it comes from an organisation registered at the same address — a reasonable inference, not a stated fact. A large building can house several practices, and a clinician may list an address they do not belong to.

New psychiatric prescribers in District of Columbia, year by year

Both charts are built from registration dates, so they show when the current workforce joined. The registry records no departures, which means the running total can only rise and neither chart should be read as net growth — a clinician who registered in 2019 and has since retired is simply absent from both. Nurse practitioners were 42% of new registrations in 2021 and 80% in 2025.

Who is practising, and for how long

124 of District of Columbia's psychiatric prescribers (15.6%) registered with the federal system in the last five years, and 7 in the last twelve months. 96 have been registered for more than twenty years. The nurse practitioner side is newer: 36% of psychiatric NPs registered in the last five years, against 7.9% of MD psychiatrists.

Of those who record a gender with the registry, 59.9% are women, split 84.7% among nurse practitioners and 49.9% among MD psychiatrists.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, refreshed weekly. Registration with the federal registry is not the same as actively practising, and does not indicate whether a clinician offers telehealth or is accepting new patients. Population figures are US Census Bureau estimates.