Online psychiatrists in Iowa

982 listed. Telehealth requires a psychiatrist to be licensed in the state the patient is in, so everyone here can treat patients located in Iowa.

982 matching clinicians.

Psychiatry in Iowa by the numbers

Iowa has 977 psychiatric prescribers in the federal provider registry: 316 psychiatrists with an MD, 92 with a DO, and 569 psychiatric nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners make up 58.2% of prescribers in the state. That works out to 30.1 per 100,000 residents, of whom 12.6 are physicians.

316MD psychiatrists
92DO psychiatrists
569psychiatric NPs
47child & adolescent
30.1per 100k residents
106cities represented

Subspecialties in Iowa

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SubspecialtyCliniciansShare
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner 568 58.1%
Psychiatry 361 36.9%
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 47 4.8%
Addiction Psychiatry 2 0.2%
Psychosomatic Medicine 2 0.2%
Forensic Psychiatry 1 0.1%
Geriatric Psychiatry 1 0.1%

The 25 cities with the most psychiatrists in Iowa

CityTotalMDDONPChild
Iowa City 194135 1841 20
Des Moines 13740 4255 10
Cedar Rapids 6925 143 0
West Des Moines 466 336 3
Davenport 358 225 1
Waterloo 3411 122 1
Sioux City 305 322 3
Council Bluffs 244 020 1
Dubuque 249 114 0
Ames 235 213 0
Coralville 2210 210 1
Ankeny 191 018 0
Johnston 181 115 0
Clive 171 016 0
Mason City 145 09 1
Urbandale 142 210 0
Fort Dodge 121 110 0
Spencer 121 110 0
Cedar Falls 114 07 1
Ottumwa 113 35 0
Waverly 91 08 0
West Burlington 95 22 0
Independence 84 04 0
North Liberty 83 05 1
Atlantic 63 03 1

Largest psychiatry practices in Iowa

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.

PracticeCliniciansMDDONP
State University Of Iowa · 200 Hawkins Dr, Iowa City 159120 1524
Broadlawns Medical Center · 1801 Hickman Rd, Des Moines 3315 117
Mercy Clinics, Inc · 1111 6th Ave, Des Moines 276 201
Vera French Community Mental Health · 1441 W Central Park Ave, Davenport 122 010
Alegent Health Bergan Mercy Health System · 801 Harmony St, Council Bluffs 102 08
Abbe Center For Cmh @ Independence · 520 11th St Nw, Cedar Rapids 102 08
Black Hawk-Grundy Mental Health Center Inc. · 3251 W 9th St, Waterloo 102 08
Hillcrest Family Services · 200 Mercy Dr, Dubuque 104 15
Cedar Centre Psychiatric Group · 1730 1st Ave Ne, Cedar Rapids 1010 00
Va Cihcs · 3600 30th St, Des Moines 92 07

New psychiatric prescribers in Iowa, year by year

New registrations in Iowa by credential
0 20 40 60 2021 · MD: 5 2021 · DO: 7 2021 · NP: 54 2022 · MD: 5 2022 · DO: 5 2022 · NP: 39 2023 · MD: 11 2023 · DO: 3 2023 · NP: 54 2024 · MD: 7 2024 · DO: 7 2024 · NP: 52 2025 · MD: 6 2025 · DO: 7 2025 · NP: 46 2026 · MD: 5 2026 · DO: 4 2026 · NP: 37202120222023202420252026
MDDONP

Counted from the date each clinician joined the federal registry.

Clinicians on the registry in Iowa, running total
0 200 400 600 2021 · MD: 282 2022 · MD: 287 2023 · MD: 298 2024 · MD: 305 2025 · MD: 311 2026 · MD: 316 2021 · DO: 66 2022 · DO: 71 2023 · DO: 74 2024 · DO: 81 2025 · DO: 88 2026 · DO: 92 2021 · NP: 341 2022 · NP: 380 2023 · NP: 434 2024 · NP: 486 2025 · NP: 532 2026 · NP: 569202120222023202420252026
MDDONP

How many of today's clinicians had registered by each 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.

YearNew MDNew DONew NP New totalRegistered to date
2021 5 7 54 66 689
2022 5 5 39 49 738
2023 11 3 54 68 806
2024 7 7 52 66 872
2025 6 7 46 59 931
2026 5 4 37 46 977

Who is practising, and for how long

301 of Iowa's psychiatric prescribers (30.8%) registered with the federal system in the last five years, and 53 in the last twelve months. 216 have been registered for more than twenty years. The nurse practitioner side is newer: 41.7% of psychiatric NPs registered in the last five years, against 11.4% of MD psychiatrists.

Of those who record a gender with the registry, 68.2% are women, split 87.5% among nurse practitioners and 41.8% 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.

What psychiatry costs in Iowa

No clinician in Iowa has published a rate here yet. Every claimed profile on this site states both numbers as a condition of going live, so you can compare before you call rather than after.

Listings without a published rate come from the federal NPI registry and are unclaimed. We haven't verified them and they may be out of date.