Online psychiatrists in North Carolina

Psychiatry in North Carolina by the numbers

North Carolina has 3,232 psychiatric prescribers in the federal provider registry: 1,656 psychiatrists with an MD, 121 with a DO, and 1,455 psychiatric nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners make up 45% of prescribers in the state. That works out to 29.3 per 100,000 residents, of whom 16.1 are physicians.

Subspecialties in North Carolina

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The 25 cities with the most psychiatrists in North Carolina

Largest psychiatry practices in North Carolina

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 North Carolina, 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 73% of new registrations in 2021 and 98% in 2025.

Who is practising, and for how long

776 of North Carolina's psychiatric prescribers (24%) registered with the federal system in the last five years, and 168 in the last twelve months. 787 have been registered for more than twenty years. The nurse practitioner side is newer: 47.3% of psychiatric NPs registered in the last five years, against 4.6% of MD psychiatrists.

Of those who record a gender with the registry, 64.6% are women, split 86.2% among nurse practitioners and 47% 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.