Online psychiatrists in Washington

Psychiatry in Washington by the numbers

Washington has 3,207 psychiatric prescribers in the federal provider registry: 1,277 psychiatrists with an MD, 77 with a DO, and 1,853 psychiatric nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners make up 57.8% of prescribers in the state. That works out to 40.3 per 100,000 residents, of whom 17 are physicians.

Subspecialties in Washington

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The 25 cities with the most psychiatrists in Washington

Largest psychiatry practices in Washington

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 Washington, 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 79% of new registrations in 2021 and 98% in 2025.

Who is practising, and for how long

626 of Washington's psychiatric prescribers (19.5%) registered with the federal system in the last five years, and 82 in the last twelve months. 491 have been registered for more than twenty years. The nurse practitioner side is newer: 31.9% of psychiatric NPs registered in the last five years, against 2.4% of MD psychiatrists.

Of those who record a gender with the registry, 63.6% are women, split 77.7% among nurse practitioners and 44.6% 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.