Find a Therapist in The Plains, the United States

The list includes licensed marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers and licensed professional counsellors.

Licensing here runs state by state rather than nationally. Where a practitioner works decides which rules apply to them, and which register holds them. The cities below are the places with practitioners listed here. Each city page carries the people who practise there.

In the United States what you pay depends on your insurance as much as on the therapist, and many therapists do not take insurance directly. With an in-network provider you pay a copay and your plan pays the therapist.

Out of network you pay the full fee up front and claim part of it back. That only applies if your plan has out-of-network benefits, and only after the deductible, and some plans have none at all. Where cost is the obstacle, community mental health centres charge on an income-assessed basis and many practices hold reduced-fee places they do not advertise.

Read What therapy costs in the United States.

There is no single national licence for therapists in the United States. Every state, and the District of Columbia, licenses through its own boards under its own practice law. Psychologists, counsellors, social workers and family therapists therefore each answer to a board in the state where they practise, under whatever title that state uses. Because the licence is a state licence, the question that works anywhere is which state licence covers the care you receive.

TherapyRoute's guide to how mental health licensing works state by state, and how to check a licence yourself sets out the steps. A psychology licence in the United States is issued by a state board, not federally.

The Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards keeps one directory of every state and territory board. Each board's own licence-verification search sits beside its entry. Start there, with the state where your therapist practises. That directory covers psychology boards.

Counsellors, social workers and marriage and family therapists answer to different boards in the same states. For those titles, ask which board and which state. For a psychologist, verify with the ASPPB directory of state and provincial licensing boards.

For the other titles, use that state board's own licence lookup. Licensed Psychologist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist are titles a state licence carries, and the wording differs by state.

The counselling licence is worded differently again from one state to the next, as Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Mental Health Counselor or Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. Counsellor and therapist on their own do not say whether a licence exists, because some counselling occupations are licensed and some are not.