Online psychiatrists in Virginia

Psychiatry in Virginia by the numbers

Virginia has 3,069 psychiatric prescribers in the federal provider registry: 1,421 psychiatrists with an MD, 121 with a DO, and 1,527 psychiatric nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners make up 49.8% of prescribers in the state. That works out to 34.8 per 100,000 residents, of whom 17.5 are physicians.

Subspecialties in Virginia

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The 25 cities with the most psychiatrists in Virginia

Largest psychiatry practices in Virginia

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 Virginia, 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 74% of new registrations in 2021 and 97% in 2025.

Who is practising, and for how long

841 of Virginia's psychiatric prescribers (27.4%) registered with the federal system in the last five years, and 191 in the last twelve months. 673 have been registered for more than twenty years. The nurse practitioner side is newer: 50% of psychiatric NPs registered in the last five years, against 4.6% of MD psychiatrists.

Of those who record a gender with the registry, 66% are women, split 86.9% among nurse practitioners and 45.1% 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.