Mental Health Counselors
Work with individuals and groups to deal with anxiety, depression, grief, stress, suicidal impulses, and other mental and emotional health issues.
2038 Supply (SQ)
124,270
2038 Demand (SQ)
224,050
2038 Gap
-99,780
2038 Elevated Need
327,960
Supply & demand trend — US Total, Total
HRSA scenarios · 13 lines
Each line is a separate HRSA projection. Blue = supply, red = demand. The two solid "Status Quo" lines are the baseline projections HRSA publishes; dashed lines are HRSA's own stress tests. Hover a line for the exact year value, or click a chip below to isolate it.
Supply scenarios
Demand scenarios
Methodology notes
- All values come directly from HRSA's Workforce_Projections_FullData.xlsx (FY2025 release).
- Values are rounded to the nearest 10 per HRSA disclosure convention.
- The chart shows every scenario HRSA publishes for this (profession, geography, rurality) tuple. Missing lines = scenario not applicable to this profession (e.g., Income Effect only applies to oral health; Unmet Need only to behavioral health).
- See Methodology & Sourcesfor HRSA's model assumptions and our extension plan.