The U.S. mental health services industry includes 24,696 facilities operated by 14,554 companies and employs 752,767 workers. Marketdata LLC analyzes this extensive provider network using national and state-level operating data, including facility counts, clients in treatment, revenues, annual receipts per establishment, payrolls, treatment approaches, and employment trends.

The report presents historical and forecast market size data covering 2000 through 2030. It also compares 2022 Economic Census findings with 2017 results and evaluates industry performance during the pandemic recovery period from 2022 through 2025. Detailed analysis addresses outpatient and inpatient facilities, psychiatric hospitals, substance abuse treatment centers, mental health technology platforms, and other major market segments.

Key areas covered in the U.S. mental health services market report include:

• U.S. mental health market size, structure, segmentation, and forecasts through 2030

• Patient and end-user demographics, including changing mental health prevalence

• Economic Census data and comparisons between 2017 and 2022

• National and state-level revenues, payrolls, facility counts, and operating metrics

• Outpatient, inpatient, psychiatric, and substance abuse treatment services

• Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and industry performance from 2022 through 2025

• Mental health apps, teletherapy services, market competitors, and technology adoption

• Behavioral health workforce shortages, therapist compensation, and recruitment challenges

• Industry growth drivers, access barriers, competitive trends, and long-term opportunities

The study also includes profiles of nine leading mental health services and digital behavioral health competitors: Acadia Healthcare, Universal Health Services, Lyra Health, Spring Health, Headspace, Calm, Talkspace, BetterHelp through Teladoc Health, and Carelon Behavioral Health through Elevance Health. Each profile contributes to the report’s assessment of competitive positioning, service delivery models, and the evolving role of major providers in the U.S. mental health services market.

Marketdata LLC’s research provides industry participants, healthcare executives, investors, consultants, and service providers with a consolidated analysis of market performance, competitive activity, workforce conditions, and growth prospects across the U.S. behavioral health sector.

Key Topics Covered:

Introduction: Study Scope & Methodology

Market Characteristics & Structure

• Summary: Market definition, scope of the problem

• Types of treatment facilities

• Types of mental health disorders

• Non-profit vs. for-profit treatment centers

• Patient demographics: Latest CDC data on the increased incidence of mental health disorders

• Market Status

• Major Market Trends and growth drivers

• Market Size, growth, forecasts

• Facts about mental health

Industry Structure: Facility Operations

• Summary: Discussion of types of facilities

• Analysis of 2022 & 2017 Economic Census Data – key metrics (no. of facilities, no. of firms, no of employees, growth from 2027 to 2022, labor costs, avg. revenues per facility, per employee)

• Tables:

  • Number of U.S. Mental Health Facilities, by Type (private, state/fed. gov’t.) – 2024

  • Mental Health Facilities, By Service Setting (inpatient, residential) – 2024

  • Mental Health Facility Type (hospital, treatment center, outpat.) – 2024

  • Mental Health Facilities, Treatment Approaches Provided – 2024

  • Age Groups Served

  • Facility Operations (no. of clients in treatment – March 2024

  • No. of Clients in Treatment, by type – March 29, 2024

  • Clients in treatment, by type of care – 2024

  • Types of Services Offered by substance abuse/mental health facilities

  • 2022 Economic Census Data, Industry Snapshot, key ratios

  • 2017 Economic Census Data, as above

  • No. and estd. receipts of outpatient mental health facilities, by state: 2023

  • No. and estd. receipts of inpatient mental health facilities, by state: 2023

  • No. and estd. receipts of psychiatric & substance abuse hospitals, by state: 2023

Market Size & Growth, Market Segments

• Summary & definition of the market, NAICS codes used for Census data: for Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities, Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals

• Key numbers, 2022: $ revenues of outpatient & inpatient mental health facilities and offices of mental-health practitioners (Census Service Annual Survey estimates, employer establishments)

• Discussion of market size estimation methods, known facts about the mental health treatment market, major industry metrics

• Discussion of major drivers of the market, challenges

• Recent performance of the industry leaders: Acadia Healthcare, Universal Health Services (2023, 2024, first 9 months of 2025)

• Historical market growth before the pandemic

• 2020 Market Performance: Effects of the 2020 pandemic, Marketdata estimates of industry $ size and growth, why demand soared for mental health services

• 2022-2025 Market Performance: Growth in the market post-pandemic recovery period, demand levels off

• 2030 Forecasts: key positive factors affecting demand (telehealth, greater demand, greater public awareness, more employer support, legislative changes), Marketdata estimates of industry $ size and growth, projections by other market research firms / Factors Constraining Growth: shortage of mental health Professionals, cost of treatment.

• Tables:

  • Revenues of U.S. Mental Health Treatment Facilities: 2000-2030 ($ millions)

  • Total Market: Size of the U.S. Mental Health Treatment Industry: 2000-2030 Revenues ($ millions) – facilities, hospitals, apps

The Mental Health Apps Market

• What apps do, how they help users, regulations pertaining to the app companies

• Platform Insights: iOS segment dominates the market, Android segment is anticipated to grow at the fastest rate

• List of the key mental health apps competitors

• Apps’ effectiveness in improving mental health disorders

• Market challenges: data privacy, lack of clinical validation of their efficiency

• Market Size & growth: rationale for estimates, public sources used, growth soars during the pandemic, levels off from 2023-2025

• Wearables in Mental Wellness: Apple watch, Google’s FitBit

• Tables:

  • Comparison of Some Major Mental Health Apps, by Features

  • Estimated Revenues of The Major Mental Health Apps – 2011-2030 forecast

The Behavioral Health Workforce: The Therapist Shortage

• Discussion of scope of the shortage, projected shortages by type of therapist

• Causes of the shortage: burnout, COVID-19 pandemic, lack of diversity in the workforce, increased, demand, access barriers, geographic imbalances

• Make-up of the behavioral health workforce: licensed providers, clinical supporters,

• Community care workers, frontline workers

• Behavioral Health Worker Salaries: avg. yearly salaries for substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, & Mental Health Counselors, psychologist, psychiatric techs (as of 2024)

• Regional Analysis: U.S. regions with the greatest shortages of mental health facilities and providers

Profiles of The Major Mental Health Competitors

• Facility Operators

• Digital Platforms, Apps

• Insurers

Reference Directory

• Directory of mental health treatment and education organizations, societies, Institutes, magazines, reports, special surveys, experts, other information sources

Companies Featured

• Acadia Healthcare

• Apple

• BetterHelp (Teladoc Health)

• Calm

• Carelon Behavioral Health (Elevance Health)

• Elevance Health

• Google (FitBit)

• Headspace

• Lyra Health

• Spring Health

• Talkspace

• Teladoc Health

• Universal Health Services

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