List of Psychotherapies
This is a list of psychotherapies alphabetically. This list includes some methods not to be referred to as psychotherapies, but to improve mental health and wellness via conversation and other communication methods.
Psychotherapy is the application of psychological methods to assist an individual to modify conduct and to resolve issues in the required way, especially if it is based on regular personal interactions. Psychotherapy seeks at improving the well-being and mental health of an individual, resolving or mitigating troubled attitudes, attitudes, compulsions, ideas or feelings, and enhance social interactions and competencies. Some psychotherapies are considered evidence-based to treat certain mental disorders that have been diagnosed. Others were grouped for being pseudoscientists.
List Psychotherapies This list psychotherapies alphabetically This list includes methods referred psychotherapies improve mental health wellness conversation communication methods Psychotherapy application psychological methods assist individual modify conduct resolve issues required based regular personal interactions Psychotherapy seeks improving mental health individual resolving mitigating troubled attitudes attitudes compulsions ideas feelings enhance social interactions competencies Some psychotherapies considered evidence based treat mental disorders diagnosed Others grouped pseudoscientists Psychotherapy psychological methods based regular personal interaction person change behavior overcome problems desired ways Psychotherapy aims improve individual mental health resolve mitigate troublesome behaviors beliefs compulsions thoughts emotions improve relationships social skills Certain psychotherapies considered evidence based treating diagnosed mental disorders Others criticized pseudoscience There psychotherapy techniques minor variations based conceptions psychology ethics live techniques Most involve sessions client therapist conducted groups including families Psychotherapists mental health professionals psychiatrists psychologists clinical social workers marriage family therapists professional counselors Psychotherapists variety backgrounds depending jurisdiction legally regulated voluntarily regulated unregulated term protected This alphabetical list psychotherapies This list approaches psychotherapy aim improving mental health talk communication 20th century great number psychotherapies created All face continuous change popularity methods effectiveness Sometimes administered individually pairs small groups larger groups However professional practitioner combination therapies approaches team treatment process involves reading talking reporting professional practitioners The older established therapies code ethics professional associations training programs The newer innovative therapies established structures AAbreaction therapyAccelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy AEDP Acceptance commitment therapy ACT Adlerian therapyAdventure therapyAnalytical psychologyAnimal assisted therapyArt therapyAttack therapyAttachment based psychotherapyAttachment based therapy children Attachment therapyAutogenic trainingAversion therapyBBehavioral activationBehavior modificationBehavior therapyBibliotherapyBiodynamic psychotherapyBioenergetic analysisBiofeedbackBody psychotherapyBrief psychotherapyCClassical Adlerian psychotherapyChess therapyChild psychotherapyClient centered psychotherapyCo counsellingCognitive analytic therapyCognitive therapyCognitive behavioral therapy CBT Coherence therapyCollaborative therapyCompassion focused therapy CFT Concentrative movement therapyContemplative psychotherapyContextual therapyCounting methodConversational modelConversion therapyDDance therapy dance movement therapy DMT Depth psychologyDaseinsanalysisDevelopmental meeting strategy DNMS Dialectical behavior therapy DBT Drama therapyDreamworkDyadic developmental psychotherapy DDP EEclectic psychotherapyEcological counselingEmotionally focused therapy EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques EFT Encounter groupsEye movement desensitization reprocessing EMDR Existential therapyExposure response preventionExpressive therapiesFFamily ConstellationsFamily therapyFeminist therapyFocusing psychotherapy Freudian psychotherapyFunctional analytic psychotherapy FAP Future oriented therapy GGestalt therapyGestalt theoretical psychotherapyGrief counselingGroup analysisGroup therapyGuided affective imageryHHakomiHolotropic BreathworkHolding therapyHumanistic psychologyHuman GivensHypnotherapyIInner Relationship FocusingInstitutional psychotherapyIntegrative body psychotherapyIntegral psychotherapyIntegrative psychotherapyIntensive short term dynamic psychotherapyInternal Family Systems ModelInterpersonal psychoanalysisInterpersonal psychotherapyInterpersonal reconstructive therapyJJournal therapyJungian psychotherapyLLogic based therapyLogotherapyMMarriage counselingMDMA assisted psychotherapyMilieu therapyMindfulness based cognitive therapyMindfulness based stress reductionMentalization based treatmentMetacognitive therapyMethod levels MOL Mode deactivation therapy MDT Morita therapyMotivational interviewingMultimodal therapyMultisystemic therapyMultitheoretical psychotherapyMusic therapyNNarrative therapyNonviolent CommunicationNouthetic counselingNude psychotherapyOObject relations psychotherapyOrthodox psychotherapyPParent child interaction therapyParent management trainingPastoral counselingPerson centered therapyPlay therapyPoetry therapyPositive psychologyPositive psychotherapyPostural IntegrationPrimal therapyPrimal IntegrationProcess oriented psychologyProcess psychologyProgressive counting Prolonged exposure therapyProvocative therapyPsychedelic therapyPsychoanalysisPsychodramaPsychodynamic psychotherapyPsychosynthesisPsychotherapy social action modelPulsingRRational emotive behavior therapy REBT Rational living therapy RLT Reality therapyRebirthing breathworkRecovered memory therapyReichian therapyRelationship counselingRelational cultural therapyRemote therapyRogerian psychotherapySSandplay therapySchema therapySensorimotor psychotherapySexual identity therapySex therapySocial therapySolution focused therapySomatic experiencingSomatic psychologyStatus dynamic psychotherapyStructural family therapySupportive psychotherapySystematic desensitizationSystemic therapyTT groupsTherapeutic communityThought Field TherapyTransactional analysisTransference focused psychotherapyTranspersonal psychologyTranstheoretical model TTM stages change Twelve step programsVVegetotherapyWWilderness therapyWriting therapy List Psychotherapies ZodiacPage
