List of psychotherapies
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This is an alphabetical list of psychotherapies.
See the main article psychotherapy for a description of what psychotherapy is and how it developed (see also counseling, and the list of counseling topics).
This list contains some approaches that may not call themselves a psychotherapy but have a similar aim, of improving mental health and well being through talk and other means of communication.
In the 20th century a great number of psychotherapies have been created. All of these face continuous change, both in popularity, methods and effectiveness. Sometimes they are self-administered, either individually, in pairs, small groups or larger groups. However, usually a professional practitioner will use a combination of therapies and approaches, often in a team treatment process that involves reading/ talking/ reporting to other professional practitioners.
The older established therapies usually have a code of ethics, professional associations, training programs, and so on. The newer and innovative therapies may not yet have established these structures or may not wish to.
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A
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
- Adlerian therapy
- Adventure therapy
- Analytical psychology
- Art therapy
- Attack therapy
- Attachment-based therapy (children)
- Attachment therapy
- Attachment-based psychotherapy
- Autogenic training
B
- Behavior modification
- Behavior therapy
- Biodynamic psychotherapy
- Bioenergetic analysis
- Biofeedback
- Bionomic psychotherapy
- Body psychotherapy
- Brief therapy
C
- Classical Adlerian psychotherapy
- Characteranalytic vegetotherapy
- Chess therapy
- Child psychotherapy
- Client-centered psychotherapy
- Co-counselling
- Cognitive analytic psychotherapy
- Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)
- Coherence therapy
- Collaborative therapy
- Compassion focused therapy
- Concentrative movement therapy
- Contemplative psychotherapy
- Conversational model
- Conversion therapy
- Core process psychotherapy
D
- Dance therapy
- Depth psychology
- Daseinsanalytic psychotherapy
- Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS)
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Dreamwork
- Drama therapy
- Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
E
- Ecological Counseling
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
- Encounter groups
- Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)
- Experiential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Existential therapy
- Exposure and response prevention
- Expressive therapy
F
- Family Constellations
- Family therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Focusing
- Freudian psychotherapy
- Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP)
- Future oriented therapy
G
- Gestalt therapy
- Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy
- Group Analysis
- Group therapy
- Guided Imagery Therapy
H
- Hakomi
- Holistic psychotherapy
- Holotropic Breathwork
- Holding therapy
- Humanistic psychology
- Human givens psychotherapy
- Hypnotherapy
I
- Integrative body psychotherapy
- Integral Eye Movement Therapy
- Integral psychotherapy
- Integrative psychotherapy
- Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy
- Internal Family Systems Model
- Internet based psychotherapy
- Interpersonal psychoanalysis
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
J
K
L
M
- Marriage counseling
- Milieu Therapy
- Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
- Mentalization based treatment (MBT)
- Method of Levels (MOL)
- Morita Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multimodal Therapy
- Multitheoretical Psychotherapy
- Music therapy
N
- Narrative Therapy
- Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy (Note: This is not an alternative name for Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
- Nonviolent Communication
O
P
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
- Pastoral counseling/therapy
- Person-centered (or Client-Centered or Rogerian) psychotherapy
- Personal construct psychology (PCP)
- Person First Approach in Therapy
- Play therapy
- Positive psychology
- Postural Integration
- Primal therapy
- Primal integration
- Process Oriented Psychology
- Process Psychology
- Prolonged Exposure Therapy
- Provocative Therapy
- Psychedelic psychotherapy
- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychodrama
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Psychosynthesis
- Psychosystems Analysis
- Pulsing (bodywork)
Q
R
- Radix therapy
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
- Rational Living Therapy (RLT)
- Reality therapy
- Rebirthing-Breathwork
- Recovered Memory Therapy
- Re-evaluation Counseling
- Reichian psychotherapy
- Reiki
- Relationship counseling
- Relational-cultural therapy
- Relational Empowerment Therapy
- Reprogramming
- Rogerian psychotherapy
- Rolfing
- Rubenfeld Synergy
S
- Schema Therapy
- Self-relations Psychotherapy or Sponsorship
- Sensorimotor psychotherapy
- Sexual Identity Therapy
- SHEN Therapy
- Social therapy
- Solution focused brief therapy
- Somatic psychology
- Sophia analysis
- Status dynamic psychotherapy
- Symbolic-Experiential Therapy
- Systematic desensitization
- Systematic Treatment Selection (STS)
- Systemic Constellations
- Systemic therapy
T
- T Groups
- Thought Field Therapy
- Transactional Analysis (TA)
- Transactional Psychotherapy (TP)
- Transference Focused Psychotherapy
- Transpersonal psychology
- Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)
- Traumatic incident reduction
- Twelve-step programs
