List of psychotherapies

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This is an alphabetical list of psychotherapies.

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 were created. All of these face continuous change in popularity, methods, and effectiveness. Sometimes they are self-administered, either individually, in pairs, small groups or larger groups. However, a professional practitioner will usually 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.

This list is a mixture of psychotherapy articles that cover topics at various levels of abstraction, such as theoretical frameworks, specific therapy packages, and individual techniques.

• Abreaction therapy
• Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP)
• Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
• Adlerian therapy
• Adventure therapy
• Analytical psychology
• Animal-assisted therapy
• Art therapy
• Association splitting
• Attack therapy
• Attachment-based psychotherapy
• Attachment-based therapy (children)
• Attachment therapy
• Autogenic training
• Aversion therapy

• Behavioral activation
• Behavior modification
• Behavior therapy
• Bibliotherapy
• Biodynamic psychotherapy
• Bioenergetic analysis
• Biofeedback
• Body psychotherapy
• Bonding psychotherapy
• Brainspotting
• Brief psychotherapy

• Classical Adlerian psychotherapy
• Chess therapy
• Child psychotherapy
• Christian counseling
• Clean language
• Client-centered psychotherapy
• Co-counselling
• Cognitive analytic therapy
• Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I)
• Cognitive processing therapy (CPT)
• Cognitive therapy
• Coherence therapy
• Collaborative therapy
• Compassion focused therapy (CFT)
• Concentrative movement therapy
• Contemplative psychotherapy
• Contextual therapy
• Conversational model
• Conversion therapy (pseudoscientific)
• Counting method
• Couples therapy
• Creative music therapy
• Cultural family therapy

• Dance therapy or dance movement therapy (DMT)
• Daseinsanalysis
• Decoupling for body-focused repetitive behaviors
• Depth psychology
• Developmental eclecticism
• Developmental needs meeting strategy (DNMS)
• Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
• Drama therapy
• Dreamwork
• Dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP)
• Dynamic deconstructive psychotherapy

• Eastern Orthodox psychotherapy
• Eclectic psychotherapy
• Ecological counseling
• Ego-state therapy
• Emotionally focused therapy (EFT)
• Emotional Freedom Techniques, a pseudoscientific therapy
• Encounter groups
• Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
• Existential therapy
• Exposure and response prevention
• Exposure therapy
• Expressive therapies

• Family Constellations
• Family therapy
• Feminist therapy
• Focusing (psychotherapy)
• Forensic psychotherapy
• Freudian psychotherapy
• Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP)
• Future-oriented therapy

• Gay affirmative psychotherapy
• Gestalt therapy
• Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy
• Grief counseling
• Group analysis
• Group therapy
• Guided affective imagery

• Habit reversal training
• Hagiotherapy
• Hakomi
• Heimler method of human social functioning
• Hip hop therapy
• Holotropic breathwork
• Holding therapy
• Humanistic psychology
• Human givens
• Hypnotherapy

• Imago therapy
• Immersion therapy
• Inner Relationship Focusing
• Insight-oriented psychotherapy
• Institutional psychotherapy
• Integral psychotherapy
• Integrative body psychotherapy
• Integrative psychotherapy
• Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy
• Internal Family Systems Model
• Interpersonal psychoanalysis
• Interpersonal psychotherapy
• Interpersonal reconstructive therapy
• Individual psychotherapy

• Journal therapy
• Jungian psychotherapy

• Logic-based therapy
• Logotherapy

• Marriage counseling
• MDMA-assisted psychotherapy
• Milieu therapy
• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
• Mindfulness-based stress reduction
• Mentalization-based treatment
• Metacognitive therapy
• Metacognitive training
• Metaphor therapy
• Method of levels (MOL)
• Mode deactivation therapy (MDT)
• Morita therapy
• Motivational enhancement therapy
• Motivational interviewing
• Multimodal therapy
• Multiple impact therapy
• Multisystemic therapy
• Multitheoretical psychotherapy
• Music therapy

• Narrative exposure therapy
• Narrative therapy
• Nonviolent Communication
• Nordoff–Robbins music therapy
• Nouthetic counseling
• Nude psychotherapy

• Object relations psychotherapy
• Online counseling
• Orthodox psychotherapy

• Parent–child interaction therapy
• Parent-infant psychotherapy
• Parent management training
• Pastoral counseling
• Person-centered therapy
• Play therapy
• Poetry therapy
• Positive psychology
• Positive psychotherapy
• Postural Integration
• Primal therapy
• Primal Integration
• Process oriented psychology
• Process psychology
• Progressive counting (PC)
• Prolonged exposure therapy
• Provocative therapy
• Psychedelic therapy
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychodrama
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Psychosynthesis
• Psychotherapy and social action model
• Pulsing (bodywork)

• Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
• Rational living therapy (RLT)
• Reality therapy
• Rebirthing-breathwork
• Recovered-memory therapy
• Re-evaluation counseling
• Regulation-focused psychotherapy for children
• Reichian therapy
• Relationship counseling
• Relational-cultural therapy
• Reminiscence therapy
• Remote therapy
• Rogerian psychotherapy
• Rolfing

• Sandplay therapy
• Satitherapy
• Schema therapy
• School-based family counseling
• Sensory integration therapy
• Sex therapy
• Sexual identity therapy
• Sexual trauma therapy
• Social therapy
• Solution-focused brief therapy
• Somatic experiencing
• Somatic psychology
• Spiritual self-schema therapy
• Status dynamic psychotherapy
• Strategic family therapy
• Structural family therapy
• Superhero therapy
• Supportive psychotherapy
• Systematic desensitization
• Systemic therapy

• T-groups
• Therapeutic community
• Thought Field Therapy
• Transactional analysis
• Transference focused psychotherapy
• Transpersonal psychology
• Transtheoretical model (TTM or "stages of change")
• Trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy
• Trauma-informed feminist therapy
• Trauma systems therapy
• Twelve-step programs

• Vegetotherapy

• Wilderness therapy
• Writing therapy

• Yoga for therapeutic purposes

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