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).
| Part of a series on |
| Psychology |
|---|
 |
|
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.
A
- Abreaction therapy
- Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP)
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
- Adlerian therapy
- Adventure therapy
- Analytical psychology
- Animal-assisted therapy
- Art therapy
- Attack therapy
- Attachment-based psychotherapy
- Attachment-based therapy (children)
- Attachment therapy
- Autogenic training
- Aversion therapy
B
C
- Classical Adlerian psychotherapy
- Chess therapy
- Child psychotherapy
- Client-centered psychotherapy
- Co-counselling
- Cognitive analytic therapy
- Cognitive therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Coherence therapy
- Collaborative therapy
- Compassion focused therapy (CFT)
- Concentrative movement therapy
- Contemplative psychotherapy
- Contextual therapy
- Counting method
- Conversational model
- Conversion therapy
D
- Dance therapy or dance movement therapy (DMT)
- Depth psychology
- Daseinsanalysis
- Developmental needs meeting strategy (DNMS)
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Drama therapy
- Dreamwork
- Dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP)
- Dynamic deconstructive psychotherapy
E
- Eclectic psychotherapy
- Ecological counseling
- Emotionally focused therapy (EFT)
- Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
- Encounter groups
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Existential therapy
- Exposure and response prevention
- Expressive therapies
F
G
H
- Hakomi
- Holotropic Breathwork
- Holding therapy
- Humanistic psychology
- Human Givens
- Hypnotherapy
I
- Inner Relationship Focusing
- 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
M
- Marriage counseling
- MDMA-assisted psychotherapy
- Milieu therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction
- Mentalization-based treatment
- Metacognitive therapy
- Method of levels (MOL)
- Mode deactivation therapy (MDT)
- Morita therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multimodal therapy
- Multisystemic therapy
- Multitheoretical psychotherapy
- Music therapy
O
- Object relations psychotherapy
- Orthodox psychotherapy
P
- Parent–child interaction therapy
- 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
R
S
- Sandplay therapy
- Schema therapy
- Sensorimotor psychotherapy
- Sexual identity therapy
- Sex therapy
- Social therapy
- Solution focused brief therapy
- Somatic experiencing
- Somatic psychology
- Status dynamic psychotherapy
- Structural family therapy
- Supportive psychotherapy
- Systematic desensitization
- Systemic therapy
T
Y
- Yoga for therapeutic purposes
