List of psychotherapies
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
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Adlerian therapy
- Adventure therapy
- Analytical psychology
- Animal-assisted therapy
- Art therapy
- Attack therapy
- Attachment-based psychotherapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Attachment therapy
- Autogenic training
- Aversion therapy
B
- Behavioral activation
- Behavior modification
- Behavior therapy
- Bibliotherapy
- Biodynamic psychotherapy
- Bioenergetic analysis
- Biofeedback
- Body psychotherapy
- Brief psychotherapy
C
- Classical Adlerian psychotherapy
- Chess therapy
- Child psychotherapy
- Client-centered psychotherapy
- Co-counselling
- Cognitive analytic therapy
- Cognitive therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Coherence therapy
- Collaborative therapy
- Compassion focused therapy
- Concentrative movement therapy
- Contemplative psychotherapy
- Contextual therapy
- Counting method
- Conversational model
- Conversion therapy
D
- Dance therapy or dance movement therapy
- Depth psychology
- Daseinsanalysis
- Developmental needs meeting strategy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Drama therapy
- Dreamwork
- Dyadic developmental psychotherapy
- Dynamic deconstructive psychotherapy
E
- Eclectic psychotherapy
- Ecological counseling
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Emotional Freedom Techniques
- Encounter groups
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
- Existential therapy
- Exposure and response prevention
- Expressive therapies
F
- Family Constellations
- Family therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Focusing
- Freudian psychotherapy
- Functional analytic psychotherapy
- Future-oriented therapy
G
- Gestalt therapy
- Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy
- Grief counseling
- Group analysis
- Group therapy
- Guided affective imagery
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
J
- Journal therapy
- Jungian psychotherapy
L
- Logic-based therapy
- Logotherapy
M
- Marriage counseling
- MDMA-assisted psychotherapy
- Milieu therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction
- Mentalization-based treatment
- Metacognitive therapy
- Method of levels
- Mode deactivation therapy
- Morita therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multimodal therapy
- Multisystemic therapy
- Multitheoretical psychotherapy
- Music therapy
N
- Narrative therapy
- Nonviolent Communication
- Nouthetic counseling
- Nude psychotherapy
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
- Prolonged exposure therapy
- Provocative therapy
- Psychedelic therapy
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychodrama
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Psychosynthesis
- Psychotherapy and social action model
- Pulsing
R
- Rational emotive behavior therapy
- Rational living therapy
- Reality therapy
- Rebirthing-breathwork
- Recovered-memory therapy
- Reichian therapy
- Relationship counseling
- Relational-cultural therapy
- Remote therapy
- Rogerian psychotherapy
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
- T-groups
- Therapeutic community
- Thought Field Therapy
- Transactional analysis
- Transference focused psychotherapy
- Transpersonal psychology
- Transtheoretical model
- Twelve-step programs
V
- Vegetotherapy
W
- Wilderness therapy
- Writing therapy
Y
- Yoga for therapeutic purposes