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.
A
- Abreaction therapy
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
- Adlerian therapy
- Adventure therapy
- Analytical psychology
- Art therapy
- Attack therapy
- Attachment-based psychotherapy
- Attachment-based therapy (children)
- Attachment therapy
- Autogenic training
B
- Behavior modification
- Behavior therapy
- 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 behavior therapy (CBT)
- Coherence therapy
- Collaborative therapy
- Compassion focused therapy (CFT)
- Concentrative movement therapy
- Contemplative psychotherapy
- Contextual therapy
- Conversational model
- Conversion therapy
- Core process psychotherapy
D
- Dance therapy
- Depth psychology
- Daseinsanalysis
- Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS)
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Drama therapy
- Dreamwork
- Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
E
- 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 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 affective imagery
H
I
- Inner Relationship Focusing
- Integrative body psychotherapy
- Integral psychotherapy
- Integrative psychotherapy
- Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy
- Internal Family Systems Model
- Interpersonal psychoanalysis
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
J
L
M
- Marriage counseling
- Milieu therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction
- Mentalization-based treatment
- Method of levels (MOL)
- Mode Deactivation Therapy (MDT)
- Morita therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multimodal therapy
- Multitheoretical psychotherapy
- Music therapy
N
O
P
- Parent–child interaction therapy
- Parent management training
- Pastoral counseling
- Person-centered therapy
- Play therapy
- Positive psychology
- Positive psychotherapy
- Postural Integration
- Primal therapy
- Primal Integration
- Process oriented psychology
- Process psychology
- Prolonged exposure therapy
- Provocative therapy
- Psychedelic therapy
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychodrama
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Psychosynthesis
- Pulsing
R
- Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
- Rational living therapy (RLT)
- Reality therapy
- Rebirthing-breathwork
- Recovered-memory therapy
- Re-evaluation Counseling
- Reichian psychotherapy
- Relational and Compassionate Psychotherapy
- Relationship counseling
- Relational-cultural therapy
- Remote therapy
- Rogerian psychotherapy
S
- Sandplay therapy
- Schema therapy
- Self-relations psychotherapy
- Sensorimotor psychotherapy
- Sexual Identity Therapy
- Sex therapy
- Social therapy
- Solution focused brief therapy
- Somatic Experiencing
- Somatic psychology
- Status dynamic psychotherapy
- Supportive psychotherapy
- Systematic desensitization
- Systemic therapy
T
- T-groups
- Therapeutic community
- Thought Field Therapy
- Transactional analysis
- Transference focused psychotherapy
- Transpersonal psychology
- Transtheoretical model (TTM or "stages of change")
- Twelve-step programs