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.

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.

A

 * 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

B

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

C

 * 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 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

D

 * 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

E

 * 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

F

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

G

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

H

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

I

 * 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

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
 * 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

N

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

O

 * Object relations psychotherapy
 * Online counseling
 * Orthodox psychotherapy

P

 * 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)

R

 * 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

S

 * 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

 * 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

V

 * Vegetotherapy

W

 * Wilderness therapy
 * Writing therapy

Y

 * Yoga for therapeutic purposes