This is an alphabetical list of psychotherapies.

See the main article psychotherapy

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a general term referring to any form of therapeutic interaction or treatment contracted between a trained professional and a client or patient; family, couple or group...

 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.

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• Acceptance and commitment therapy
  Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  Acceptance and commitment therapy or ACT is a cognitive–behavioral model of psychotherapy. It is an empirically-based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in different ways with commitment and behavior-change strategies, to increase psychological...
  
   (ACT)
• Adlerian
  Adlerian
  Pertaining to the theory and practice of Alfred Adler , whose school of psychoanalysis is called Individual Psychology . Central to the Adlerian approach is to see the personality as a whole and not as the mere net result of component forces. Thus the term individual psychology...
  
   therapy
• Adventure therapy
  Adventure therapy
  Adventure Therapy as a distinct and separate form of psychotherapy has only been prominent for less than 40 years. Influences from a variety of learning and psychological theories have contributed to the complex theoretical combination within adventure therapy . The underlying philosophy largely...
  
  
• Analytical psychology
  Analytical psychology
  Analytical psychology is the school of psychology originating from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. His theoretical orientation has been advanced by his students and other thinkers who followed in his tradition. Though they share similarities, analytical psychology is distinct from...
  
  
• Art therapy
  Art therapy
  Because of its dual origins in art and psychotherapy, art therapy definitions vary. They commonly either lean more toward the ART art-making process as therapeutic in and of itself, "art as therapy," or focus on the psychotherapeutic transference process between the therapist and the client who...
  
  
• Attack therapy
  Attack therapy
  Attack therapy is a controversial type of psychotherapy evolved from ventilation therapy. It involves highly confrontational interaction between the patient and a therapist, or between the patient and fellow patients during group therapy, in which the patient may be verbally abused, denounced, or...
  
  
• Attachment-based therapy (children)
  Attachment-based therapy (children)
  Attachment-based therapy is a phrase intended to apply to interventions or approaches based on attachment theory, originated by John Bowlby. These range from individual therapeutic approaches to public health programs to interventions specifically designed for foster carers...
  
  
• Attachment therapy
  Attachment Therapy
  Attachment therapy is the most commonly used term for a controversial category of alternative child mental health interventions intended to treat attachment disorders. The term generally includes accompanying parenting techniques...
  
  
• Attachment-based psychotherapy
  Attachment-based psychotherapy
  Attachment-based psychotherapy is a psychoanalytic psychotherapy that is informed by attachment theory. As a branch of relational psychoanalysis, attachment-based psychotherapy combines the epidemiological categories of attachment theory including the identification of the attachment styles...
  
  
• Autogenic training
  Autogenic training
  Autogenic training is a relaxation technique developed by the German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz and first published in 1932. The technique involves the daily practice of sessions that last around 15 minutes, usually in the morning, at lunch time, and in the evening. During each session,...
  
  

B

• Behavior modification
  Behavior modification
  Behavior modification is the use of empirically demonstrated behavior change techniques to increase or decrease the frequency of behaviors, such as altering an individual's behaviors and reactions to stimuli through positive and negative reinforcement of adaptive behavior and/or the reduction of...
  
  
• Behavior therapy
• Biodynamic psychotherapy
  Gerda Boyesen
  Gerda Boyesen is the founder of Biodynamic Psychology, a branch of Body Psychotherapy.-Life:...
  
  
• Bioenergetic analysis
  Bioenergetic analysis
  Bioenergetic Analysis is a form of body psychotherapy , based upon the work of Wilhelm Reich, but adding a number of innovations...
  
  
• Biofeedback
  Biofeedback
  Biofeedback is the process of becoming aware of various physiological functions using instruments that provide information on the activity of those same systems, with a goal of being able to manipulate them at will...
  
  
• Bionomic psychotherapy
• Body psychotherapy
  Body Psychotherapy
  Body psychotherapy, also referred to as body-oriented psychotherapy and somatic psychology, is a significant branch of psychotherapy, with origins in the work of Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud and particularly Wilhelm Reich....
  
  
• Brief therapy
  Brief therapy
  Brief psychotherapy or Brief therapy is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches to psychotherapy. It differs from other schools of therapy in that it emphasises a focus on a specific problem and direct intervention...
  
  

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• Classical Adlerian psychotherapy
  Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy
  Classical Adlerian individual psychotherapy, brief therapy, couple therapy, and family therapy follow parallel paths. Clients are encouraged to overcome their feelings of insecurity, develop deeper feelings of connectedness, and to redirect their striving for significance into more socially...
  
  
• Characteranalytic vegetotherapy
  Vegetotherapy
  Vegetotherapy is a form of Reichian psychotherapy that involves the physical manifestations of emotions. The basic and founding text of vegetotherapy is Wilhelm Reich's Psychischer Kontakt und vegetative Stroemung , later included in the enlarged edition of Reich's Character Analysis .- Practice...
  
  
• Chess therapy
  Chess Therapy
  Chess therapy is a form of psychotherapy that attempts to use chess games between the therapist and client or clients to form stronger connections between them towards a goal of confirmatory or alternate diagnosis and consequently, better healing. Its founder can be considered to be the Persian...
  
  
• Child psychotherapy
  Child psychotherapy
  For therapies based on attachment theory see Attachment based therapy .Mental health interventions for children vary with respect to the problem being addressed and to the age and other individual characteristics of the child...
  
  
• Client-centered psychotherapy
  Person-centered psychotherapy
  Person-centered therapy is also known as person-centered psychotherapy, person-centered counseling, client-centered therapy and Rogerian psychotherapy. PCT is a form of talk-psychotherapy developed by psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s...
  
  
• Co-counselling
  Co-counselling
  Co-counselling is a grassroots, low-cost method of personal change based on reciprocal peer counseling. It uses simple methods that can be seen as a refinement of "you tell me your problems and I'll tell you mine"...
  
  
• Cognitive analytic therapy
  Cognitive analytic therapy
  Cognitive Analytic Therapy is a form of psychological therapy initially developed in the United Kingdom by Anthony Ryle. This time-limited therapy was developed in the context of the UK's National Health Service with the aim of providing effective and affordable psychological treatment which could...
  
  
• Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)
• Coherence therapy
  Coherence therapy
  Coherence therapy is a system of psychotherapy based in the theory that symptoms of mood, thought and behavior are produced coherently according to the person's current models of reality, most of which are implicit and unconscious. It was founded by Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley in the 1990s...
  
  
• Collaborative therapy
• Compassion focused therapy
• Concentrative movement therapy
  Concentrative movement therapy
  Concentrative movement therapy is a psychotherapeutic method for group and individual therapy which is based on thought models stemming from psychodynamic psychotherapy and depth psychology...
  
  
• Contemplative psychotherapy
  Contemplative psychotherapy
  Contemplative Psychotherapy is a form of therapy started in the west by Trungpa Rinpoche. Like Jung, it uses religion to help the client ‘accept’ who they are. It criticizes western psychological tendencies to interpret mental pain as pathological...
  
  
• Conversational model
  Conversational Model
  The Conversational Model of psychotherapy was devised by the English psychiatrist Robert Hobson, and developed by the Australian psychiatrist Russell Meares...
  
  
• Conversion therapy
• Core process psychotherapy
  Core process psychotherapy
  Core process psychotherapy practises a Buddhist awareness as the centre of a healing relationship between client and psychotherapist. It is taught at the Karuna Institute which was founded in 1984 by Maura Sills and Franklyn Sills...
  
  

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• Dance therapy
  Dance therapy
  Dance therapy, or dance movement therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance for emotional, cognitive, social, behavioral and physical conditions. As a form of expressive therapy, DMT is founded on the basis that movement and emotion are directly related...
  
  
• Depth psychology
  Depth psychology
  Historically, depth psychology, from a German term , was coined by Eugen Bleuler to refer to psychoanalytic approaches to therapy and research that take the unconscious into account. The term has come to refer to the ongoing development of theories and therapies pioneered by Pierre Janet, William...
  
  
• Daseinsanalytic psychotherapy
• Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS)
• Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
• Dreamwork
  Dreamwork
  Dreamwork differs from classical dream interpretation in that the aim of dreamwork is to explore the various images and emotions that a dream presents and evokes, while not attempting to come up with a single, unique dream meaning. In this way the dream remains "alive" whereas if it has been...
  
  
• Drama therapy
  Drama therapy
  Drama Therapy is the use of theatre techniques to facilitate personal growth and promote mental health. Dramatherapy is used in a wide variety of settings, including hospitals, schools, mental health centers, prisons, and businesses...
  
  
• Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
  Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
  Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is a treatment approach for families that have children with symptoms of emotional disorders, including Complex Trauma and disorders of attachment. It was originally developed by psychologist Daniel Hughes as an intervention for children whose emotional distress...
  
   (DDP)

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• Ecological Counseling
  Ecological counseling
  Ecological Counseling offers an approach to the conceptualization of human issues that integrates personal and environmental factors through focusing on their interaction. By doing so, the widely divergent forces that converge through the development of a human life may be organized into a logical...
  
  
• Eidetic Therapy
• Emotional Therapy
• Emotionally Focused Therapy
  Emotionally Focused Therapy
  Emotionally focused therapy is a short term psychotherapy approach to working with couples and more recently with families. It is substantially based on the principles of emotion theory and attachment theory....
  
  
• Emotional Freedom Techniques
  Emotional Freedom Techniques
  thumb|300px|EFT-tapping pointsEmotional Freedom Technique is an alternative intervention technique, described by some proponents as "energy psychology". EFT has the goal of desensitization, and utilizes the tapping of acupuncture points while a client focuses on a specific issue...
  
   (EFT)
• Encounter groups
• Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)
  Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)
  - Etiotropic TMT : a Strategically Human Ontological Epistemology 1979-Extant :In that title, the phrase "Strategically Ontological" turns an apparent oxymoron into a two word summary of intent, purpose and methodology for Etiotropic TMT...
  
  
• Experiential Therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Existential therapy
  Existential therapy
  Existential psychotherapy is a philosophical method of therapy that operates on the belief that inner conflict within a person is due to that individual's confrontation with the givens of existence. These givens, as noted by Irvin D...
  
  
• Exposure and response prevention
• Expressive therapy
  Expressive therapy
  Expressive therapy, also known as expressive arts therapy or creative arts therapy, is the use of the creative arts as a form of therapy. Unlike traditional art expression, the process of creation is emphasized rather than the final product...
  
  

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• Family Constellations
  Family Constellations
  Family Constellations is an experiential process that aims to release and resolve profound tensions within and between people...
  
  
• Family therapy
  Family therapy
  Family therapy, also referred to as couple and family therapy, family systems therapy, and family counseling, is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of...
  
  
• Feminist therapy
  Feminist therapy
  Feminist therapy is a set of related therapies arising from what proponents see as a disparity between the origin of most psychological theories and the majority of people seeking counseling being female. It focuses on societal, cultural, and political causes and solutions to issues faced in the...
  
  
• Focusing
  Focusing
  In psychotherapy-related disciples, the term focusing is used to refer to the simple matter of holding a kind of open, non-judging attention to something which is directly experienced but is not yet in words. Focusing can be used to become clear on what one feels or wants...
  
  
• Freudian psychotherapy
  Psychoanalysis
  Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...
  
  
• Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
  Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
  Functional analytic psychotherapy is an approach to clinical psychotherapy that uses a radical behaviorist position informed by B.F. Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior....
  
   (FAP)
• Future oriented therapy
  Future oriented therapy
  The term future oriented psychotherapy is a term first introduced by Stanley Lesse and William Wolf. They stressed the need for all future psychiatrists, psychologists, social scientists, and political scientists to understand the relationships between sociodynamics and individual psychodynamics...
  
  

G

• Gestalt therapy
  Gestalt therapy
  Gestalt therapy is an existential/experiential form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility, and that focuses upon the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating...
  
  
• Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy
  Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy
  Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy is a method of psychotherapy based strictly on Gestalt psychology. It was developed by the German Gestalt psychologist and psychotherapist Hans-Jürgen P...
  
  
• Group Analysis
  Group Analysis
  Group analysis is a method of group psychotherapy originated by S. H. Foulkes in the 1940s. Group work was perhaps born of the need to deal economically and efficiently with a large body of returning soldiers with shared problems, but it soon developed into a much broader form in which individuals...
  
  
• Group therapy
  Group therapy
  Group psychotherapy or group therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which one or more therapists treat a small group of clients together as a group...
  
  
• Guided Imagery Therapy

H

• Hakomi
  Hakomi
  Hakomi therapy is a form of body-centered, somatic psychotherapy developed by Ron Kurtz in the 1970s and furthered by a group led by Kurtz in the 80s.- Approach and method:...
  
  
• Holistic psychotherapy
• Holotropic Breathwork
  Holotropic Breathwork
  Holotropic Breathwork is a practice that uses breathing and other elements to allow access to non-ordinary states for the purpose of self-exploration. It was developed by Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. and Christina Grof, Ph.D. . Holotropic breathing has some similarities to rebirthing-breathwork,...
  
  
• Holding therapy
  Attachment Therapy
  Attachment therapy is the most commonly used term for a controversial category of alternative child mental health interventions intended to treat attachment disorders. The term generally includes accompanying parenting techniques...
  
  
• Humanistic psychology
  Humanistic psychology
  Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective which rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, drawing on the work of early pioneers like Carl Rogers and the philosophies of existentialism and phenomenology...
  
  
• Human givens psychotherapy
  Human givens
  Human Givens approach or Human Givens Psychotherapy is form of psychology and psychotherapy developed by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell introduced in their 2003 book Human Givens: A new approach to emotional health and clear thinking...
  
  
• Hypnotherapy
  Hypnotherapy
  Hypnotherapy is a therapy that is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis.The word "hypnosis" is an abbreviation of James Braid's term "neuro-hypnotism", meaning "sleep of the nervous system"....
  
  

I

• Inner Space Techniques
• Integrative body psychotherapy
• Integral Eye Movement Technique
• Integral psychotherapy
• Integrative psychotherapy
  Integrative Psychotherapy
  Integrative psychotherapy may involve the fusion of different schools of psychotherapy. The word 'integrative' in Integrative psychotherapy may also refer to integrating the personality and making it cohesive, and to the bringing together of the "affective, cognitive, behavioral, and physiological...
  
  
• Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy
  Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy
  Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy is a form of short-term psychotherapy developed through empirical, video-recorded research by Habib Davanloo, MD...
  
  
• Internal Family Systems Model
  Internal Family Systems Model
  The Internal Family Systems Model is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D. It combines systems thinking with the view that mind is made up of relatively discrete subpersonalities each with its own viewpoint and qualities...
  
  
• Internet based psychotherapy
• Interpersonal psychoanalysis
  Interpersonal psychoanalysis
  Interpersonal psychoanalysis is based on the theories of Harry Stack Sullivan , an American psychiatrist, who believed that the details of a patient's interpersonal interactions with others can provide insight into the causes and cures of mental disorder.-Selective inattention:Sullivan proposed...
  
  
• Interpersonal psychotherapy
  Interpersonal psychotherapy
  Interpersonal Psychotherapy is a time-limited psychotherapy that focuses on the interpersonal context and on building interpersonal skills. IPT is based on the belief that interpersonal factors may contribute heavily to psychological problems. It is commonly distinguished from other forms of...
  
  

M

• Marriage counseling
• Milieu Therapy
  Integrative milieu model
  The integrative milieu model, developed by Kevin F. McCready, is an alternative treatment regime to the medical model of psychiatry for treating people suffering from psychological distress....
  
  
• Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
  Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
  Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is psychological therapy which blends features of cognitive therapy with mindfulness techniques of Buddhism. MBCT involves accepting thoughts and feelings without judgement rather than trying to push them out of consciousness, with a goal of correcting...
  
  
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
  Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
  Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is psychological therapy which blends features of cognitive therapy with mindfulness techniques of Buddhism. MBCT involves accepting thoughts and feelings without judgement rather than trying to push them out of consciousness, with a goal of correcting...
  
   (MBSR)
• Mentalization based treatment
  Mentalization based treatment
  Mentalization-based treatment is an innovative form of psychodynamic psychotherapy, developed and manualised by Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman. MBT has been designed for individuals with borderline personality disorder , who suffer from disorganised attachment and allegedly failed to develop a...
  
   (MBT)
• Method of Levels
  Method of Levels
  The Method of Levels is a cognitive approach to psychotherapy based on perceptual control theory . Using MOL, the therapist works with the patient to resolve conflicts by helping the patient shift his or her awareness to higher levels of perception in order to allow reorganization to take...
  
   (MOL)
• Morita Therapy
  Morita therapy
  Morita Therapy is a purpose-centered, response oriented therapy from Japan, created in the 1930s by Dr. Shoma Morita.-Background:Dr Shoma Morita was a psychiatrist and department chair at Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo...
  
  
• Motivational Interviewing
  Motivational interviewing
  Motivational interviewing refers to a counseling approach in part developed by clinical psychologists Professor William R Miller, Ph.D. and Professor Stephen Rollnick, Ph.D. The concept of motivational interviewing evolved from experience in the treatment of problem drinkers, and was first...
  
  
• Multimodal Therapy
  Multimodal Therapy
  Multimodal therapy is approach to psychotherapy founded by Arnold Lazarus. It is based on the idea that humans are biological beings that think, feel, act, sense, imagine, and interact; and that each of these "modalities" should be addressed in psychological treatment...
  
  
• Multitheoretical Psychotherapy
  Multitheoretical Psychotherapy
  Multitheoretical psychotherapy is a new approach to integrative psychotherapy developed by Jeff E. Brooks-Harris and his colleagues at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...
  
  
• Music therapy
  Music therapy
  Music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of an interpersonal process in which a trained music therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients to improve or maintain their...
  
  

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• Narrative Therapy
  Narrative therapy
  Narrative Therapy is a form of psychotherapy using narrative. It was initially developed during the 1970s and 1980s, largely by Australian Michael White and his friend and colleague, David Epston, of New Zealand....
  
  
• Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy (Note: This is not an alternative name for Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
• Nonviolent Communication
  Nonviolent communication
  Nonviolent Communication is a communication process developed by Marshall Rosenberg beginning in the 1960s. NVC often functions as a conflict resolution process...
  
  

O

• Object Relations Psychotherapy
• Orgonomy
• Orthodox Christian Psychotherapy
  Orthodox Christian Psychotherapy
  Orthodox Christian psychotherapy is a term that refers to the cure of the whole human being, body and soul. With its methods man can cope successfully with his thoughts and thus solve his problems...
  
  

P

• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
• Pastoral counseling/therapy
  Pastoral counseling
  Pastoral counseling is a branch of counseling in which psychologically trained ministers, rabbis, priests and other persons provide therapy services...
  
  
• Person-centered (or Client-Centered or Rogerian) psychotherapy
  Person-centered psychotherapy
  Person-centered therapy is also known as person-centered psychotherapy, person-centered counseling, client-centered therapy and Rogerian psychotherapy. PCT is a form of talk-psychotherapy developed by psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s...
  
  
• Personal construct psychology (PCP)
• Play therapy
  Play therapy
  Play therapy is generally employed with children aged 3 through 11 and provides a way for them to express their experiences and feelings through a natural, self-guided, self-healing process...
  
  
• Positive psychology
  Positive psychology
  Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology whose purpose was summed up in 1998 by Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "We believe that a psychology of positive human functioning will arise, which achieves a scientific understanding and effective interventions to build thriving in...
  
  
• Postural Integration
• Primal therapy
  Primal therapy
  Primal therapy is a trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov, who argues that neurosis is caused by the repressed pain of childhood trauma. Janov argues that repressed pain can be sequentially brought to conscious awareness and resolved through re-experiencing the incident and fully...
  
  
• Primal integration
  Primal integration
  Primal Integration is a form of personal growth work first formulated by the Canadian Bill Swartley in the mid 1970s. Unlike many other approaches known as psychotherapy, it puts the emphasis on an individual's self directed exploration of their own psyche assisted by facilitators who serve the...
  
  
• Process Oriented Psychology
  Process Oriented Psychology
  Process oriented psychology refers to a body of theory and practice that encompasses a broad range of psychotherapeutic, personal growth, and group process applications. It is more commonly called "process work" in the United States, the longer name being used in Europe and Asia...
  
  
• Process Psychology
  Process psychology
  Process Psychology is a branch of psychotherapeutic psychology which was derived from Process Philosophy as developed by Alfred North Whitehead. It bears a similar name to Process Oriented Psychology as developed by Arnold Mindell and Amy Mindell but is different in theoretical foundations and...
  
  
• Prolonged Exposure Therapy
  Prolonged exposure therapy
  Prolonged exposure therapy is a form of behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy designed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, characterized by re-experiencing the traumatic event through remembering it and engaging with, rather than avoiding, reminders of the trauma...
  
  
• Provocative Therapy
• Psychedelic psychotherapy
  Psychedelic psychotherapy
  Psychedelic therapy refers to therapeutic practices involving the use of psychedelic drugs, particularly serotonergic psychedelics such as ergine, LSD, psilocin and DMT...
  
  
• Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
  Psychoanalysis
  Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...
  
  
• Psychoanalysis
  Psychoanalysis
  Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...
  
  
• Psychodrama
  Psychodrama
  Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy in which clients utilize spontaneous dramatization, role playing and dramatic self-presentation to investigate and gain insight into their lives. Developed by Jacob L. Moreno, M.D. psychodrama includes elements of theater, often conducted on a stage where...
  
  
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy
  Psychodynamic psychotherapy
  Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a form of depth psychology, the primary focus of which is to reveal the unconscious content of a client's psyche in an effort to alleviate psychic tension. In this way, it is similar to psychoanalysis. It also relies on the interpersonal relationship between client...
  
  
• Psychophonetics
• Psychosynthesis
  Psychosynthesis
  Psychosynthesis is an approach to psychology that was developed by Roberto Assagioli, M.D. He compared psychosynthesis to the prevailing thinking of the day, contrasting psychosynthesis for example with Existential psychology, but unlike the latter considered loneliness not to be "either ultimate...
  
  
• Psychosystems Analysis
• Pulsing (bodywork)
  Pulsing (bodywork)
  Pulsing is a rhythmic, movement-based somatic therapy that can be classed as a form of post-Reichian bodywork. It uses a very gentle and nurturing approach to increase body awareness and sensitivity and to connect to the body's natural rhythms.- History :...
  
  

R

• Radix therapy
• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
  Rational emotive behavior therapy
  Rational emotive behavior therapy , previously called rational therapy and rational emotive therapy, is a comprehensive, active-directive, philosophically and empirically based psychotherapy which focuses on resolving emotional and behavioral problems and disturbances and enabling people to lead...
  
   (REBT)
• Rational Living Therapy
  Rational Living Therapy
  Rational Living Therapy is a form of Cognitive behavioral therapy developed by Aldo R. Pucci, Psy.D., DCBT the current president of the National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists and founder of the Rational Living Therapy Institute....
  
   (RLT)
• Reality therapy
  Reality Therapy
  Reality therapy is an approach to psychotherapy and counseling. It was developed by the psychiatrist Dr. William Glasser in 1965. Reality therapy is considered a cognitive-behavioural approach to treatment ....
  
  
• Rebirthing-Breathwork
  Rebirthing-Breathwork
  Rebirthing-breathwork is a breathing technique that claims to heal suppressed emotions such as anger, fear, sadness, etc. It shares a common belief with various other therapies called rebirthing, with both groups believing that human birth is a traumatic event and that reviewing or revisiting this...
  
  
• Recovered Memory Therapy
  Recovered memory therapy
  Recovered-memory therapy is a term coined by affiliates of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation in the early 1990s, to refer what they described as a range of psychotherapy methods based on recalling memories of abuse that had previously been forgotten by the patient...
  
  
• Re-evaluation Counseling
  Re-evaluation Counseling
  Re-evaluation Counseling or RC is an organization founded by Harvey Jackins in the 1950s and led by him until his death in 1999. It introduced a procedure called "co-counseling", which Jackins said was a new and effective method of helping people and bringing about social reform. RC teaches...
  
  
• Reichian psychotherapy
  Wilhelm Reich
  Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry...
  
  
• Reiki
  Reiki
  is a spiritual practice developed in 1922 by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui. The teaching was continued and adapted by various teachers. It uses a technique commonly called palm healing as a form of complementary and alternative medicine and is sometimes classified as oriental medicine by some...
  
  
• Relationship counseling
  Relationship counseling
  Relationship counseling is the process of counseling the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress...
  
  
• Relational-cultural therapy
  Relational-cultural therapy
  Relational-cultural theory, and by extension, relational-cultural therapy stems from the work of Jean Baker Miller, M.D. Often, relational-cultural theory is aligned with the Feminist and or Multicultural Movements in Psychology...
  
  
• Relational Empowerment Therapy
• Reprogramming
  Reprogramming
  Reprogramming refers to erasure and remodeling of epigenetic marks, such as DNA methylation, during mammalian development. After fertilization some cells of the newly formed embryo migrate to the germinal ridge and will eventually become the germ cells...
  
  
• Rogerian psychotherapy
• Rolfing
  Rolfing
  Rolfing is a therapy system created by The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration and is a system whereby the alleged manipulation of the fasciae by specific methods is theorized to yield therapeutic benefit....
  
  
• Rubenfeld Synergy

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• Schema Therapy
  Schema Therapy
  Schema Therapy was developed by Dr. Jeffrey E. Young for use in treatment of personality disorders and chronic Axis I disorders, such as when patients fail to respond or relapse after having been through other therapies...
  
  
• Self-relations Psychotherapy or Sponsorship
• Sensorimotor psychotherapy
  Sensorimotor psychotherapy
  Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy that by using modifications directly at the most basic sensorimotor level as a primary entry point in processing trauma, aims to resolve the limitations of behavior, thinking and feeling caused by trauma.It was developed by Pat Ogden, Ph.D...
  
  
• Sexual Identity Therapy
  Sexual Identity Therapy
  Sexual Identity Therapy is a framework to "aid mental health practitioners in helping people arrive at a healthy and personally acceptable resolution of sexual identity and value conflicts." It was invented by Warren Throckmorton and Mark Yarhouse, professors at small conservative evangelical...
  
  
• SHEN Therapy
• Social therapy
  Social Therapy
  Social Therapy is an activity-theoretic practice developed outside of academia at the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy in New York. Its primary methodologists are cofounders of the East Side Institute, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman...
  
  
• Solution focused brief therapy
  Solution focused brief therapy
  Solution focused brief therapy , often referred to as simply 'solution focused therapy' or 'brief therapy', is a type of talking therapy that is based upon social constructionist philosophy. It focuses on what clients want to achieve through therapy rather than on the problem that made them seek help...
  
  
• Somatic psychology
  Somatic Psychology
  Somatic psychology is an interdisciplinary field involving the study of the body, somatic experience, and the embodied self, including therapeutic and holistic approaches to body. The word somatic comes from the ancient Greek somat . The word psychology comes from the ancient Greek psyche and logia...
  
  
• Sophia analysis
• Status dynamic psychotherapy
  Status dynamic psychotherapy
  Status Dynamic Psychotherapy[1] is an approach to psychotherapy that was created by Peter G. Ossorio at the University of Colorado in the late 1960s as part of a larger system known as "Descriptive Psychology," and that has subsequently been developed by other practitioners.[2][3][4] Its...
  
  
• Symbolic-Experiential Therapy
• Systematic desensitization
  Systematic desensitization
  Systematic desensitization is a type of behavioral therapy used in the field of psychology to help effectively overcome phobias and other anxiety disorders. More specifically, it is a type of Pavlovian therapy / classical conditioning therapy developed by a South African psychiatrist, Joseph Wolpe...
  
  
• Systematic Treatment Selection (STS)
• Systemic Constellations
  Systemic Constellations
  The Systemic Constellation process is a trans-generational, phenomenological, therapeutic intervention with roots in family systems therapy , existential-phenomenology , and the ancestor reverence of the South African Zulus...
  
  
• Systemic therapy
  Systemic Therapy
  Systemic therapy is a form of psychotherapy which seeks to address people not on individual level, as had been the focus of earlier forms of therapy, but as people in relationship, dealing with the interactions of groups and their interactional patterns and dynamics.- History :Systemic therapy has...
  
  

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• T Groups
  T-groups
  A T-group or training group is a form of group psychotherapy where participants themselves learn about themselves through their interaction with each other...
  
  
• Thought Field Therapy
  Thought Field Therapy
  Thought Field Therapy, or TFT, is a fringe psychological treatment developed by an American psychologist, Roger Callahan. Its proponents say that it can heal a variety of mental and physical ailments through specialized "tapping" with the fingers at meridian points on the upper body and hands...
  
  
• Transactional Analysis
  Transactional analysis
  Transactional analysis, commonly known as TA to its adherents, is an integrative approach to the theory of psychology and psychotherapy. It is described as integrative because it has elements of psychoanalytic, humanist and cognitive approaches...
  
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• Transactional Psychotherapy (TP)
• Transference Focused Psychotherapy
  Transference focused psychotherapy
  Transference Focused Psychotherapy , is a highly structured, twice-weekly modified psychodynamic treatment based on Otto Kernberg’s object relations model of borderline personality disorder...
  
  
• Transpersonal psychology
  Transpersonal psychology
  Transpersonal psychology is a form of psychology that studies the transpersonal, self-transcendent or spiritual aspects of the human experience....
  
  
• Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)
  Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)
  - Etiotropic TMT : a Strategically Human Ontological Epistemology 1979-Extant :In that title, the phrase "Strategically Ontological" turns an apparent oxymoron into a two word summary of intent, purpose and methodology for Etiotropic TMT...
  
  
• Traumatic incident reduction
• Twelve-step program
  Twelve-step program
  A Twelve-Step Program is a set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems...
  
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