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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

• Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
• Adlerian therapy
• Adventure therapy
• Analytical psychology
• Art therapy
• Attack therapy
• Attachment-based therapy (children)
• Attachment therapy
• Attachment-based psychotherapy
• Autogenic training

B

• Behavior modification
• Behavior therapy
• Biodynamic psychotherapy
• Bioenergetic analysis
• Biofeedback
• Bionomic psychotherapy
• Body psychotherapy
• Brief therapy

C

• Classical Adlerian psychotherapy
• Characteranalytic vegetotherapy
• Chess therapy
• Child psychotherapy
• Client-centered psychotherapy
• Co-counselling
• Cognitive analytic therapy
• Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)
• Coherence therapy
• Collaborative therapy
• Compassion focused therapy
• Concentrative movement therapy
• Contemplative psychotherapy
• Conversational model
• Conversion therapy
• Core process psychotherapy

D

• Dance therapy
• Depth psychology
• Daseinsanalytic psychotherapy
• Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS)
• Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
• Dreamwork
• Drama therapy
• Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)

E

• Ecological Counseling
• Eidetic Therapy
• Emotional Therapy
• Emotionally Focused Therapy
• Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
• Encounter groups
• Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)
• Experiential Therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitisation 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 Imagery Therapy

H

• Hakomi
• Holistic psychotherapy
• Holotropic Breathwork
• Holding therapy
• Humanistic psychology
• Human givens psychotherapy
• Hypnotherapy

I

• Inner Space Techniques
• Integrative body psychotherapy
• Integral Eye Movement Technique
• Integral psychotherapy
• Integrative psychotherapy
• Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy
• Internal Family Systems Model
• Internet based psychotherapy
• Interpersonal psychoanalysis
• Interpersonal psychotherapy

J

• Jungian psychotherapy

K

L

• Logotherapy

M

• Marriage counseling
• Milieu Therapy
• Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
• Mentalization based treatment (MBT)
• Method of Levels (MOL)
• Morita Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Multimodal Therapy
• Multitheoretical Psychotherapy
• Music therapy

N

• Narrative Therapy
• Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy (Note: This is not an alternative name for Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
• Nonviolent Communication

O

• Object Relations Psychotherapy
• Orgonomy
• Orthodox Christian Psychotherapy

P

• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
• Pastoral counseling/therapy
• Person-centered (or Client-Centered or Rogerian) psychotherapy
• Personal construct psychology (PCP)
• Play therapy
• Positive psychology
• Postural Integration
• Primal therapy
• Primal integration
• Process Oriented Psychology
• Process Psychology
• Prolonged Exposure Therapy
• Provocative Therapy
• Psychedelic psychotherapy
• Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychodrama
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Psychophonetics
• Psychosynthesis
• Psychosystems Analysis
• Pulsing (bodywork)

Q

R

• Radix therapy
• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
• Rational Living Therapy (RLT)
• Reality therapy
• Rebirthing-Breathwork
• Recovered Memory Therapy
• Re-evaluation Counseling
• Reichian psychotherapy
• Reiki
• Relationship counseling
• Relational-cultural therapy
• Relational Empowerment Therapy
• Reprogramming
• Rogerian psychotherapy
• Rolfing
• Rubenfeld Synergy

S

• Schema Therapy
• Self-relations Psychotherapy or Sponsorship
• Sensorimotor psychotherapy
• Sexual Identity Therapy
• SHEN Therapy
• Social therapy
• Solution focused brief therapy
• Somatic psychology
• Sophia analysis
• Status dynamic psychotherapy
• Symbolic-Experiential Therapy
• Systematic desensitization
• Systematic Treatment Selection (STS)
• Systemic Constellations
• Systemic therapy

T

• T Groups
• Thought Field Therapy
• Transactional Analysis (TA)
• Transactional Psychotherapy (TP)
• Transference Focused Psychotherapy
• Transpersonal psychology
• Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)
• Traumatic incident reduction
• Twelve-step programs

U

• Unitive Psychotherapy

V

• Vegetotherapy

W

• Wilderness therapy

X

Y

Z

See also

• List of therapies