List of psychotherapies

This is an alphabetical List of Psychotherapies. It is an incomplete list and new or minor approaches are still being added.

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.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Adlerian therapy Analytical psychology Art Therapy Attack therapy Attachment Therapy Attachment-based psychotherapy Autogenic training Behavior modification Behavior therapy Biodynamic psychotherapy Bioenergetic analysis Biofeedback Bionomic psychotherapy Body Mind Psychotherapy Body psychotherapy Brief therapy Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy Characteranalytic vegetotherapy Child psychotherapy Child therapy Client-centered psychotherapy/counselling Co-Counselling Cognitive analytic psychotherapy Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) Coherence therapy Collaborative therapy (Collaborative Language Systems) Concentrative movement therapy Contemplative Psychotherapy Control Mastery Conversational Model (The) Core Energetics Core process psychotherapy Dance therapy Depth Psychology Daseins analytic psychotherapy Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS) Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Dreamwork Drama therapy Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) Ecological Counseling Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Encounter groups Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Existential therapy Exposure and response prevention Expressive therapy Family Constellations Family therapy Feminist therapy Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) Focusing Freudian psychotherapy Gestalt therapy Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy Group Analysis Group therapy Hakomi Holistic psychotherapy Holotropic Breathwork Holding therapy Humanistic psychology Human givens psychotherapy Hypnotherapy IBP Integrative Body Psychotherapy Integral psychotherapy Integrative Psychotherapy Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy Internal Family Systems Model Internet based psychotherapy Interpersonal psychoanalysis Interpersonal psychotherapy Jungian psychotherapy

Logotherapy Marriage counseling Milieu Therapy Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Mentalization based treatment (MBT) Method of Levels (MOL) Morita Therapy Multimodal Therapy Multitheoretical Psychotherapy Music therapy Narrative Therapy Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) Nonviolent Communication Object Relations Psychotherapy Orgonomy Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Pastoral counseling/therapy Person-centered (or Client-Centered or Rogerian) psychotherapy Personal construct psychology (PCP) Play therapy Positive psychology Positive psychotherapy Postural Integration Primal therapy Primal integration Process Oriented Psychology Provocative Therapy Psychedelic psychotherapy Psychoanalytic psychotherapy Psychoanalysis Psychodrama Psychodynamic psychotherapy Psychological astrology Psychosynthesis Psychosystems Analysis Pulsing (bodywork) Radix therapy Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Rational Living Therapy (RLT) Rebirthing-Breathwork Recovered Memory Therapy Re-evaluation Counseling Reiki Relationship counseling Relational-Cultural Therapy Relational Empowerment Therapy Reprogramming Reality therapy Rubenfeld Synergy Reichian psychotherapy Rolfing Self-relations Psychotherapy (or Sponsorship) Sensorimotor Psychotherapy SHEN Therapy Social Therapy Solution focused brief therapy Somatic Psychology Sophia analysis Status dynamic psychotherapy Systematic desensitization Systematic Treatment Selection (STS) Systemic Constellations Systemic Therapy T Groups Thought Field Therapy Transactional Analysis (TA) Transactional Psychotherapy (TP) Transpersonal psychology Twelve-step programs Unitive Psychotherapy Vegetotherapy "Periodic Table of Human Sciences" in Tinbergen's four questions