List of psychotherapies

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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.

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 Adlerian therapy Analytical psychology Art Therapy Autogenic training Behavior therapy Biodynamic psychotherapy Bioenergetic analysis Bionomic psychotherapy Body Mind Psychotherapy Body-Oriented Psychotherapy Body psychotherapy Brief therapy Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy Client-centered psychotherapy/counselling Co-Counselling Cognitive analytic psychotherapy Cognitive behavioural psychotherapy Concentrative movement therapy Contemplative Psychotherapy Conversational Model (The) Core Energetics Core process psychotherapy Daseins analytic psychotherapy Dance therapy Depth Psychology Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy Dialectical behavior therapy Dreamwork Drama therapy Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Encounter groups Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Existential therapy Expressive therapy Family systems therapy Feminist therapy Focusing Freudian psychotherapy Gestalt therapy Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy Group therapy Hakomi Holotropic Breathwork Humanistic psychology Human givens psychotherapy Hypnotherapy IBP Integrative Body Psychotherapy Integrative Psychotherapy Internal Family Systems Model Interpersonal therapy Jungian psychotherapy Lifespan Integration

Logotherapy Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Method of Levels (MOL) The Moving Cycle Multicultural Counseling and Therapy (MCT) Multimodal Therapy Music therapy Narrative Therapy Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) Object relations theory Orgonomy Pastoral counselling/therapy Personal construct psychology (PCP) Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) Play therapy Positive psychotherapy Postural Integration Primal integration Primal therapy Process Oriented Psychology Provocative Therapy Psychedelic psychotherapy Psychoanalysis Psychodrama Psychodynamic psychotherapy Psychological astrology Psycho-organic analysis Psychosynthesis Psychosystems Analysis Pulsing (bodywork) Radix therapy Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) Rebirthing-Breathwork Re-evaluation Counseling Relational-Cultural Therapy Relationship Counseling Reprogramming Reality therapy Reichian psychotherapy Person-centred (or Rogerian) psychotherapy Rolfing Rubenfeld Synergy Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Social Therapy Solution focused brief therapy Somatic Psychology Sophia analysis Self Relationship (or Sponsorship) Systemic Therapy Systematic desensitization SHEN Therapy T Groups Thought Field Therapy Transactional analysis (TA) Transpersonal psychology Twelve-step programs Unitive Psychotherapy Vegetotherapy