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.
Behavioral medicine • Biological psychiatry • Child and adolescent psychiatry • Cross-cultural psychiatry • Emergency psychiatry • Forensic psychiatry • Liaison psychiatry • Neuropsychiatry • Social psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology • American Psychiatric Association • Royal College of Psychiatrists
Neuroimaging • Neurophysiology • Psychiatrist • Psychopharmacology • Psychosurgery • Psychotherapy
List of psychiatrists • List of figures in psychiatry • List of physicians • List of psychiatric medications • List of psychiatric medications by condition treated • List of neurological disorders • List of psychotherapies• List of counseling topics
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Adlerian therapy
Analytical psychology
Art Therapy
Attack therapy
Attachment Therapy
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
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
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)
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Encounter groups
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
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
Humanistic psychology
Human givens psychotherapy
Hypnotherapy
IBP Integrative Body Psychotherapy
Integral psychotherapy
Integrative Psychotherapy
Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy
Internal Family Systems Model
Interpersonal psychotherapy
Jungian psychotherapy
List of counseling topics
Logotherapy
Marriage counseling
Milieu Therapy
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
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 integration
Primal therapy
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
Re-evaluation Counseling
Reiki
Relationship counseling
Relational-Cultural Therapy
Reprogramming
Reality therapy
Rubenfeld Synergy
Reichian psychotherapy
Rolfing
Self Relationship (or Sponsorship)
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
SHEN Therapy
Social Therapy
Solution focused brief therapy
Somatic Psychology
Sophia analysis
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