Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Explores connections among thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses cognitive and behavioral strategies to support change.
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There are many ways therapy can work. Explore all 27, or choose a way to narrow what you see.
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Therapies don’t always fit into just one group. These groupings are here to make exploring easier, and you’ll find connections between them as you browse.
Thoughts, behaviors & change
Approaches that may help you understand how thoughts, behaviors, skills, motivation, or change interact.
Mindfulness, acceptance & values
Approaches that may emphasize mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based living.
Patterns, meaning & self-understanding
Approaches that may explore patterns, past experiences, relationships and meaning to support greater self-understanding.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Explores unconscious patterns, past experiences, relationships, and meaning to deepen self-understanding.
Internal Family Systems Therapy
A psychotherapy model that explores different internal “parts” and their relationships within the person.
Narrative Therapy
Helps people explore the stories shaping their lives while viewing the person as separate from the problems they face.
Person-Centered Therapy
A less directive approach emphasizing empathy, acceptance, authenticity, and the client’s capacity for self-understanding and growth.
Relationships & systems
Approaches that may focus on relationships, communication, and the systems people are part of.
Family Systems Therapy
Explores difficulties in the context of family relationships, patterns, and the ways members of a family affect one another.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
A structured couples therapy approach focused on friendship, conflict management, intimacy, and shared meaning.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
A structured, time-limited psychotherapy focused on current relationships, communication, and interpersonal difficulties.
Creative & expressive therapies
Approaches and therapeutic disciplines that can use creating, play, movement, music, performance, or other forms of expression as part of the work.
Art Therapy
A mental health profession using active art-making and the creative process within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
Music Therapy
Uses music interventions within a therapeutic relationship to work toward individualized goals with a credentialed music therapist.
Dance/Movement Therapy
Uses movement and embodied communication psychotherapeutically as part of the therapeutic process.
Drama Therapy
Uses drama and theatre processes intentionally within therapy and can involve storytelling, enactment, role work, and other active experiences.
Expressive Arts Therapy
Integrates multiple art forms, such as visual art, movement, music, drama, and writing, through an intermodal therapeutic approach.
Play Therapy
Uses play within a therapeutic relationship and theoretical model as a primary way of engaging in therapeutic work, particularly with children.
Body & somatic approaches
Approaches that may focus on the body, nervous system, and physical experience as part of the therapeutic work.
Somatic Therapy
A broad term for therapeutic approaches that bring attention to bodily sensations, movement, and the relationship between physical and emotional experience.
Somatic Experiencing
A body-oriented approach developed for trauma and stress that works with bodily sensations and physiological responses as part of the therapeutic process.
NeuroAffective Relational Model
An approach developed for complex and developmental trauma that explores patterns of connection and disconnection across emotions, relationships, and bodily experience.
Focused treatments
More specifically defined treatments that are often used for particular concerns, and have a more structured approach.
Exposure and Response Prevention
A form of cognitive behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder that involves gradually approaching feared experiences while reducing compulsive responses.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
A trauma-focused psychotherapy that involves processing trauma memories while attending to bilateral stimulation such as eye movements, sounds, or tapping.
Cognitive Processing Therapy
A trauma-focused psychotherapy that helps people examine and change thoughts and beliefs affected by trauma.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy
A trauma-focused psychotherapy that gradually approaches trauma-related memories, feelings, and situations that have been avoided.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
A structured treatment for children and adolescents who have experienced trauma that includes work with the young person and, when appropriate, a parent or caregiver.
Family-Based Treatment
A specialized treatment for adolescent eating disorders that actively involves parents or caregivers in supporting recovery.
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