This is an alphabetical list of psychotherapies. 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 were created. All of these face continuous change in popularity, methods, and effectiveness. Sometimes they are self-administered, either individually, in pairs, small groups or larger groups. However, a professional practitioner will usually 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. This list is a mixture of psychotherapy articles that cover topics at various levels of abstraction, such as theoretical frameworks, specific therapy packages, and individual techniques. A Abreaction therapy Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) Adlerian therapy Adventure therapy Analytical psychology Animal-assisted therapy Art therapy Association splitting Attack therapy Attachment-based psychotherapy Attachment-based therapy (children) Attachment therapy Autogenic training Aversion therapy B Behavioral activation Behavior modification Behavior therapy Bibliotherapy Biodynamic psychotherapy Bioenergetic analysis Biofeedback Body psychotherapy Bonding psychotherapy Brief psychotherapy C Classical Adlerian psychotherapy Chess therapy Child psychotherapy Christian counseling Clean language Client-centered psychotherapy Co-counselling Cognitive analytic therapy Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) Cognitive therapy Coherence therapy Collaborative therapy Compassion focused therapy (CFT) Concentrative movement therapy Contemplative psychotherapy Contextual therapy Conversational model Conversion therapy (pseudoscientific) Counting method Couples therapy Creative music therapy Cultural family therapy D Dance therapy or dance movement therapy (DMT) Daseinsanalysis Decoupling for body-focused repetitive behaviors Depth psychology Developmental eclecticism Developmental needs meeting strategy (DNMS) Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) Drama therapy Dreamwork Dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP) Dynamic deconstructive psychotherapy E Eastern Orthodox psychotherapy Eclectic psychotherapy Ecological counseling Ego-state therapy Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) Emotional Freedom Techniques, a pseudoscientific therapy Encounter groups Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) Existential therapy Exposure and response prevention Exposure therapy Expressive therapies F Family Constellations Family therapy Feminist therapy Focusing (psychotherapy) Forensic psychotherapy Freudian psychotherapy Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) Future-oriented therapy G Gay affirmative psychotherapy Gestalt therapy Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy Grief counseling Group analysis Group therapy Guided affective imagery H Habit reversal training Hagiotherapy Hakomi