mental health therapy
Professional emotional support
Mental health therapy is treatment for psychological or emotional difficulties, typically through structured conversation with a trained professional.
The term covers various approaches—talk therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoanalysis—united by the goal of improving mental well-being.
She started mental health therapy after the divorce.
Often shortened to just therapy in casual speech.
- depressionProlonged low state
- emotional resilienceCapacity to recover from distress
- mindfulness exercisesPractices cultivating present awareness
- stress managementHandling psychological tension
- EMDRTrauma therapy using eye movements
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mental health therapypsychiatric medication
Prescribed brain chemistry treatment
psychopharmacology · pharmacotherapy · drug therapy · electroconvulsive therapy · drug treatment
mental health therapydenial
Refusal to accept reality
avoidance · repression · suppression · neglect · bottling up
mental health therapypsychological abuse
Systematic emotional harm
trauma · emotional abuse · gaslighting · emotional harm · brainwashing