psychotherapists
Talk therapy providers
Psychotherapists are practitioners who treat mental and emotional disorders through talk-based methods rather than medication.
The term covers a range of professionals—psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, social workers—who use various therapeutic approaches: She'd been seeing a psychotherapist for her anxiety.
Unlike psychiatrists specifically, not all psychotherapists can prescribe drugs.
Mental health professionals
- counselorsPeople who provide guidance
- cliniciansHealthcare providers seeing patients
- practitionersPeople who perform a discipline
- analystsThose who dissect data
mental health professionals · session · couch · diagnosis · assessment · intervention · treatment plan · progress notes
Sharing another's emotions
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
- trustConfidence in another
- listeningAttending to sound
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
countertransference · therapeutic relationship · holding space · validation · attunement · presence · nonjudgmental · safe space
Psychological treatment abbreviation
- psychoanalysisTreatment via unconscious exploration
- psychodynamicConcerning unconscious mental forces
- humanisticCentered on human values
- gestaltIntegrated perceptual whole
EMDR · DBT · Jungian · Freudian · existential · somatic · integrative · eclectic
Official permission to practice
- certificationAttestation of qualification
- credentialsEvidence of qualification or identity
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
ethics · malpractice · continuing education · private practice · APA · graduate degree · internship · specialization
Involving multiple societies
- indigenous healingNative cultures' health practices
- curanderosTraditional spiritual healers
- traditional healersPractitioners of folk medicine
- collectivistAdvocate for group primacy
Western · non-Western · intersectionality · diversity · immigrant · spirituality · LGBTQ affirming · decolonizing
therapists
Mental health professionals
- counselorsPeople who provide guidance
- cliniciansHealthcare providers seeing patients
- practitionersPeople who perform a discipline
analysts · mental health professionals · session · couch · diagnosis · assessment · intervention · treatment plan · progress notes · confidentiality
empathy
Sharing another's emotions
transference · countertransference · therapeutic relationship · holding space · validation · attunement · presence · nonjudgmental · safe space · containment
CBT
Psychological treatment abbreviation
- psychoanalysisTreatment via unconscious exploration
- psychodynamicConcerning unconscious mental forces
- humanisticCentered on human values
gestalt · EMDR · DBT · Jungian · Freudian · existential · somatic · integrative · eclectic · trauma-informed
licensure
Official permission to practice
- certificationAttestation of qualification
- credentialsEvidence of qualification or identity
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
supervision · ethics · malpractice · continuing education · private practice · APA · graduate degree · internship · specialization · scope of practice
cross-cultural
Involving multiple societies
- indigenous healingNative cultures' health practices
- curanderosTraditional spiritual healers
- traditional healersPractitioners of folk medicine
collectivist · Western · non-Western · intersectionality · diversity · immigrant · spirituality · LGBTQ affirming · decolonizing · accessibility
psychotherapistspsychopharmacologists
Physicians prescribing psychiatric medications
psychiatrists · neurologists · neurosurgeons · pharmacologists · brain surgeons
psychotherapistsabusers
Those who harm others
torturers · tormentors · gaslighters · manipulators · bullies