A clinician's overview of every major therapy.
Modality overviews, clinical reference, and in-session scripts — written for therapists in training.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interlocking — change one and the others move.
Best for: Depression · Anxiety disorders · Panic
Cognitive Processing Therapy
A 12-session protocol for PTSD that targets stuck points — the beliefs trauma left behind.
Best for: PTSD (combat, assault, MVA, childhood) · Moral injury · Complex traumatic grief
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Stop fighting your inner experience; start moving toward what matters.
Best for: Chronic pain · Depression · Anxiety
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Acceptance and change, held together — a skills-based therapy for emotion dysregulation.
Best for: Borderline personality disorder · Chronic suicidality/self-harm · Eating disorders
Exposure and Response Prevention (for OCD)
Approach what you fear; resist the ritual; let the brain relearn safety.
Best for: OCD · Health anxiety · Specific phobias
Internal Family Systems
The mind is made of parts; underneath them all is Self — calm, curious, compassionate.
Best for: Complex trauma · Self-criticism · Eating disorders
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Reprocess stuck traumatic memories using bilateral stimulation while holding the memory in mind.
Best for: PTSD · Single-incident trauma · Phobias
Somatic Experiencing
Trauma lives in the nervous system; healing happens by completing thwarted survival responses.
Best for: Single-incident trauma · Medical trauma · Developmental trauma (with adaptation)
Motivational Interviewing
Evoke the client's own reasons for change instead of arguing for it.
Best for: Substance use · Health behavior change · Treatment ambivalence
Schema Therapy
Integrative therapy for chronic patterns rooted in unmet childhood needs.
Best for: Personality disorders (esp. BPD, NPD, avoidant) · Chronic depression/anxiety with characterological features · Treatment-resistant cases
Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Repeatedly approach the trauma memory and avoided reminders until they lose their grip.
Best for: PTSD (single & multiple-incident) · Combat trauma · Sexual assault trauma
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
An 8-week group program that uses mindfulness to prevent depressive relapse.
Best for: Recurrent depression (3+ episodes) · Residual depressive symptoms · Anxiety
Compassion-Focused Therapy
Build the capacity for self-compassion in clients dominated by shame and self-criticism.
Best for: Chronic shame · Self-criticism · Depression with self-attacking
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Build the preferred future instead of analyzing the problem.
Best for: Brief contexts (EAP, school, primary care) · Goal-focused work · Client strengths-building
Narrative Therapy
The person is not the problem — externalize, deconstruct, and re-author the story.
Best for: Identity-bound problems · Eating disorders · Trauma
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Depression is treated by working on the interpersonal context that surrounds it.
Best for: Major depression · Perinatal depression · Bulimia
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Forty years of observational research on couples, translated into a structured therapy.
Best for: Couples in distress · Conflict gridlock · Affairs (with Trust Revival)
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
Distress is an attachment cry; therapy creates new bonding events that reshape the bond.
Best for: Couples in distress · Trauma in relationships · Anxious-avoidant dynamics