A cartography of psychotherapy
Understand how therapies see the same person.
- Epoché eh · poh · KAY / ἐποχή
- Set aside what you think you know so you can see what’s really there.
Explore therapeutic approaches through their evidence, assumptions, and the way they understand a case. For therapists and counseling students.
Find an approach, thinker, or conditionChoose a way in.
Follow a clinical question, an unfamiliar approach, or an idea worth examining.
01 / Understand an approach
Explore therapeutic traditions
How an approach works, what supports it, and what it might overlook.
Browse all 16 traditions →02 / Start with a concern
Connect evidence to practice
Explore 22 clinical presentations and the evidence behind different approaches.
Compare two approaches →03 / Examine an assumption
Meet the ideas behind the work
What is a person? What counts as change? Trace the questions that shape clinical practice.
- 6 foundational questions
- 18 philosophical debates
- Philosophers & theorists
- Essays on clinical practice
Keep a question open.
Find a source, examine a controversy, or take your learning further.
All 151 approaches, A–ZOpen the full directory
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- CAMS
- CBASP
- CBT
- CBT-E
- CBT-I
- CBTp
- Character-Analytic Vegetotherapy
- Child-Parent Psychotherapy
- Circle of Security
- Clinical Hypnotherapy
- Coherence Therapy
- Collaborative Therapy
- Common Factors / Contextual Model
- Community Reinforcement Approach
- Compassion-Focused Therapy
- Compassionate Mind Training
- Contextual Therapy
- Contingency Management
- CPT
- Craniosacral Therapy
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- PACT
- PCIT
- Person-Centered Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Pluralistic Therapy
- Polyvagal-Informed Therapy
- Positive Psychotherapy
- Primal Therapy
- Problem-Solving Therapy
- Process Group Therapy
- Prolonged Exposure
- Prolonged Grief Disorder Treatment (PGDT/CGT)
- Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy
- PSIP
- Psychedelic Harm Reduction & Integration (PHRI)
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychodrama
- Psychological First Aid
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An independent educational resource by Matthew Sorg, MA, LMHC.
Read about the editorial approach, corrections, and source audit.