Therapeutic Modalities

An interactive reference covering 151 therapeutic modalities used in individual psychotherapy — from widely practiced approaches like CBT, EMDR, DBT, and ACT to specialized methods like Brainspotting, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, ISTDP, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. Each entry covers the modality's philosophical lineage, core mechanism, ontological assumptions, evidence base organized by tier, training requirements and cost, equity and cultural adaptations, blind spots, and controversies.

Modalities are organized across 16 clinical traditions: Cognitive-Behavioral, Integrative, Somatic, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, Trauma-Focused, Family Systems, Psychedelic, Expressive, Existential, Behavioral, Attachment, Postmodern, Contemplative, Crisis, and Social Justice. Use the filters above to narrow by tradition, evidence tier, condition, epistemological orientation, or training level.

Select a clinical vignette to see how different approaches formulate the same client — what each modality attends to, what the therapist might actually say, and where approaches genuinely disagree. Built for graduate counseling students, licensed therapists, supervisors, and educators in clinical training programs.