Therapy approaches

Every major therapy, explained

CBT, REBT, DBT, ACT, Schema, IFS, MI, SFBT and Trauma-Informed Care — what each one is for, how it works, and how to start today with the free AI Psychologist or a paid course.

CBT

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

The world's most studied talk therapy — short, structured, evidence-based.

  • Depression
  • Generalised anxiety
  • Panic disorder
  • Social anxiety
REBT

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

Albert Ellis's sharp, philosophical cousin of CBT. Disputation as a daily practice.

  • Anger
  • Perfectionism
  • Procrastination
  • Performance anxiety
DBT

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Skills for surviving extreme emotion without making things worse.

  • Borderline personality traits
  • Self-harm urges
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Emotional dysregulation
ACT

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Stop fighting your inner experience. Start moving toward what matters.

  • Chronic pain
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Workplace burnout
Schema

Schema Therapy

For the patterns that keep coming back, no matter how much insight you have.

  • Personality patterns
  • Chronic relationship problems
  • Childhood emotional neglect
  • Self-sabotage
IFS

Internal Family Systems

You are not your trauma. You are the Self that can heal it.

  • Trauma & PTSD
  • Inner critic
  • Addictive patterns
  • Anxiety
MI

Motivational Interviewing

Change talk, not lectures. The therapy of evoking your own reasons to change.

  • Addiction & substance use
  • Smoking cessation
  • Medication adherence
  • Lifestyle change
SFBT

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

The therapy that asks what works — not what is wrong.

  • Stuck life situations
  • Workplace stress
  • Couples & family disputes
  • Mild–moderate depression
TIC

Trauma-Informed Care

Not a single therapy — the stance every clinician should lead with.

  • Survivors of abuse, violence or neglect
  • Refugees & displaced people
  • Veterans & first responders
  • Anyone with adverse childhood experiences

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