Types of Therapy: How the Main Approaches Differ

CBT, psychoanalysis, Gestalt, systemic therapy — behind these words are different ways of looking at a person. One approach starts from thoughts and behavior, another from history and repeating patterns, a third from feelings in the moment, a fourth from relationships between people.

Understanding this is useful not for making the "right" choice, but so you know what you're being asked and where the work is heading. And so you can notice in time when a specialist can't clearly explain their method.

Why it helps to tell the approaches apart