How to Use psychotherapy in a Sentence

psychotherapy

noun
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  • In a way, the show is like psychotherapy that goes well with popcorn.
    — Jd Linville, Variety, 10 Oct. 2021
  • And psychotherapy is one of the most effective ways to achieve this goal!
    — Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Well, so, using them for psychotherapy is just the start.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Many victims have gone through years of psychotherapy only to hit a wall.
    — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • It’s at the heart of the approaches used in psychotherapy and also now in the emerging practice of coaching.
    — Gary Crotaz, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Help can come in the form of psychotherapy or counseling.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • What about psychotherapy, which is so prominent in much of the Western world?
    — Tyler Cowen, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a lot of variation within the world of group psychotherapy.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • Sarah Ahmed, co-founder of Wellnest, a psychotherapy clinic in Toronto, agreed.
    — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Its use in psychotherapy has been explored for decades.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The trick of psychotherapy lies in the fact that each of those therapies may be equally productive.
    — Eugene Klishevich, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • This form of psychotherapy teaches her to observe and sit with her thoughts without trying to fix them.
    — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 30 Sep. 2021
  • In the end, Rosenbaum believes this back-and-forth distracted from the fact that the FDA doesn’t even regulate psychotherapy.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 13 June 2024
  • First, a few years of psychotherapy would certainly do no harm.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2021
  • These are also, of course, many of the traditional aims of psychotherapy.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Nguyen plans to start psychotherapy and is creating a meditation space in the restaurant that’s open to all.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Just like with more traditional psychotherapies, DMT can be applied in a wide range of ways.
    — Adrianna Mendrek, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2019
  • He was introduced to the concept after reading Carl Jung, one of the fathers of psychotherapy.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • As part of one of the largest psychotherapy trials ever run, the women were split randomly into two groups.
    — The Economist, 26 May 2018
  • Imagine having a session of 10 years of psychotherapy in 1 day..
    — Sonya Collins, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Cee will be the lone recipient of what psychotherapy has to offer.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Now Scott lived alone, in a studio half a mile away, and was doing all kinds of psychotherapy, while hiding his pension and threatening his ex.
    — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • First, a patient goes through three sessions of psychotherapy.
    — Author: Dave Philipps, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
  • Patients need to be in a safe place, away from other users, and undergoing psychotherapy, Wilens said.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • But help doesn’t have to mean long years of traditional psychotherapy.
    — Jenny Taitz, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2022
  • After that, Children’s Home & Aid sent Matias to child-parent psychotherapy designed to help him bond with his son.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 20 June 2019
  • What’s beautiful about this is that this isn’t psychotherapy.
    — Steve Smith, courant.com, 21 June 2019
  • Alexander Shulgin pioneered the use of psychedelic drugs in psychotherapy and co-wrote two seminal books on the subject, has died at the age of 91.
    — Olga R. Rodriguez, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
  • The field of psychotherapy itself, Bagnis said, is a topic that could cover volumes.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Patients would undergo non-psychedelic psychotherapy before the MDMA sessions, and then again after.
    — Meghana Keshavan and Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 9 Aug. 2024

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