Learn what therapists actually do, and why they believe it works.
Praxical.Psych covers the systems of psychotherapy the way a good graduate seminar does — theory, evidence, and the room — and then puts you in the chair for a complete session, with every form, every decision, and every flag you would have to raise in practice.
Follow the course
A fourteen-unit sequence from what psychotherapy even is, through every major system, to the evidence and the ethics. Built to be read in order.
Run a whole session
Referral to progress note. Choose your responses, complete the real paperwork, raise flags when something matters, and get scored against clinical consensus.
Look something up
Every system, every core concept, every intervention, with the evidence and the critique attached rather than hidden.
How this is put together
Three commitments shape every page.
Every system on its own terms
Each school is presented as its best proponents would present it — and then criticised as its sharpest opponents would. You should finish able to argue both sides.
Evidence attached, not appended
Effect sizes, comparators, and the limits of the finding sit next to the claim. Where the evidence is weak or contested, the page says so.
Theory becomes behaviour
Every concept resolves into something a therapist says or does. If a page cannot show you the move, it has not finished explaining the idea.
The core survey
All 45 systems →Psychoanalytic Therapies
1895Make the unconscious conscious; where id was, there ego shall be.
Psychodynamic Therapies
1911Keep the insight, drop the couch: the relationship is the laboratory, and time is limited.
Existential Therapies
1930Anxiety is not always a symptom. Sometimes it is an accurate response to being alive.
Person-Centered Therapies
1940The client knows what hurts and where to go; the therapist provides the conditions in which they can find out.
Motivational Interviewing
1983People are persuaded more by what they hear themselves say than by what they are told.
Gestalt Therapy
1951Lose your mind and come to your senses. What is happening now, in this room, in your body?
Emotion-Focused Therapy
1993You cannot leave a place until you have arrived at it. Emotion is changed by emotion, not by reason.
Interpersonal Theory & Reconstructive Therapy
1953Personality is not inside you. It is the pattern of what happens between you and other people, repeatedly.
All patients and transcripts here are fictional composites. Praxical.Psych is not therapy, not supervision, and not a credential — read the scope and limits.