therapy
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈθɛrəpi/
:
terapia
- After attending weekly therapy sessions, he started to feel much better about his anxiety.
- cognitive behavioral therapy
- replacement therapy
- behavioral therapy
Is this something that needs therapy or just time?
- Is this something that needs therapy or just time?
- If you are able to get therapy, release this.
- And she's forced to go to therapy at school.
- And this is like therapy with a goal.
- She fought hard in court to get therapy for her children.
- And so through therapy, I was able to shift my perspective.
- So thank you for this like free therapy session.
- So EMDR is a, is a type of therapy.
- So and she went through the training of this therapy.
- But, but you could ask what brought you to therapy?
Examples
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And so through therapy, I was able to shift my perspective.
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She fought hard in court to get therapy for her children.
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Is this something that needs therapy or just time?
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But thanks for listening in on this therapy session.
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And, you know, I know how much therapy can cost.
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You need some serious therapy and a hug.
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And she's forced to go to therapy at school.
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After thousands of hours of hypnosis therapy, I finally met my inner child.
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An approach along the lines of the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy can be helpful.
Academic text (2011) -
Despite this, she is adamant that the therapy is vitally important for Liam.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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2.1
Care to cure or reduce a health problem
49
3.7
A treatment that uses exercise and massage to help people move and reduce pain
24
5.8
Treatment that uses talking with a trained person to help problems with feelings or thinking
23
4.0
Help to make someone's body move and work again after injury or illness
18
3.4
A small group that meets with a therapist to talk about personal problems
8
3.5
Help for people who find talking difficult so others can understand them
4
3.9
A meeting with a therapist for family members to improve communication and solve problems
3
4.0
Help people do everyday tasks despite physical or mental difficulties using practical activities
3
3.7
Treatment using exercise and massage to help people recover after injury or illness
1
6.2
A medical treatment that uses medicines like pills or injections
1
4.8
Treatment that helps people regain movement and daily skills after illness or injury
A medical treatment that removes a disease completely
A way of using dance and movement to help people feel better emotionally and physically
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
49
3.7
A treatment that uses exercise and massage to help people move and reduce pain
- Specialized
18
3.4
A small group that meets with a therapist to talk about personal problems
- Specialized
8
5.1
A treatment that uses electric shocks to treat severe mental illness
- Specialized
7
3.9
A treatment that uses strong beams of energy to kill cancer cells
- Specialized
7
4.3
A medical treatment that gives chemicals made by the body to women after menopause to reduce symptoms and bone loss
- Specialized
6
5.1
A medical treatment that uses a strong electric current through the brain to treat serious mental illness
- Specialized
4
3.9
A meeting with a therapist for family members to improve communication and solve problems
- Specialized
3
7.7
A treatment that uses unpleasant experiences to stop unwanted habits like addiction
- Specialized
3
4.0
Help people do everyday tasks despite physical or mental difficulties using practical activities
- Specialized
3
3.9
A treatment that helps people change actions they do not want by rewarding better ones
- Specialized
2
4.6
A treatment where a person faces what makes them afraid in a safe place
- Specialized
1
6.5
A medical treatment using brief electric shocks to the brain to reduce severe depression symptoms
- Specialized
1
4.8
A treatment that gives hormones like estrogen to women after menopause to reduce hot flashes and bone loss
- Specialized
A way of helping someone talk about their feelings where the person leads sessions at their own pace
- Specialized
A way of using dance and movement to help people feel better emotionally and physically
- Specialized
A method that teaches you to relax your body and mind by saying calming words in your mind
- Specialized
Current ways of treating mental health problems that use new science and methods
- Specialized
A treatment that uses parts of plants to help prevent or treat illness
- Specialized
A treatment for HIV that uses several medicines to lower the amount of virus in the body
- Specialized
A medical treatment that gives body chemicals to transgender people to cause body changes matching their gender identity
- Specialized
A treatment where a person faces intense fears in a safe place to reduce anxiety
- Specialized
A medical treatment that puts liquid, oxygen, or medicine into the airways to help breathing
- Specialized
A treatment that uses heat from special light to reduce pain and improve blood flow
- Archaic
A past treatment for mental illness that used large insulin doses to cause fits and coma
- Archaic
A medical treatment using radium to treat cancer that was used in the past
- Specialized
A treatment that teaches people to relax to reduce anxiety in scary situations
- Specialized
Use medicine to break up blood clots that cause heart attack or stroke
How Intensive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Therapy comes from the Greek word therapeia, which means 'care' or 'service'. Think of a therapist, someone who takes care of you, so therapy is the care or treatment for physical or mental health problems.