Therapist Types

Behavioral Health Providers

A mental health professional is an individual who offers services for the purpose of improving an individual's mental health or offers mental illness treatments.

Clinical Psychologists

Clinical psychologists are concerned with the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders.

Counseling Psychologists

Counseling psychologists advise people on how to deal with problems of everyday living, including problems in the home, place of work, or community, to help improve their quality of life.

Developmental Psychologists

Developmental psychologists study the physiological, cognitive, and social development that takes place throughout life.

Forensic Psychologists

Forensic psychologists use psychological principles in the legal and criminal justice system to help judges, attorneys, and other legal professionals understand the psychological findings of a particular case.

Industrial-Organizational Psychologists

Industrial-organizational psychologists apply psychological principles and research methods to the workplace in the interest of improving the quality of worklife.

Marriage and Family Therapists

Marriage and family therapists apply family systems theory, principles, and techniques to address and treat mental and emotional disorders.

Mental Health Counselors

Mental health counselors work with individuals, families, and groups to address and treat mental and emotional disorders and to promote mental health.

Rehabilitation Counselors

Rehabilitation counselors help people deal with the personal, social, and vocational effects of disabilities. They counsel people with both physical and emotional disabilities resulting from birth defects, illness or disease, accidents, or other causes.

Research Psychologist

Experimental or research psychologist work in university and private research centers and in business, nonprofit, and governmental organizations.

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