How to Use talk therapy in a Sentence

talk therapy

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  • The pain and loss led DelaCruz to traditional talk therapy.
    — David Culver, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Taylor discussed trauma and the brain, talk therapy and Xanax.
    — The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The result is a kind of free-form musical version of talk therapy.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
  • In some circumstances, researchers find that talk therapy is the best.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • Regular talk therapy can help your child learn to relax and cope with stress.
    — Tribune News Service, al, 29 June 2022
  • Some of the people who call seeking help are already taking part in a good talk therapy program.
    — Christin Drake, STAT, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The technical stuff — treatment of mental illness, the rise of talk therapy, etc.
    — Mitch Stacy, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • Quirk sometimes gets new clients who have a lot of experience with talk therapy but not much has changed; they’re still triggered by the same stuff.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Ads for online talk therapy apps pop up on social-media sites.
    — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2023
  • What’s less well understood is that even chronic pain can be treated via talk therapy.
    — Adnan Asar, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • One estimate shows that talk therapy can provide some kind of benefit for about 75% of those who engage with it.
    — Sonia Singh, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Then, too, his book gives much less space to the various extant kinds of traditional talk therapy.
    — Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 10 July 2022
  • The form of talk therapy used in the MDMA sessions also troubled some on the panel who noted there wasn’t strong data to support its use outside of the trial.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 4 June 2024
  • For those with mild to moderate depression, talk therapy can work well.
    — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Having time set aside for talk therapy was crucial for the validation alone.
    — Alex Belth, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022
  • Later, there’s follow-up talk therapy, without the drug, to help the patient process feelings, thoughts or impressions that came up while under the influence of the drug.
    — Will Stone, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2019
  • That’s not to say talk therapy can’t be improved to better help Asian Americans, either, experts said.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 5 May 2023
  • The goal of this talk therapy is to help patients unlearn negative behaviors and thoughts and adopt healthier ones.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Talkspace also offers psychiatric services as an add-on to its talk therapy plans.
    — Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The term covers all manner of treatment, some harsh, some violent and some – as in this play – not all that different from traditional sit-on-the-couch-and-talk therapy.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The key treatment for mood disorders such as depression is talk therapy.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Keep in mind, this workbook is meant to be completed in conjunction with your therapist, so combine it with talk therapy for the best results.
    — Mary K. Tatum, Ms, Verywell Health, 14 July 2023
  • Please remind your readers that talk therapy is useful and can be lifesaving.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The techniques are meant to integrate the methods of talk therapy with physical movement or action.
    — Seamus McAvoy, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Lykos Therapeutics had asked the FDA to approve the drug as part of a treatment regimen, given alongside talk therapy.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Before her home birth in Brooklyn last spring, Marzella prepared with prenatal yoga and talk therapy with a doula.
    — Brianna Capozzi, Vogue, 6 May 2021
  • Researchers now believe that taking psychedelics during talk therapy can help patients see their lives and the lives of others through a more compassionate lens.
    — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • For some people having access to talk therapy is harm reduction, or being able to sleep eight hours at night is harm reduction.
    — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2020
  • One major question raised by the advisory committee was the extent to which the talk therapy contributes to the treatment benefit.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Intentionally combining mind-bending substances with talk therapy is thought to be safer, and to catalyze changes that neither a drug nor therapy could spark alone.
    — Jonathan Lambert, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2024

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