psychotherapist

English

Etymology

psycho- +‎ therapist or psychotherapy +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

psychotherapist (plural psychotherapists)

1. Someone who practices psychotherapy.
   • 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 178:

     A psychotherapist I visited a few years ago [...] told me that my mother leaving my father, and my father letting us both go, has coloured my view of all relationships.

Translations

who practices psychotherapy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心理諮商師／心理谘商师

• Czech: psychoterapeut m
• Danish: psykoterapeut (da) c
• Dutch: psychotherapeut (nl) m, psychotherapeute (nl) f
• Finnish: psykoterapeutti (fi)
• French: psychothérapeute (fr)
• Georgian: ფსიქოთერაპევტი (psikoteraṗevṭi)
• German: Psychotherapeut (de) m, Psychotherapeutin (de) f
• Greek: ψυχοθεραπευτής (el) m (psychotherapeftís)
• Hebrew: פסיכותרפיסט m
• Hungarian: pszichoterapeuta (hu)
• Macedonian: психотерапевт m (psihoterapevt)
• Maltese: psikoterapista
• Polish: psychoterapeuta (pl) m, psychoterapeutka (pl) f
• Portuguese: psicoterapeuta (pt) c
• Romanian: psihoterapeut (ro) m, psihoterapeută f
• Russian: психотерапе́вт (ru) m (psixoterapévt)
• Spanish: psicoterapeuta c
• Turkish: psikoterapist
• Ukrainian: психотерапе́вт m (psyxoterapévt)

See also

• head-shrinker
• psychiatrist
• psychoanalyst
• psychologist
• shrink
• therapist