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psychotherapist

psychotherapist noun: someone who practices psychotherapy.

Noun

psychotherapist (plural psychotherapists)

  1. Someone who practices psychotherapy.
    • “Psychotherapists are not immune to the same stereotypes that we all have, and I think they could become even more relevant for psychotherapists than for other professions [both medical and nonmedical], because they are embarking on this intimate, potentially long-term relationship with these...2016 June 1, Carina Storrs, “Therapists often discriminate against black and poor patients, study finds”, in CNN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2019
    • 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.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 178

psychotherapist meaning in Tamil and Bengali

psychotherapist in Tamil

உளவழி மருத்துவர்

psychotherapist in Bengali

মনোচিকিৎসক

Forms of psychotherapist

pluralpsychotherapists

Origin of psychotherapist

From psycho- + therapist, or from psychotherapy + -ist.

Questions about psychotherapist

What does psychotherapist mean?
Psychotherapist means someone who practices psychotherapy.
What is psychotherapist in Tamil?
Psychotherapist in Tamil is உளவழி மருத்துவர். See Psychotherapist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is psychotherapist?
Psychotherapist is a noun.
What is the plural of psychotherapist?
The plural of psychotherapist is psychotherapists.

Words near psychotherapist in the dictionary

  1. psychotherapeutically
  2. psychotherapeutics
  3. psychotherapeutist
  4. psychotherapeutists
  5. psychotherapies
  6. psychotherapist
  7. psychotherapists
  8. psychotherapy
  9. psychothriller
  10. psychothrillers
  11. psychotic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychotherapist (page history and authors); psychotherapist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychotherapist (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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