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therapist

/ˈθɛɹəpɪst/

therapist noun: someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.

Noun

therapist (plural therapists)

  1. Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.
    • Get the whole in-network provider list and then ask friends and family if they know any of the names, or check online ratings to see which therapists get high rankings. One note of warning: Friends may have their favorites, but experts say don’t assume their therapist is going to be a good fit for...2021 August 13, Sandee LaMotte, “How to choose a therapist who will be the best fit for you”, in CNN
  2. A psychotherapist specifically.
    • Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political...2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
    • We're Midwesterners. Our therapists are bartenders.2024 January 27, Charlie Berens and Myles Montplaisir, We're Midwesterners

therapist meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Vietnamese

therapist in Tamil

குணப்படுத்துபவர், மருத்துவர், மருந்து முறை மருத்துவ வல்லுநர்

therapist in Bengali

ভেষজবিজ্ঞানী

therapist in Malayalam

psychotherapist, psychologist, analyst
ചികിത്സകൻ, മനോരോഗചികിത്സകൻ, മനശാസത്രജ്ഞൻ, നാഡിരോഗചികിത്സാവിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ, മനോരോഗ ചികിത്സാവിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ, മനഃശാസ്ത്രവിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ

therapist in Vietnamese

one who provides therapy
người trị liệu, nhà trị liệu

Examples of therapist in a sentence

  • Get the whole in-network provider list and then ask friends and family if they know any of the names, or check online ratings to see which therapists get high rankings.2021 August 13, Sandee LaMotte, “How to choose a therapist who will be the best fit for you”, in CNN:
  • Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining".2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

All 40 example sentences with therapist

Forms of therapist

pluraltherapists

Plural of therapist: therapists

Origin of therapist

From therapy + -ist.

Words formed from therapist

Questions about therapist

What does therapist mean?
Therapist means someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.
What is therapist in Tamil?
Therapist in Tamil is குணப்படுத்துபவர், மருத்துவர், மருந்து முறை மருத்துவ வல்லுநர். See Therapist meaning in Tamil.
How do you use therapist in a sentence?
Get the whole in-network provider list and then ask friends and family if they know any of the names, or check online ratings to see which therapists get high rankings.
What part of speech is therapist?
Therapist is a noun.
How do you pronounce therapist?
Therapist is pronounced /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/.
What is the plural of therapist?
The plural of therapist is therapists.

Words near therapist in the dictionary

  1. therapise
  2. therapised
  3. therapises
  4. therapising
  5. therapism
  6. therapist
  7. therapists
  8. therapization
  9. therapize
  10. therapized
  11. therapizes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: therapist (page history and authors); therapist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); therapist (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); therapist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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