How to Use talk therapy in a Sentence

talk therapy

noun
  • If talk therapy is speech, can Colorado ban it?
    — Timothy R. Holbrook, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Is ‘talk therapy’ speech or conduct?
    — Timothy R. Holbrook, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Regular talk therapy can help your child learn to relax and cope with stress.
    — Tribune News Service, al, 29 June 2022
  • Ads for online talk therapy apps pop up on social-media sites.
    — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In some circumstances, researchers find that talk therapy is the best.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • The result is a kind of free-form musical version of talk therapy.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
  • What’s less well understood is that even chronic pain can be treated via talk therapy.
    — Adnan Asar, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Since the late 1990s, use of talk therapy first declined, then plateaued.
    — Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 5 May 2025
  • The Supreme Court will need to decide whether talk therapy is speech or conduct.
    — Timothy R. Holbrook, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • For those with mild to moderate depression, talk therapy can work well.
    — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the people who call seeking help are already taking part in a good talk therapy program.
    — Christin Drake, STAT, 14 Apr. 2022
  • For some, talk therapy is an effective way to manage symptoms.
    — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 14 June 2026
  • Taylor discussed trauma and the brain, talk therapy and Xanax.
    — The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Talkspace also offers psychiatric services as an add-on to its talk therapy plans.
    — Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Having time set aside for talk therapy was crucial for the validation alone.
    — Alex Belth, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022
  • Please remind your readers that talk therapy is useful and can be lifesaving.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2020
  • CEOs are using earnings calls as talk therapy.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 19 May 2026
  • The key treatment for mood disorders such as depression is talk therapy.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The technical stuff — treatment of mental illness, the rise of talk therapy, etc.
    — Mitch Stacy, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • Then, too, his book gives much less space to the various extant kinds of traditional talk therapy.
    — Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 10 July 2022
  • 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
  • Lottie has no access to medication or talk therapy or any of the things that were keeping her grounded back at home.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The cases classified talk therapy treatments as conduct rather than speech.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Where traditional talk therapy asks you to narrate your history, her approach asks your body to tell it.
    — Avery Newmark, AJC.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Laura in Baltimore says her teen’s biggest issue was with talk therapy.
    — Jill U. Adams, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Many people turn to talk therapy, exercise, meditation and a healthy diet to do this.
    — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Down the hall, affirming counselors provide talk therapy.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • But across nearly all of these studies, the role of talk therapy isn’t rigorously examined.
    — Jonathan Lambert, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2024

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