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This therapeutic approach focuses on four components of therapy including distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. The therapist works with the client to develop skills in each area to address a variety of mental health issues and overall well-being. 

This therapeutic approach focuses on finding the underlying causes for current emotions, behaviors, and beliefs about oneself. CBT seeks to identify ways to change faulty thinking and patterns of unhelpful behaviors. 

According to the American Art Therapy Association, "Art therapy is a mental health profession designed to enrich the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making and the creative process, all within a psychotherapeutic relationship."

This approach can benefit both artists and non-artists alike. Therapists may use art activities to assess, treat, and address psychological issues that affect adaptive functioning. Art therapy is utilized across the continuum of psychiatric care, from inpatient to outpatient settings. The art process integrates the body, mind, and spirit, and evidence suggests that much of what is encoded in the mind is in the form of images. Art enables individuals to visualize and understand their feelings and thoughts. Populations who benefit from art therapy include children, trauma survivors, individuals who struggle to verbalize emotions, those with physical or developmental disabilities, and people dealing with eating disorders, addictions, anxiety, or depression.

APT defines play therapy as "the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development."

More simply put, child play therapy is a way of being with the child that honors their unique developmental level and looks for ways of helping in the “language” of the child – play.  Licensed mental health professionals therapeutically use play to help their clients, most often children ages three to 12 years, to better express themselves and resolve their problems.

Play therapy works best when a safe relationship is created between the therapist and client, one in which the latter may freely and naturally express both what pleases and bothers them.