therapist

English

Etymology

From therapy +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

therapist (plural therapists)

1. Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.
2. A psychotherapist specifically.
   • 2024 January 27, Charlie Berens and Myles Montplaisir, We're Midwesterners:

     We're Midwesterners. Our therapists are bartenders.

   • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

     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 class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.

Derived terms

• algotherapist
• aromatherapist
• auriculotherapist
• balneotherapist
• bibliotherapist
• biotherapist
• brachytherapist
• chemotherapist
• chromotherapist
• climatotherapist
• cognitive behavioral therapist
• cognitive behavioural therapist
• cryotherapist
• cybertherapist
• ecotherapist
• electrotherapist
• e-therapist
• gerontotherapist
• heliotherapist
• hydrotherapist
• hypnotherapist
• immunotherapist
• logotherapist
• magnetotherapist
• massage therapist
• massotherapist
• mechanotherapist
• mesotherapist
• multitherapist
• myotherapist
• neurotherapist
• occupational therapist
• paratherapist
• pedotherapist
• pharmacotherapist
• physical therapist
• physiotherapist
• phytotherapist
• pranotherapist
• primal therapist
• prolotherapist
• psychotherapist
• radiotherapist
• respiratory therapist
• roentgenotherapist
• sandplay therapist
• sclerotherapist
• sex therapist
• sociotherapist
• somatotherapist
• speech therapist
• teletherapist
• thalassotherapist
• urotherapist
• vegetotherapist
• zootherapist

 

Related terms

• therapeutic
• therapy

Translations

one who provides therapy

• Armenian: թերապևտ (hy) (tʻerapewt)
• Azerbaijani: terapevt
• Belarusian: тэрапе́ўт m (terapjéŭt), тэрапэ́ўт m (terapéŭt)
• Bulgarian: терапе́вт m (terapévt)
• Catalan: terapeuta (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 治療師／治疗师 (zhìliáoshī)

• Czech: terapeut (cs) m, terapeutka f
• Danish: terapeut c
• Dutch: therapeut (nl) m, therapeute (nl) f
• Esperanto: terapiisto
• Estonian: terapeut
• Finnish: terapeutti (fi)
• French: thérapeute (fr) m or f
• Georgian: თერაპევტი (teraṗevṭi)
• German: Therapeut (de) m, Therapeutin (de) f
• Greek: θεραπευτής (el) m (therapeftís)
• Hungarian: terapeuta (hu)
• Italian: terapista (it) m or f
• Japanese: セラピスト (ja) (serapisuto), 治療士 (ちりょうし, chiryōshi)
• Kazakh: терапевт (terapevt)
• Korean: 치료사(治療士) (chiryosa), 세라피스트 (serapiseuteu)
• Kyrgyz: терапевт (ky) (terapevt)
• Latvian: terapeits m
• Lithuanian: terapeutas m
• Macedonian: терапе́вт m (terapévt)
• Maori: kaihaumanu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: terapeut m

  Nynorsk: terapeut m

• Polish: terapeuta (pl) m, terapeutka (pl) f
• Portuguese: terapeuta (pt) m or f
• Romanian: terapeut (ro) m
• Russian: терапе́вт (ru) m (terapévt), врач (ru) m (vrač)
• Scottish Gaelic: teiripiche m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: терапѐут m

  Roman: terapèut (sh) m

• Slovak: terapeut m, terapeutka f
• Slovene: terapevt m, terapevtka f
• Spanish: terapeuta (es) m or f
• Swedish: terapeut (sv) c
• Turkish: terapist (tr)
• Ukrainian: терапе́вт m (terapévt)
• Uzbek: terapevt (uz)
• Vietnamese: người trị liệu, nhà trị liệu

physician — see physician