Atlas of Healing & Transformative Modalities
2,500 modalities in sixteen domains, from psychoanalysis and CBT to body, arts, contemplative, traditional and esoteric practice, and the historical record of what did harm. Each has a guide to its framework, principles and interventions, with sources.
Ways in
Overview
The cross-atlas synthesis: nine meanings of healing, ten images of the self, common factors, shared techniques, stage models, lineages, and what it all teaches a clinician.
Read the essay →Domains
Sixteen families of practice, each with a synthesis of its ideas of healing and the person, its technique profile and every guide in Atlas order.
Browse domains →Guide library
Search all 2,500 guides by name, founder, place or intervention, filter by domain, and read each one with its contents, sources and lineage.
Search guides →Trinity explorer
Every one of 48,375 interventions placed between relational ground, structure and inner work. Build a balanced session tray and find complements.
Open explorer →Principle explorer
The guiding principles each modality credits to its own founders, grouped into 304 shared ideas, with how widely each is held across domains.
Open explorer →Lineage map
Who came from whom: 8,262 links between modalities, founders, teachers and traditions, with a timeline across the domains.
Open map →Toolkit
What's happening in the room?
Start from a moment in the session: silence, shame, a rupture, dissociation. Get options from many traditions across the three orientations.
Find interventions →Red flags
Warning signs drawn from the harm accounts, for when a client is involved with a group, healer or programme.
Open checklist →Phrase bank
Example wording from the interventions, by what you want to do: validate, slow down, invite the body, name a pattern.
Browse phrases →The sixteen domains
All domains →Psychodynamic & depth psychology
123 guidesmedian year 1970Domain IIBehavioural & cognitive
185 guidesmedian year 1991Domain IIIHumanistic, existential & experiential
113 guidesmedian year 1977Domain IVBody-oriented psychotherapy
106 guidesmedian year 1982Domain VSystemic, relational, group & community
177 guidesmedian year 1988Domain VIBrief, integrative, trauma, hypnosis & coaching
144 guidesmedian year 1992Domain VIITranspersonal, psychedelic & altered states
96 guidesmedian year 1988Domain VIIICreative & expressive arts therapies
203 guidesmedian year 1982Domain IXBiomedical, neuro & digital
104 guidesmedian year 2000Domain XBody, movement, breath & physical
177 guidesmedian year 1965Domain XITraditional medicine & indigenous healing
147 guidesmedian year 1853Domain XIIComplementary, energy & biofield
168 guidesmedian year 1975Domain XIIIContemplative & religious disciplines
296 guidesmedian year 1840Domain XIVWestern esoteric, divinatory & new spiritual movements
240 guidesmedian year 1960Domain XVNature, philosophy, social & rites of passage
123 guidesmedian year 1982Domain XVIHistorical, discredited & harmful
98 guidesmedian year 1895How each guide is built
What the modality is, who founded it, when and where, the version followed and its current status.
Its model of the person and of change, format, who delivers it and how practitioners are trained.
The principles the modality's own founders, manuals or tradition state.
Each intervention with its purpose, steps, example language and what to watch for.
Adverse effects, contraindications, documented harms and warning signs, and what to do instead.
The pages and publications drawn on. Claims are tagged [source], [uncertain] or [synthesis].
The atlas is descriptive. It attributes each concept to the tradition that holds it, without endorsing or dismissing it, and it is not an appraisal of evidence. Practices that caused harm are described so that clinicians can recognise them, not use them. Nothing here is medical advice. If you or a client are in crisis, call 988 in the US or Samaritans on 116 123 in the UK and Ireland.