Health / B2

THER-uh-pee/ˈθerəpi/

Therapy is treatment for a physical or mental condition: speech therapy; therapy session; in therapy. Treatment is wider; counselling is talking support (already in B1). Uncountable in much use; a therapy can mean a type. Do not call a hobby therapy unless you mean it metaphorically and say so.

Meaning

Treatment intended to help a physical or mental condition.

Examples

• “Speech therapy was offered after the stroke.”
• “She has been in therapy for six months, which is the mental-health sense.”

Good to know

speech / physical / gene therapy; in therapy. Wider: treatment. Talking: counselling. Uncountable and countable. Metaphor: shopping as therapy (informal).

Near in meaning

treatment

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