therapy

Treatment that helps someone recover from an illness, injury, or problem with their body or mind.

• Therapy helped him walk again.
• She attends speech therapy twice a week.
• Have you considered therapy for your anxiety?

How to use it: therapy for something (She receives therapy for her anxiety.)

Similar words: treatment

Common phrases: physical therapy, speech therapy, receive therapy, therapy session

The ability of an activity or experience to help you feel better or become healthier.

• For me, gardening is therapy.
• He welcomed the quiet therapy of a walk by the sea.
• The therapy of laughter helped us through a difficult week.

How to use it: the therapy of something (She found comfort in the therapy of gardening.)

Similar words: healing, comfort

Common phrases: therapy of music, therapy of laughter, therapy of nature

To give someone treatment for a problem with their body or mind.

• The team will therapy the patient.
• The specialist therapied him for several weeks.
• She was therapied at a clinic near her home.

Similar words: treat

Common phrases: therapy someone, therapy a patient

To receive treatment intended to improve your physical or mental health.

• We therapy together every week.
• She therapied for months after the accident.
• He continues to therapy while recovering.

Similar words: undergo treatment

Common phrases: therapy weekly, therapy together