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Individual supportive psychotherapy “is a treatment approach focused on patients’ overall health and well-being and their abilities to adapt constructively to their life circumstances” (Winston et al. 2020, p. 1) in an individual care setting. The first iterations of what we currently understand as supportive psychotherapy developed in the twentieth century as a therapeutic approach for individuals who could not be treated with insight-oriented psychoanalysis. Therapy providers needed a helpful treatment approach for individuals with a wide range of issues, including relationship problems, personal crises, time-limited transitions, or severely impairing psychopathology. Although supportive psychotherapy framed in this way developed as a reaction or alternative to psychoanalysis, the earliest elements of supportive psychotherapy date back more than 2,000 years to the Ancient Greeks (Novalis et al. 2020), and modern versions continue to have wide applicability.
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