Psychotherapy for depression includes supportive psychotherapy, family therapy, and behavioral therapy. Specific as follows: 1. Supportive psychotherapy: for patients with depressive episodes who have obvious psychosocial factors playing a role and patients with mild depression or recovery, in supportive psychotherapy, by listening, explaining, guiding, encouraging and comforting, etc., we can help patients to correctly recognize and treat their own diseases, and take the initiative to cooperate with the treatment. 2. Family therapy: first of all, we should understand the family structure and function, assess the cause of family dynamics, correct the bad relationship between the patient’s relatives, change the bad parenting style of family members, the purpose of family therapy is to let the patient’s relatives try to give the patient more emotional exchanges and support. 3. Behavioral therapy can use exposure therapy, systematic desensitization therapy, demonstration learning therapy, positive reinforcement therapy and so on. Cognitive therapy can also be used to help patients identify and change cognitive distortions, correct maladaptive behaviors, and improve patients’ interpersonal skills and psychological adaptive function by correcting their inappropriate cognition of fearful things. For the psychological treatment of depression needs to be used in the treatment method, all need to be carried out under the guidance of the doctor, to avoid blind treatment and aggravate the condition, the recovery process, if there is discomfort, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner to consult and standardize the treatment.