How to Use therapeutic in a Sentence

therapeutic

adjective

• Gardening can be very therapeutic.
• Because art is supposed to heal and it’s supposed to be therapeutic is the best way to put it.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
• The project is therapeutic for Joseph, as he’s used it to embrace his fears and work through growing pains.
  — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 17 Feb. 2023
• Usher told me that skating has been therapeutic for him amid the pressure of the past few years.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps the above makes this sound like some bleak therapeutic parable, and who doesn’t hate that crap?
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2023
• A lot of these stories are very medicinal and very raw and therapeutic for me.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2023
• Talk to a healthcare provider before using the herb for a therapeutic purpose.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health, 24 Mar. 2024
• The 40-seat shop will also be accented by a therapeutic salt cave and the sale of art and furniture made by locals.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• For some Ukrainian women who have lost their partners in the war, painting has offered a therapeutic way to cope with grief.
  — Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
• If Larry David grabbed Rainbow Brite and beat the 💩 out of her, that would actually be therapeutic for me.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
• After a while, hearing the carriage shift back and forth began to feel soothing and therapeutic.
  — Dominique B. Fluker, Women's Health, 25 Mar. 2023
• For the left, the silence has been anything but therapeutic, even enraging.
  — Constant Méheut Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 18 July 2023
• Looks like one of medicine’s greatest therapeutic tools just got a major upgrade.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
• Kouri's mother, Lisa, says writing the book was therapeutic.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024
• Carlsbad’s therapeutic waters inspired the idea of adding a spa, and in 1965, La Costa became the first U.S. resort to offer a full-service spa.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Even having barbers give haircuts can be therapeutic — a safe encounter with a stranger, giving a sense of routine and care.
  — Nicole Tung, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• The primary therapeutic process used to treat OCD is to gradually expose the patient to their worst fears.
  — Colin Campbell, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Some are put off by clinical therapeutic settings or may not have access to them.
  — Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2023
• Not everyone agrees that the approach is safe or likely to be successful as a therapeutic tool.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2023
• No need to wait until Black Friday to indulge in some therapeutic shopping.
  — Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
• But, as Steele points out, much remains to be learned about the treatment’s brain-changing effects and how to maximize its therapeutic impact.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 July 2023
• So much of my therapeutic process is tracking what’s going on in my body, checking in with my nervous system and trying to slow myself down.
  — Julie Jordan, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2023
• Getting in touch with nature and learning about it can also be therapeutic.
  — Wendy Vazquez, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023
• No, a hot stone manicure is a therapeutic service that promotes relief and restorative treatment to the hands.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
• Late actor Matthew Perry had therapeutic levels of buprenorphine in his system at time of death.
  — Joëlla W. Adams, STAT, 5 Jan. 2024
• The act of gardening is also therapeutic and helps heal trauma.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• Everything, from the day-to-day, which now includes therapeutic stints of chilling out, meditating, swimming in the ocean, and gym, to the creative process, is turned upside down.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 July 2023
• The robotic seal Paro, currently used as a therapeutic device in nursing homes, reacts to touches and words.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• Back to the Initiative’s therapeutic art classes, offerings are still online, but Ho hopes this will change soon.
  — A.k. Whitney, Orange County Register, 2 Apr. 2024
• Don’t be afraid of a little push-and-pull when terminating this therapeutic alliance.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 4 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024