Abstract:This article gives an introduction on the main theoretical approaches and developing trends of psychotherapy, and on the status and prospect of psychotherapy in China as well. Psychotherapy is a scientific way of treating sorts of mental disorders in order to promote individual and group mental health. Psychotherapy originated from psychoanalysis and later on evolved and expanded into more approaches, including cognitive behavior therapy, family therapy, and therapies that based on existential and humanistic principles. After a hundred year’s development, psychotherapy continues to evolve and all different approaches are blooming and learning from others' strong points to offset its own weakness, in a way, the modern psychotherapy is more integrated. At this turning point, evidence-base practice (EBP) is becoming an essential developing trend of psychotherapy with its combination with neuroscience. In China, after more than 20-year preparing phrase, psychotherapy is currently marching into a vocational phrase. As for now, the existent problems in the field of psychotherapy in China are as follows. Firstly, there is a lack of high quality researches on psychotherapeutic models, on integrating traditional Chinese philosophies with western psychotherapy theories and skills, and on establishing Chinese style psychotherapeutic models. Secondly, the management in the field of psychotherapy is weak and inefficient, and there is a shortage of psychotherapy professionals to meet the enormous needs. Third, clinical and counseling psychology has not yet been listed as the secondary discipline of psychology in university training, which confines the training of psychotherapy professionals. It is proposed in this article that promoting the professional management and training quality, and the collaboration of researches which being conducted across different disciplines with the purpose for making further progresses of psychotherapy in China.