Abstract: Founded in the 1990s, Daoist cognitive therapy is one of the few representative local psychotherapies in China. Over the years of clinical application and research, it has been found that Daoist cognitive therapy is in line with the thinking and psychological characteristics of Chinese people, and are more suitable for Chinese people than other methods that directly apply western psychological theory. It has certain effect in the counseling of psychological disorders, such as anxiety disorders, depression disorders, and some psychosomatic diseases, as well as psychological distress of all kinds of general people. Starting from the application practice of Daoist cognitive therapy in psychological counseling, this paper studies and summarizes the current situation of its clinical application, explores more specific psychological counseling operation technology, and practices, tests and explores the essence of Daoist cognitive therapy from the psychological counseling cases of three visitors, in order to have more understanding and exploration in its action mechanism, intervention scope and technical standardization and operability, So as to continue to explore the way for the integration of modern psychological counseling and traditional culture.“Daoism ”in this article is generalized.

Key words: Daoist cognitive therapy, Psychological counseling, Traditional culture