About the International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research
IJPR is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that connects how psychotherapy is practised with how it is studied. It is published by Open Access Pub.
What IJPR is, and why it exists
The International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research gives psychotherapists, clinical researchers and educators a rigorous, openly accessible venue for work that improves clinical understanding and care. Its scholarship spans the full arc of psychotherapy — from the relationships and mechanisms that make therapy work, to the studies, reviews and reflective analyses that test and refine practice.
As an open-access journal, every article IJPR publishes is free to read worldwide the day it appears and carries a permanent Crossref DOI, so findings reach the clinicians and researchers who can use them without a paywall.
IJPR welcomes both empirical studies and carefully argued conceptual and review work, and holds every submission to the same standards: transparent methods, ethical conduct, and clear relevance to psychotherapy practice or research.
The subjects the journal covers
IJPR's remit is defined by its aims & scope and centres on psychotherapy practice and research and the disciplines around it:
For the full remit, inclusions and exclusions, read the aims & scope →
What IJPR publishes, and who it reaches
IJPR serves the people who create, review and read psychotherapy research — as authors, reviewers and readers.
What IJPR publishes
- Original research articles
- Systematic and narrative reviews
- Theoretical and conceptual papers
- Clinical and outcome studies
- Case-based work reported with appropriate consent
Who IJPR is for
- Psychotherapists and counsellors
- Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists
- Mental-health researchers
- Educators, supervisors and trainees
- Institutions and multidisciplinary teams
- Reviewers and prospective editors
How manuscripts are reviewed and decided
IJPR is directed by an international editorial board, and every decision is made by a subject editor in the relevant field.
Meet the editorial board or read the full editorial policies.
Ethical, transparent, and safe for the people behind the research
Because psychotherapy research involves real patients and clinical material, IJPR treats integrity, consent and privacy as core editorial requirements.
Full detail is set out in the editorial policies.
Free to read, owned by authors, kept findable
Every IJPR article is published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence, and authors retain copyright of their work. There is no charge to submit and no charge to be reviewed — a single article processing charge of US$1,499 applies only if a manuscript is accepted, and fee assistance is considered case by case. See the full APC policy →
Each article receives a permanent Crossref DOI and is discoverable through Google Scholar, with a public record in the ISSN Portal and OpenAlex. A digital-preservation agreement with Portico is in place, and content ingestion is in progress. Read the preservation policy →
Published by Open Access Pub
IJPR is published by Open Access Pub, an open-access scholarly publisher. Open Access Pub provides the journal's publishing infrastructure — hosting, DOI registration through Crossref, long-term preservation and discovery — while responsibility for editorial decisions rests with the journal's own editors and reviewers.
This separation keeps scholarly judgement independent of publishing operations: the publisher enables the journal to run reliably and openly; the editorial board decides what IJPR publishes.
Where to go next
Bring your work to IJPR
If your research or scholarship advances psychotherapy practice or research, we would like to read it. You pay nothing unless your manuscript is accepted.