IPT Techniques are used in a specific sequence and with varying frequency, depending on the characteristics of the patient and particular interpersonal problem the patient describes. IPT Techniques include following: 1) Exploratory Techniques: Nondirective Exploration, Direct Elicitation of Material; 2) Encouragement of Affect: Encouragement of affect denotes a number of therapeutic techniques that are intended to help the patient express, understand, and manage affect.; 3) Acceptance of painful affects: When the patient gives evidence of painful, unacknowledged, or suppressed feelings of this sort, the therapist’s job is to encourage the clear expression of the affect. 4) Using Affect interpersonal Relationships; 5) Helping the patient generate suppressed affects; 6) Clarification: Clarification is optimally used when the therapist has some hypothesis in mind and the patient is talking about the related subject, or as follow – through to make sure the patient has gotten the point. The point is made at a time when it is likely to understood, not when the patient is feeling a strong, unrelated affect; 7) Communication Analysis: Communication analysis used to examine and identify communication failures in order to help the patient learn to communicate more effectively; 8) Use of the Therapeutic Relationship; 9) Behavior change techniques: Directive techniques; Decision Analysis: Role playing to facilitate behavior change.