Multimodal therapy is a therapeutic approach based on the idea that humans are biological beings that experience emotions, think, feel, act, experience the senses (touch, smell, feel), imagine, and interact. Each of these "modalities" should be addressed in psychological treatment. Multimodal assessment and treatment is built around the acronym BASIC I.D.

• Behaviors
• Affective responses
• Sensory reactions
• Images
• Cognitions
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Drugs and other biological interventions