The present disclosure provides a processing method and apparatus for recovering a beam. The method includes: generating a first type of signaling when K elements in a beam related parameter set trigger one or more thresholds; and sending the first type of signaling to a second communication node, where the beam related parameter set includes Q elements, where Q and K are both positive integers, and K is less than or equal to Q. Through the present disclosure, the technical problems that a beam cannot be recovered after beam link failure, and beam and channel state information reports or beam and channel state information report requests cannot be actively initiated in a millimeter wave communication system are solved.