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Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) will help you to develop skills in compassionate understanding for yourself and cultivate the courage to actively engage with difficult emotions.

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In doing so you can create change and enhance your sense of well-being. You will work with your psychologist to learn different strategies for enhancing your compassionate skills through imagery, attention training and mindfulness, and compassionate thinking practices.

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How Compassion Focused Therapy Works


Compassion Focused Therapy is rooted in ideas from evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, cognitive behaviour therapy and attachment theory. In order to develop a more caring and compassionate relationship with yourself.

 

Originally CFT was developed for people who experienced high self-criticism and shame, but research also shows that it can be an effective form of treatment for a wide range of other problems. This includes issues such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and low self- esteem.

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Your CFT psychologist

 

During CFT your psychologist will help you understand your difficulties in the context of evolution; how our brains have evolved to produce particular emotions, motives and behaviour, and how we are all shaped by social influences and the environment in which we find ourselves in.

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Other types of therapeutic approaches we specialise in are:

compassion focused therapy formulation
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