Compassion Focused Therapy
CFT, for when self-criticism has been doing a job that kindness could do better.
What Is Compassion Focused Therapy?
Compassion Focused Therapy was developed for one specific reason: some people can understand exactly why they think and feel the way they do, and still can't feel any kinder toward themselves because of it.
Developed by clinical psychologist Paul Gilbert, CFT is a therapeutic approach built specifically for people who experience high levels of shame and self-criticism (Gilbert, 2009).Many people arrive in therapy already able to explain their patterns intellectually, why they're a perfectionist, why
they people-please, why they can't rest, but insight alone doesn't always soften the harshness of how they treat themselves. CFT was built to close that particular gap.
At Treat Yourself Well, compassion isn't a nice sentiment we add on top of treatment. It's one of the clinical approaches we actively draw on across almost everything we do, because so much of what brings people to therapy, shame, harsh self-judgement, a sense of never being enough, responds to it directly.
Why Self-Kindness Doesn't Always Come Naturally
Compassion Focused Therapy was developed for one specific reason: some people can understand exactly why they think and feel the way they do, and still can't feel any kinder toward themselves because of it.
Developed by clinical psychologist Paul Gilbert, CFT is a therapeutic approach built specifically for people who experience high levels of shame and self-criticism (Gilbert, 2009).Many people arrive in therapy already able to explain their patterns intellectually, why they're a perfectionist, why
they people-please, why they can't rest, but insight alone doesn't always soften the harshness of how they treat themselves. CFT was built to close that particular gap.
At Treat Yourself Well, compassion isn't a nice sentiment we add on top of treatment. It's one of the clinical approaches we actively draw on across almost everything we do, because so much of what brings people to therapy, shame, harsh self-judgement, a sense of never being enough, responds to it directly.