Compassion focused therapy (CFT)

CFT (Compassion Focused Therapy)

Compassion focused therapy (CFT) was developed by Paul Gilbert and aims to promote mental and emotional well-being by helping clients to be compassionate towards themselves and others. Showing compassion to ourselves and others is an integral part of good mental well-being. It can help to soothe the inner critic that many of us have developed in our lives. Many psychological difficulties are rooted in social relational problems especially in feeling cared for by others, having a caring interest in others, and having a caring, affiliative orientation to oneself. This model of therapy can help clients in these domains to address problems related to mood, problematic behavior and a range of shame and self-critical linked difficulties.