Compassion Focused Therapy

​Compassion Focused Therapy is a CBT approach with particular focus on evolutionary factors and neuroscience. It was initially developed to target shame and self-criticism and it offers a way of focusing therapy and guiding therapeutic interventions especially for the development of self-soothing and self-compassion. CFT focuses on developing people’s abilities to feel inner safeness and self-reassurance as an antidote to self-criticalness. The idea is to tone up and foster certain types of positive emotions and well as reducing negative ones
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Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) refers to the specific training and use of guided exercises to develop compassionate attributes of compassionate motivation, sensitivity, sympathy, distress tolerance, empathy, non-judging and non-condemning.