Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) in Newcastle

Helping you to: Manage Stress– Overcome Depression and Low Mood– Deal with Anxiety and Panic– Manage Anger– Overcome Trauma and PTSD– Stop Worrying– Overcome Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)– Improve Relationships– Sleep Better– Overcome Fears and Phobias

Compassion Focused Therapy Newcastle

The ability to show and receive compassion is important in being able to help you deal with difficulties related to self-esteem, confidence and overall mental health and wellbeing.

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) helps to reduce self-criticism, worry, feelings of guilt and shame, depression, and anxiety by using techniques that help us increase our ability to self-soothe. It can also help manage pain and longer term health problems, such as tinnitus, disability, and adjustment to changes in health.

CFT at Newcastle Psychologist & Counselling helps clients to develop skills in compassion and self-compassion that can regulate mood, and lead to feelings of safety, self-acceptance, and comfort.

What Problems Can Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) Help With?

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is a new form of talking therapy and is helpful for a range of problems including:

Overcoming self-criticism
Improving self-esteem and confidence
Recovering from depression
Managing anxiety (including worry, dwelling and rumination)
Helping with eating disorders
Dealing with stress
Overcome guilt, shame and feelings of neglect from recent or past experiences
Overcoming past trauma and/or abuse

It is also helpful for people who have experience feelings of low self-worth, guilt, shame or trauma that can originate from early experiences or as part of other problems such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, psychosis and self-harm.

CFT In Newcastle - How Does It Work?

Our Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) service in Newcastle (available face to face and through online therapy) helps you learn to change your critical inner dialogue and develop a more soothing and supportive self-talk leading to improved mood and confidence, as well as helping you function better in day to day life.

CFT is based around the notion that experiencing traumatic experiences or ongoing upset (whether recent or from the past) can lead to an overactive and increased sense of threat or danger.

This causes your brain to spend much of its time and resources in “survival mode”, leading to repetitive worry about being unable to cope, or constantly expecting the worst.

As a result, you might engage in behaviours such as avoiding people, places or events, criticising yourself unfairly, engaging in obsessive and perfectionistic thinking, or punishing yourself in some other way.

Though the principles of self-compassion derive from Buddhism, modern scientific research has shown that Compassion Focused Therapy techniques are conducive to improving a range of mental health and wellbeing problems, such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, low self-esteem and low self-confidence, addiction problems and overcoming past traumatic experiences.

During sessions, your CFT Therapist can help you learn to reduce self-criticism and the problems that lead to negative feelings so that you can function better at home, at work and in your relationships, particularly with yourself.