CFT (Compassion Focused Therapy) Newcastle

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.