CFT worksheets and resources
compassion-focused therapy (CFT)
CFT draws on a model of threat, drive and soothing systems to explore how clients respond to danger, pursue goals and experience safety or connection. Shame and self-criticism can be understood within these patterns. Building compassion involves noticing suffering and considering a caring, helpful response, including when kindness towards oneself feels unfamiliar or difficult.
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Low Self-Esteem
Self-Criticism Monitoring Record
A diary for catching your inner critic in the moment - noticing what it says, the tone it uses, and the effect it has on you. This is about watching the critic with curiosity, before working on changing it.
Psychoeducation
The Three Emotion Systems
A simple introduction to the three systems that shape our feelings: threat, drive, and soothe. Learn why modern life and self-criticism can leave the soothe system underused, and how compassion helps bring them back into balance.
Psychoeducation
Compassionate Imagery: Warming Up Your Soothing System
A Compassion Focused Therapy practice for settling the body and mind. Using slow breathing and gentle imagery, you build up three linked experiences - a soothing rhythm of breath, a safe and calm place, and a warm, wise, accepting compassionate presence - to help your soothing system come online when you most need it.
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