Compassion Focused Therapy

What is Compassion Focused Therapy?

CFT is an integrative psychology model that focuses on the cultivation and application of compassion for both self and others. CFT integrates cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques with developmental and social psychology and affective neuroscience. The approach was originally developed by Professor Paul Gilbert for clients with high-levels of self-criticism and shame and has a growing evidence base for a variety of clinical disorders and presentations. Practicing compassion has been shown to have powerful effects on physiological, psychological and social processes, specifically in the regulation of threat-focused emotion.

Help Your Clients More with...

• Discovering three affect regulation systems including: threat awareness and coping; reward and resource seeking; and contentment and soothing - and how they form complex patterns sets in the mind.
• Effectively understand old motivations and emotional systems and how they interact with newly evolving cognitive competencies and intelligences through the unique human ability of self-monitoring.
• Using self-monitoring effectively, not for reinforcing shame, anxiety and depression, but rather for self-compassion and well-being.

Learn More About...

• Role of attachment and early secure base for cultivating compassion
• Compassion as flow: compassion to others; being open to compassion; and nurturing self-compassion
• Practices that stimulate compassionate mental states and building a truly compassionate self-identity through addressing problems of self-criticism and shame

About the Speaker

Dr. Hayley Quinn PhD, is an experienced clinical psychologist, trainer and the current President of Compassionate Mind Australia. She runs her own private clinical practice, with a particular focus on Compassionate Focused Therapy, assisting people experiencing: anxiety, trauma related issues, chronic pain, grief and loss. As an expert trainer, she offers her clinical work experiences to deliver high-quality training that is meaningful and applicable for clinicians.

Prior to starting her own private practice, Dr. Quinn worked in community, multicultural and hospital based settings. Facilitating a day program within a specialised trauma and dissociation unit, she deepened her nuanced understanding of the harmful effects of fear, shame and loss of connection, clarifying the importance of compassion-focused work, especially with complex clients.

Dr. Quinn is passionate about the role of personal practice in assisting clinicians in cultivating a caring orientation towards suffering within themselves and others. She supports clinicians in incorporating compassion focused practice into their personal lives as well as in their clinical work, creating forced-multiplied outcomes, increasing overall capacity for caring, courage, and wisdom offered to themselves and others!

Location of Courses:

Villlage Hotel Katong (enter by hotel lobby)
25 Marine Parade Road S 449536 (enter by Marine Parade Road to Carpark)
Closest MRT is Paya Lebar MRT (Take bus 197 from Tanjong Katong Complex)
Other buses: 36, 196, 966, 15, 31, 76 (alight at bus stop opposite Parkway Parade)

Tel: 98200904.  Mr Andrew

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