Welcome to your Therapy Studio library.
You now have access to the full Therapy Studio resource library, including the explainer video collection, practical formulation packs and client homework packs.
Use this space to revisit key ideas, support psychoeducation, guide formulation and offer clients clear resources to support reflection between sessions.
Suggested way to use this library
For best use, move between the short explainer videos, formulation packs and homework packs.
- Watch a short explainer to refresh a concept.
- Open the relevant formulation pack to support clinical thinking.
- Use the psychoeducation pages and formulation guidance for discussion.
- Offer a homework pack where reflection or between-session practice would be helpful.
A simple pathway for client work
If you are using the library to support a particular client or presentation, this is a gentle way to move through the resources.
Choose the theme
Select the formulation pack that best fits the client’s current presentation or area of focus.
Refresh the concept
Watch one or two short explainer videos to support shared understanding before moving into the resource.
Support the conversation
Use the formulation material, psychoeducation pages or worksheet prompts to explore the idea together in a clear and practical way.
Extend the work
Offer the homework pack where reflection or between-session practice would be useful.
Use flexibly and clinically.
Therapy Studio is designed to support practice, not replace clinical training, supervision or professional judgement.
Please adapt the resources to the needs, pace, context and readiness of each client.
Formulation Packs
Each pack is a complete CFT-informed resource with psychoeducation, formulation guidance, reflection prompts and client worksheet pages.
Anxiety Formulation Pack
A combined CFT-informed resource including psychoeducation, formulation guidance, reflection prompts and printable worksheet pages.
Depression Formulation Pack
A combined CFT-informed resource including psychoeducation, formulation guidance, reflection prompts and printable worksheet pages.
Burnout Formulation Pack
A combined CFT-informed resource including psychoeducation, formulation guidance, reflection prompts and printable worksheet pages.
Shame and Self-Criticism Formulation Pack
A combined CFT-informed resource including psychoeducation, formulation guidance, reflection prompts and printable worksheet pages.
Trauma Formulation Pack
A combined CFT-informed resource including psychoeducation, formulation guidance, reflection prompts and printable worksheet pages.
Homework Packs
Client-friendly resources designed to support reflection, practice and between-session work. These are organised around the main Therapy Studio learning areas, so they can be used flexibly alongside the explainer videos and formulation packs.
Common Challenges Homework Pack
A client-friendly pack to support reflection on common blocks and difficulties that can arise in compassion-focused work, including self-criticism, resistance to compassion and fears around soothing.
Core CFT and Safety Homework Pack
A client-friendly pack to support work with core CFT ideas, including the tricky brain, the three systems, safeness, threat, drive and soothing.
Myth-Busting Homework Pack
A client-friendly pack to help explore common misunderstandings about compassion, self-compassion, soothing, shame and self-criticism.
Practical Tools Homework Pack
A client-friendly pack to support between-session practice with practical CFT tools, such as attention training, soothing rhythm breathing, compassionate imagery and compassionate mind exercises.
Common Challenges
Short videos exploring difficulties that often show up when people begin compassion-focused work.
The Critical Voice
A short introduction to the critical voice and why it can feel so powerful.
Why Compassion Feels Foreign
A short Therapy Studio explainer video to support CFT-informed practice.
Why Compassion Feels Hard
A practical explanation of why compassion can feel unfamiliar, uncomfortable or unsafe.
Why Soothing isn't the Same as Numbing
A short Therapy Studio explainer video to support CFT-informed practice.
Why You Can't Heal Through Logic Alone
A short Therapy Studio explainer video to support CFT-informed practice.
Core CFT Concepts
Foundational videos for understanding CFT, the tricky brain, emotional systems, safeness and formulation.
Balancing the Three Systems
Threat, drive and soothing explained in a simple, practical way.
Birth of CFT
A short overview of how Compassion Focused Therapy developed.
Brain is a House with Three Rooms
A short Therapy Studio explainer video to support CFT-informed practice.
Definition of Compassion
A short Therapy Studio explainer video to support CFT-informed practice.
Drive System
A short explanation of drive, motivation, striving and the risks of overdrive.
Inheriting an Evolved Brain
An introduction to the idea that we did not choose our tricky, evolved minds.
Soothing System
A short explanation of soothing, safeness, connection and settling.
Threat Mode
A short introduction to threat mode and how it affects the body, mind and behaviour.
Two Psychologies of Compassion
An explainer on the two key parts of compassion in CFT.
Understanding the Three Emotion Systems
A short Therapy Studio explainer video to support CFT-informed practice.
Understanding the Tricky Brain Loop
An explainer on how tricky brain patterns can keep people stuck.
Using the Three Systems in Formulation
A practical bridge between the three systems model and clinical formulation.
What Happens in a CFT Session
A simple explanation of what CFT can look like in practice.
What is CFT
A short Therapy Studio explainer video to support CFT-informed practice.
Why Your Brain is So Tricky
A short Therapy Studio explainer video to support CFT-informed practice.
Mythbusting
Short videos gently challenging common misunderstandings about compassion, self-soothing, shame and self-criticism.
Can Self-Compassion Feel Selfish
A short mythbusting video exploring why self-compassion is not the same as self-indulgence.
Myth: Compassion is Weak
A short mythbusting video on compassion as courage, strength and wise action.
Self-Criticism as a Safety Strategy
A short video exploring how self-criticism can develop as an attempt to stay safe or avoid harm.
Self-Soothing is not Selfish
A short mythbusting video explaining why soothing supports regulation rather than avoidance.
Shame vs Feeling Bad
A short video explaining the difference between shame, guilt and feeling bad about something.
Practical Tools
Short videos introducing practical exercises and ways of working that can support compassionate mind practice.
Attention Training
A short introduction to working with attention in CFT.
Compassion Workout 3 Minute Routine
A short Therapy Studio explainer video to support CFT-informed practice.
Compassionate Flows
An introduction to compassion flowing to self, to others and from others.
Compassionate Imagery
A gentle introduction to building a compassionate image or inner resource.
How to Turn Inner Critic into an Ally
A short Therapy Studio explainer video to support CFT-informed practice.
Mindfulness in CFT
A short explanation of mindfulness and awareness within CFT practice.
Soothing Rhythm Breathing
A simple grounding and settling practice often used in compassion-focused work.
Spotting Shame in the Therapy Room
A short video on recognising shame and how it may show up in sessions.
The Inner Circle of Safety Exercise
An introduction to an exercise for building a felt sense of support and safeness.
Your library will continue to grow.
Alongside the current videos, formulation packs and homework packs, we are developing additional practical resources for full access members.
Guided Audio Practices
Short audio tools to support grounding, soothing rhythm breathing, compassionate imagery and other practical exercises.
New Client Resources
Additional client-friendly handouts and reflection tools to support compassion-focused work in practice.
Fresh Additions
New videos and practical resources will be added over time so the library continues to feel useful and current.
CFT Guided Practice Script Pack
A beautifully formatted set of practitioner-ready compassion-focused practice scripts, created to use in session, between-session support, or as the basis for future audio recordings.
29 guided CFT practice scripts
Core, trauma-sensitive, adolescent and child-focused packs
Professional A4 PDFs to download and keep
Suggested companion videos included
Full access subscriber price
£29
You save £20 as a full access member
One-off purchase. Download and keep.
For individual practitioner use only. You may use the scripts with your own clients in clinical practice. Please do not share, resell, upload, or distribute the PDFs outside your own client work.
Using Therapy Studio across a team or service?
If your service would like wider access for a group of clinicians, please contact us and we can arrange team, clinic or organisational access.