If helping others is your passion, we have the course for you…

We're offering you an online compassion focused therapy short course for just £9, saving you 91% off Vita Online’s price of £99 (correct as of 26.6.16).

Today’s course is a must-have for anyone interested in psychology, counselling and therapy for complex patients. Compassion focused therapy concentrates on how to help any patients that have high levels of self-criticism or find it difficult to accept kindness or help from others. The therapy is based on training the mind to help people change. You will learn a lot of insightful information on this fascinating area, and although you will not be qualified to become a therapist upon completion, the course gives you an amazing foundation from which to further your studies.

All the course material is sent straight to your inbox, and you are invited to learn from home at your own pace, plus you will have access to online tutor support 24/5. See the modules below… Compassion Focused Therapy 1 includes following themes

• Theories of compassion including drive, safeness and threat.
• Distinguishing external and internal threats.
• Exploring different types of shame and how shame is linked to self-criticism.
• Threat and safety behaviours.
• Therapeutic relationships.
• Functional assessment and analysis.
• Formulating problems in terms of threat and safety strategies.
• Key therapy skills such as guided discovery, meditation and imagery.
• Introduction to the basic model: the nature compassion as an antidote to shame and self-attacking.
• Key tasks of compassion focused therapy.

• Theories of compassion and shame and psycho physiology
• Advanced therapeutic relationship and micro skills
• Formulating problems in terms of threat and safety strategies with complex clients
• Key tasks of compassion-focused therapy with complex clients in practice
• Training for self-compassion with compassionate attention, thinking, behaviour and feeling
• Using imagery
• Compassionate reframing
• Compassionate letter writing