Finding Your Voice After Divorce: How Compassion-Focused Therapy Creates Space for Courageous Conversations

For many people who grew up in a home filled with tension or in families who navigated divorce, keeping the peace often meant pushing away true needs and feelings. That wasn’t about being fake; it was a practical way to avoid adding more strain on the stressed family unit.

Compassion, Evidence-Based Therapy, Mindfulness, Adult children of divorceCourtney KatzenbergMarch 5, 2026Adult children of divorce, Attachment, compassion focused therapy, Skills, Relationships, Boundaries, Intimacy

My Journey with Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT): A Practitioner’s Reflection (Or: Why I love CFT)

My journey with Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) began when I noticed something striking: many of my clients—through their words or behaviors—were naming shame as a central source of their suffering. Shame is not a small matter; it is one of the most painful emotions humans experience, often linked with self-criticism, isolation, and struggles in relationships (Gilbert, 2010). As someone deeply committed to lifelong learning, I began searching for approaches that could speak directly to this struggle. That search led me to CFT.

After baby, Anxiety, Evidence-Based Therapy, Feel better, Mindfulness, postpartum mental health, CompassionCourtney KatzenbergSeptember 29, 2025compassion focused therapy, Anxiety, Depression, Shame, Easing suffering, Psychological skills, Transformation