This clearly written guide integrates modern neuroscience with mindfulness and traditional Buddhist practices, showing mental health professionals how they can help their clients develop a more accepting, kind, and forgiving attitude towards themselves. Researchers now understand that self-compassion is a skill that can be enhanced through deliberate practice and that it is one of the strongest indicators of mental health and well-being. The brain's compassion center, which neuroscientists call the caregiving circuitry, can be targeted and strengthened using specific techniques. Filled with illuminating case examples, Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy shows readers how to apply self-compassion practices to treat depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, relationship issues, self-sabotage, and more. Readers need not have any prior experience in mindfulness to benefit from this book. However, those who do will find that self-compassion practices have the ability to add new depths to mindfulness-based therapies such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).