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Therapists' personal practice of therapy techniques can impact on a range of areas, including: empathy for the client, therapeutic understanding, therapist skills and selfawareness. Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) draws extensively on personal practice during training, and ongoing personal practice is encouraged. However, the impact of this has not been examined.

To explore therapists' experiences of personal practice in relation to CFT, and the impact this has upon them and their therapeutic work.

A qualitative approach was adopted, using inductive thematic analysis.

Ten therapists, who had trained in CFT, took part in a semistructured interview to explore their experiences of personal practice.

Five main themes were identified. These highlighted that: (1) experiences of personal practice often felt strange to start with but were surprisingly powerful; (2 …