What is CAT?
Cognitive Analytic Therapy is a collaborative way of looking at the way a person thinks, feels and acts, and the events and relationships that underlie these experiences (often from childhood or earlier in life). As its name suggests, it brings together ideas and understanding from different therapies into one user-friendly and effective therapy. The therapeutic process includes mapping, or drawing, the ways in which the person interacts with others and the wider world, often based on patterns of behaviour modeled and learnt in childhood. There is a sample CAT map opposite. If you've got experience and understanding of this therapeutic approach, and are here looking for help... do you have your CAT map to hand? What did you learn about yourself in the mapping process? What is happening in your life now that resonates with the reciprocal roles you identified as relevant to your experience? Are there any exits to these patterns in relating that you could draw on now to help yourself? If you've had CAT therapy and would like to share your experience, we'd love to hear from you, please get in touch via the contact page so we can learn more about if and how it helped. Downloadable leaflets and guides:
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Do you have a CAT map?To visit the official CAT website
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