Training in compassion can lead to an enhanced ability to tolerate distress, maintain focus, and discern clinical interventions for clients in a variety of clinical scenarios. Cultivating a compassionate stance provides the opportunity to engage clients with full attention and presence, allowing openness and receptivity for both the painful and adaptive aspects of the grieving process. Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) applies principles of compassion from an evolutionary, neurobiological approach, which is of specific interest in situations of loss and grief, due to the intensity of the work and the need to provide clients with a secure base from which to they can begin the process of rebuilding their lives after a significant loss.