While the mindfulness practice of moment-to-moment awareness can help clients acquire some freedom from the mad rush of their thoughts and emotions, this may not be a calming enough practice for those who suffer from the intense feelings of shame, rage, worthlessness, and despair arising from trauma and other disorders. In this workshop, we'll consider metta or loving-kindness, a Buddhist meditative practice of compassion that can be a powerful source of self-soothing. You'll learn how to practice metta yourself and how to teach your clients to use it in and out of session to nurture themselves emotionally, physically, and spiritually. We'll discuss how to integrate our psychological insights with the practice of metta in ways that are helpful across a range of diagnoses and complement other treatment approaches.