The main ACAT website has migrated to a new site at https://acat.org.uk . Most of the content on this Public Engagement pilot site has now been transferred there. The Public Engagement site will go offline this coming Friday, 17th October 2025. Thanks for all the engagement here since the Engage pilot site launched in early 2021, and please join us over at the new website.

This site contains pages and blog posts about many different aspects of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT).  We hope to build upon it as time goes on with the help of members, colleagues and people who have experience of CAT as a therapy.  If you would like to contribute to this, please contact us.

Please note, the majority of the material on the site is in the process of moving across to the new ACAT website at https://acat.org.uk  Clicking on old links should redirect there when this site closes shortly.

The main navigation tabs along the top of the page direct you to pages on CAT as a therapy for yourself – CAT for me. This includes first hand experiences of CAT.

The there is a section on CAT through others, which gives examples of CAT ideas applied through teams and in different settings.

The next section is on Finding CAT in the NHS and elsewhere.  (Please note that the listing of NHS Services providing  CAT will not be transferred to the new ACAT website as we don’t have the capacity to keep it updated going forward. If any NHS Trust services would like to do a news feature on how CAT is delivered in their setting, you can contact us to discuss ideas.)

A further section helps you learn More about CAT through books, blogs and videos about CAT; and research.

Finally you can find out ways to contact us and get involved with ACAT.

The site also includes a range of other blogs and articles which go into different aspects of CAT in more detail.  Browse through these on the articles page, or use the links below.

CAT

Tools

• CAT Maps & Diagrams  (now on new ACAT site)
• Letters in CAT: Ending letters  (now on new ACAT site)
• Letters in CAT: The First letter  (now on new ACAT site)
• A Letter to Cinderella  (now on new ACAT site)
• The Psychotherapy File – awaiting
• Six Part Stories – awaiting
• Self-Monitoring – awaiting
• The Therapy Relationship – awaiting
• Boundaries – awaiting

CAT Concepts

• Are You in the Zone For Change? (ZPD)  (now on new ACAT site)
• Collaboration in CAT: Working Alongside – awaiting
• Enactments – awaiting
• Healthy Islands
• Observing Eye  (now on new ACAT site)
• Patterns/Procedures – awaiting
• “Push Where It Moves” – awaiting
• Reciprocal Roles/Relationship Roles(now on new ACAT site)
• Relational Therapy – awaiting
• Traps, Dilemmas and Snags  (now on new ACAT site)

CAT Evidence Base

• Adapting CAT to Help Self-Harm  (now on new ACAT site)
• CAT Evidence Base – listing of recent research  (updated and now on new ACAT site)
• Research Into CAT
• Research Update: Obsessive Morbid Jealousy
• What’s it Like to Take Part in an RCT?

Relationships and CAT

• How Might Therapy Affect My Relationship?  (now on new ACAT site)
• How Might Having Therapy Affect My Relationship?  What partners and carers need to know  (now on new ACAT site)
• CAT and Couples – awaiting

CAT and Inequalities

• How does CAT see me in my world?  (now on new ACAT site)

Am I ready for CAT?

• Thinking about my preferences for therapy: The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP)

CAT and Trauma

• CAT and Trauma – awaiting

Cognitive Analytic Therapy Around the World

• Cognitive Analytic Therapy Around the World: ICATA  (updated and now on new ACAT site)

Training as a CAT Therapist

• How Do I Know My Therapist is Qualified to Deliver Cognitive Analytic Therapy?  (now on new ACAT site)
• How do I go about training as a CAT therapist? – awaiting

Adaptations of CAT in Different Settings

• CAT in Teams: Reducing Restraint (now on new ACAT site)
• Adapting CAT to Help Self-Harm (now on new ACAT site)

CAT Across the Lifespan

• CAT Across the Lifespan – awaiting
• CAT in Pregnancy and the Perinatal Period – awaiting
• CAT in Care Settings – awaiting
• CAT and Play- awaiting
• Youth CAT – CAT With Children and Young People  (now on new ACAT site)
• CAT in Adulthood- awaiting
• CAT and Older Age- awaiting