Ruthie Smith
Ruthie Smith is a Psychoanalytic Attachment Based Psychotherapist and Energy Psychotherapist with 30 years’ experience in private practice and 10 years as a Principal Individual Psychotherapist and Supervisor in the NHS. She taught on various Psychotherapy Training Programmes before founding The Flame Centre in London where she specialises in trauma work and runs Flame residential retreats. She has regularly lectured at conferences and events and is currently Senior Course Director on Confer’s Clinical Diploma in Energy Psychotherapy. Her interests include music (jazz and classical), contemporary spirituality and writing. Herbook ‘Energy, Soul-connecting and Awakening Consciousness – Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm’ is being published in March 2023 by Karnac.
Online Modules
Talks On Demand
Past and Current Confer Events
Spiritual Trauma – The Forgotten Wound in the Consulting Room
Saturday 24 March 2018
Energy Psychotherapy
Saturday 8 July 2017
Post-Traumatic Growth
15 October 2016
Energy Psychology – Its Explosive Healing Potential – Edinburgh
Saturday 23 November 2013
The Gift of the Wounded Healer
Saturday 28 September 2013
Energy Psychology – Its Explosive Healing Potential – London
Saturday 9 February 2013
Autumn Seminar Series – Rupture and Repair
Monday evenings from 24 September to 10 December 2012
Working with Borderline Psychopathology seminar series
Tuesday evening seminars 17 January – 3 April 2012
Psychotherapeutic skills summer school – Working with ‘Borderline patients’
Tuesday 28 June to Saturday 2 July 2011
Is There Such a Thing as an Impossible Patient? – A Seminar Series for Psychotherapists
Monday evenings 27 September to 6 December 2010
Psychotherapeutic Work with Structures and Disorders of the Self
Wednesday 14 April – Wednesday 14 July 2010