Ruthie Smith (Course Director)

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. Founder of Flame, formerly a Principal Adult Psychotherapist within the NHS, Ruthie now works full-time at Flame as a psychotherapist, teacher, trainer, and supervisor. She has trained professionally in different psychotherapeutic approaches, including AIT, Jungian, Psychoanalytic, Attachment-based, and Energy Psychology therapies. She holds a particular interest in the neurobiological links between mind and body, and subtle energy, and has also taken inspiration from Eastern philosophy and practice which informs her understanding of psycho-spiritual development, transpersonal therapy, and energy healing. Ruthie is the author of Energy, Soul Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm, Karnac books.

Dr Phil Mollon (Course Consultant)

Phil Mollon PhD is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, with a background profession of clinical psychology. He worked full time in the NHS mental health services for 37 years until his retirement in 2014. The author of twelve books, Dr Mollon has written and lectured widely on trauma, shame, narcissism, Kohut’s self psychology, and energy psychotherapy. Always searching for better ways of helping traumatised people, and finding limitations in purely talk-based psychotherapy, his enquiries led him to EMDR, and then to energy psychology. For the last 20 or more years he has been immersed in exploring the interface of energy psychology and psychoanalysis, to create the approach he calls Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy.

He is the originator of Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy (PEP) and author of number of books on the subject and is a past president of ACEP, the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychotherapy, the international professional organisation for energy psychology. Phil is in the process of writing a new book "The Physics of the Mind".

WEBSITE : http://www.philmollon.net

Paul Croal is a UKCP, COSRT, and ATSAC-accredited psychotherapist. He is also BACP registered and has 18 years of experience in private practice. Paul is a supervisor, psychosexual, and couple’s therapist. He is also an energy psychotherapist and an accredited certified advanced EFT practitioner. Paul has a special interest in trauma and creative ways of working including dreamwork, imagery, and art therapy. He has taught and supervised on several energy psychotherapy trainings.

Paul runs his private practice from his home in Stockwell, South London.

Paul Croal

Suzie Wood

Suzie Wood is a BACP registered Psychodynamic Psychotherapist with over 15 years’ experience. Suzie is also an Energy Psychotherapist and initially trained in TFT at the UK Institute of Thought Field Therapy in 2017, later completing a clinical training in Energy Psychotherapy. She is very interested in the mind-body connection and continues to explore ways of accessing the body’s deep intelligence to facilitate healing from trauma.

Suzie runs a private practice in Brighton & Hove.

Diane Glover

Diane Glover is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and psychoanalyst who has practised privately for 23 years in London and Brighton. She teaches psychoanalytic theory and supervises the clinical work of psychotherapists and trainees. She uses energy psychotherapy techniques to complement her psychoanalytic work. She finds it especially effective where trauma and anxiety are present.

Diane is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council and the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Marigold Brown

Marigold Brown is BACP registered and has trained as both a psychodynamic psychotherapeutic counsellor and an energy psychotherapist. Marigold spends part of her week at a university counselling service, working individually with students and running a termly ‘Managing Strong Emotions’ group. Marigold also volunteers at a low-cost trauma service, MEET in Oxford, where she uses energy psychotherapy to alleviate and clear symptoms of trauma.

In addition, Marigold has a small private practice and sees clients both online and in-person, combining energy techniques with psychodynamic practice.

Helen Stokes

Helen Stokes is a UKCP registered psychotherapist with over 10 years’ experience. She is a supervisor and teaches trainee psychotherapists. Helen currently works within NHS mental health services, working with adults both individually and in a therapeutic community setting. She has a special interest in trauma and creative ways of working, including art, dreamwork and psychodrama. She completed an energy psychotherapy training to explore additional ways of supporting body and mind to heal from trauma and continues to study embodied approaches to psychotherapy.

Helen also runs a small private practice in London.