Events and Seminars

Cost: £140 Organisations, £120 Individuals, £100 Bowlby Centre members.

Energy Psychology is the study of the subtle energetic substrates of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural dysfunction - and comprises a range of approaches that guide the client in releasing the energetic perturbations that hold the dysfunctional patterns. This field of enquiry is not based on theory, but on exploration and observation. Practitioners find that the incorporation of energy psychology makes their work significantly more effective, rapid, and easier. Both clients and therapists feel ‘lighter’ and less burdened by negative emotional states. This teaching day will explore and demonstrate simple energy psychology procedures - working with meridians, chakras, the breath, imagery, and words - that participants will be able to use with clients, as well as for personal benefit.

Phil Mollon PhD is a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, and clinical psychologist. He has worked in the NHS full time for over 35 years. His realisation, some years ago, that conventional talk-based therapies are often not as helpful as we might hope, or are even harmful for some traumatised patients, prompted an ongoing search for better methods. Embracing EMDR in the 1990s, he was able to move from there to an exploration of the broad field of ‘energy psychology’, which has been his passion for the last 13 years. Dr Mollon is the author of 10 professional books, including EMDR and the Energy Therapies, and Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy (both published by Karnac), and his psychoanalytic interests have focused particularly on the work of Heinz Kohut. He is the Director of Ethics for the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology [ACEP]

Ruthie Smith is a Psychoanalytic Attachment Based Psychotherapist who worked for 10 years as a Principal Individual Psychotherapist in the NHS, and prior to that, at the Women’s Therapy Centre. She has taught on a number of psychotherapy training programmes in London, including at the Bowlby Centre, and is a regular speaker on the Confer CPD programmes and at other conferences. Parallel to her career as a psychotherapist she has been studying Subtle Energy since the 1990’s, training in various Energy Psychology methods, and currently teaches and supervises Energy Psychology in the UK and abroad, including on a one years EP course run by Energypsychotherapyworks. Ruthie recently established The Flame Centre in London where she works as a psychotherapist and supervisor and also co-leads Mindfulness Retreats. E-mail: admin@thebowlbycentre.org.uk