Training Courses online and face to face
The training courses and workshops are exclusively for professional counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists. They will be in English with no translation but people can bring their own translator if necessary.
Courses, training and workshops may be online via Zoom or classroom-based. Dr Ruth runs her own courses (green) as well as teaching and guest-presenting at educational institutes and events in the UK and internationally (purple)
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When Shame Enters the Therapy Room With Dr Ruth Birkebaek
In this workshop we will discuss how the power dynamics in the therapeutic relationship and supervisory relationship can foster shame…
Shame in Supervision Psychotherapy Webinar
In this webinar we will discuss how the power dynamics in the supervisory relationship can foster shame. Sometimes the archaic…
Therapeutic Errors & Psychotherapeutic Presence Webinar
How is it that we sometimes fail a client even when we are so carefully trying not to? We may…
Relational and Integrative Psychotherapy Training
Dates: 29-30 March;14-15 June 13-14 September; 22-23 November 2025 & 17-18 January 2026 Time: Saturday (9 am to 6 pm)…
Relational and Integrative Psychotherapy 2 day Experiential Workshop
This 2-day experiential workshop is based on Richard Erskine’s model of relationally-focused and developmentally-based Integrative Psychotherapy. While we associate the…
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Course Feedback
Course: Relational & Integrative Psychotherapy Training Online, 2022-23
“Ruth – you have provided such a vital place of safety, hope and welcome in your online training that I’ve needed so much in these last two turbulent years. I will look forward to any future opportunities to work alongside you and would be wonderful to share a hug in person sometime having felt so held by you even from a distance.”
Leonie
Course: Psychotherapy of Obsession, Habitual Worrying & Repetitive, Fantasizing 2021
“Wonderful speaker, very good style and very inclusive.”
A. Rapstoff, Didcot
“Certainly the topic of obsessive worrying is so prevalent, not just because of the pandemic, but because of the general and societal insecurity and seemingly overwhelming self-demands to be perfect in every way, which puts such a lot of pressure on people. Ruth is an excellent speaker and shows by example the value and efficacy of the truly supportive therapeutic alliance, which gives us such gentle guidance into seeing past the ‘headlines’ to the client’s story.”
Louise, Ramsbury
“Really enjoyed the speaker and found her manner and demeanor very easy to listen to.”
“Very accessible and well run, well held, good size group, excellent speaker. Great.”
Anonymous
Dave, Hungerford
“Ruth is a great speaker – so empathic and welcoming of questions. I really enjoyed the workshop.”
Mel, Marlborough
“Good speaker. Ruth definitely has that therapeutic charisma – you trust what she says. Very accessible. Very grounded. Very human.”
Maria Siepe, Bristol
“I liked Ruth’s sharing of the ways in which she gently explores what a client would be feeling, remembering or doing if they weren’t worrying. I really liked her prosodic voice and “I am not the expert” approach to both her client work and also to the questions from her audience today. It made me feel valued and my offerings, significant. There was a very ambient, warm and inclusive feeling about this workshop which echoed the content of her relational approach. It felt much more personal than many other online workshops that I have been on. The organisation presented and hosted the workshop very competently.”
Sue Ivey, Hook
Course: The Narcissistic Dilemma 2020
“Great emphatic speaker. Sensitive and very attuned attentiveness and sensitivity”
Carol Bennett
“Engaging information / theory; clearly presented; good collective atmosphere”
“Ruth had a very engaging manner and huge confidence / knowledge of her subject”
“Very engaging speaker who conveyed her ideas empathically and beautifully”
Mel
“One of the best events I have been to!”
“Very good speaker, good pace, very informative”
“Really interesting, beautifully presented”