RISING WISDOM founder

A picture of Sophie looking at the camera, with long dark blonde hair, and thick rimmed glasses

sophie Blackman-smith

With a 25 year career as a clinical professional within healthcare, including over a decade as a specialist clinical educator - my career has always focused on helping people.

However, due to my own life experiences of trauma and grief, I recognised that I needed to turn my attention towards my own healing, and embarked on a quest to break free of the chaos and overwhelm cycle that prevented me from truly flourishing.

I found the healing benefits of therapy, yoga and meditation before eventually finding my way to circle; a place where I felt gently held in my vulnerability as I put my stories into words.

Determined to offer this sacred space to others I qualified as an advanced circle facilitator and a meditation guide, and have been offering circles to women and the LGBTQ+ community since 2020. However, my life experiences led me to my true calling of helping others through grief and loss. Having completed training as a Hypnotherapist and trauma informed Grief Coach, my focus is on offering support to those experiencing grief and loss through the sacred practice of grief tending and powerful modality of hypnotherapy.

Both trauma informed and LGBTQ+ inclusive, I am also currently in training as a psychotherapeutic counsellor, and somatic healer. These treatment options will also be available soon.

sophie's story

In the year 2000, I experienced a life changing event when my sister was murdered.

As a stand alone event this was incredibly difficult to navigate, but other life-experiences prior to this meant that my emotional foundations were already unstable.

When my sister died I did not have a framework to lean on to help me navigate the complexity of emotions that arose, and spiralled into a cycle of overwhelm and self-destruction that led me to unhealthy coping mechanisms.

Over the last two decades I have been focusing on healing myself and have learned that this requires travelling inwards to connect deeply with oneself. Through therapy, meditation, yoga, and circle I connected with my innate rising wisdom, an inner truth and knowing, and the strongest desire to break free from the life I was living, in order to truly thrive and I continue to carve out a path in life that aligns with truth to my authentic being.

To expand on my life calling for helping others, I completed my training as a hypnotherapist, an advanced circle facilitator, meditation guide, and certified trauma informed grief coach offering grief tending to those working through grief and loss. I am also currently training as a psychotherapeutic counsellor and a somatic healing therapist.

Rising Wisdom is the space where all these offerings come together; to deliver holistic and humanistic services for people on their own journey of becoming.

I live with my wife, puppy, and cat, just outside of London on the Surrey/Kent border.

QUALIFICATIONS and TRAINING

Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Introduction to Counselling Skills

Introduction to Andean Shamanism and Pleiades Masterclass

Certified Grief Coach

Certified Trauma Informed Coach

LGBTQ+ Awareness Certificate

Advanced Circle Facilitator Training

Meditation Teacher Diploma

Designated Safeguarding Lead

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

MSc in Clinical Education

Circle Facilitator Training

BSc (Hons) in Clinical Physiology (Cardiology)

Enhanced DBS Certified

Currently studying a Diploma Psychotherapeutic Counselling, and Somatic Healing Certification

RISING WISDOM founder

sophie Blackman-smith

sophie's story

Sophie is a calm presence, a warm heart. A true story. someone who has known the darkness and the light and can hold both magically

QUALIFICATIONS and TRAINING

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