Susan Quilliam

Susan Quilliam (born 1950 in Liverpool) is an agony aunt noted for bringing systemic psychology to a mass (and generally low-brow) audience. Quilliam is a relationship psychologist, agony aunt, broadcaster, author, and consultant. Her areas of expertise include: love, sex, personal psychology, medico-sexual psychology and body language. Susan is agony aunt for AOL.co.uk and that's life magazine. She is also Couples Counsellor for DatingDirect.com, for whom she runs a weekly one-hour programme on Heart106 Radio, and she provides patient advice on five further medical websites dealing with erectile dysfunction, pre-menstrual syndrome and cervical cancer. Over the course of each year, Susan receives up to 25,000 letters through her combined columns. She is author of 18 books on love and sex published in 30 counties and 21 languages; three of her books have been written for Relate and The Samaritans, with whom she works closely.

Susan's academic involvement focusses on the psychology of intimate relationships. As well as being Consumer Correspondent for the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, she is a regular speaker at national and international academic conferences. She sits on the following advisory boards: Editorial Committee Journal of Family Planning; Primary Care Erectile Dysfunction Society; National Association for Premenstrual Syndrome; Women’s Health Concern; Sensational Sex in 7 Easy Steps; Jo's Trust (cervical cancer support). She is also on the Levitra Global Advisory Board on erectile dysfunction.

Susan broadcasts regularly on television, including BBC Breakfast News, and has recently co-presented the series Compatibility Test, for UKTV and acted as on-screen psychologist to Celebrity Wife Swap The Aftermath on E4. On radio, she has a weekly hour-long agony programme, answering listeners' calls for Heart 106, as well as making regular contributions to the BBC World Service, Woman's Hour and the Chris Evans show, among many others.

Susan writes and comments regularly for major British newspapers and magazines plus several US publications. Recent press work includes comments and features for: The Times; Sunday Times; Observer; Express; Daily Mail; London Evening Standard; You magazine; Chicago Herald Tribune; Ottawa Sun; Glamour magazine; Cosmopolitan (UK, US); FHM (UK, US); Men's Health (UK, US); New Woman (UK, Aus).

Susan is a media commentator for Relate. She also comments, advises and campaigns for a number of other charities dealing with relationship and sexual problems.

Susan consults regularly for PR and advertising agencies as an expert psychologist . Recent work includes: ongoing consultancy for Tesco Healthcare; campaigns for Nintendo, the Lumines II, Royal Mail, Lloyd's TSB and Barclaycard., as well as for a number of pharmaceutical products. Many of Susan's PR consultancy achieves worldwide coverage, and in 2005-6, her work won both PR Week Award for Campaign of the Year and PR Week Award for Ethical Health Care.

Qualifications: Honours Degree in Psychology, University of Liverpool; Cert Ed Hons; DipNLP; MNLP; qualified Trainer and Teacher Trainer of Co-counselling.

Memberships: associate of the Royal Society of Medicine; member of: Medical Journalists' Association; Women in Film and Television; British Association for Sexual and Marital Therapists; Guild of Health Writers; Society of Authors; The Media Society; Women in Journalism; Royal Television Society. Former Trustee of Relate.

External links

* [http://www.susanquilliam.com/ Susan Quilliam's website]