Susan Quilliam: Relationship Psychologist

Susan Quilliam is a relationship psychologist who works across the fields of both personal and work relationships. This curriculum vitae focusses particularly on her work in the field of personal relationships.

Susan is currently advice columnist for Top Sante magazine and for Women's Health Concern. She also offers personal coaching on relationship issues.

Susan is author of 21 books published in 33 countries and 24 languages; three of her books have been written for Relate and The Samaritans, with whom she works closely. In 2008 she also rewrote the classic book "The Joy of Sex". Her most recent book is Your Child's Body Language, published in 2011.

Susan writes and comments regularly for major British newspapers and magazines plus several US and worldwide publications. 2011-12 press work includes commenting for Time.com (website for Time magazine), ABC News website, The New York Daily, The Philadelphia Enquirer. She has been shortlisted for the Family Planning Association's Rosemary Goodchild Award for excellence in journalism, and has served as a judge for the same award.

Susan broadcasts regularly on television and in 2011 was a resident expert on The Lovers' Guide, a 30-part series for Body in Balance Television. On radio, she co-presented a regular agony hour for LBC from 2008-2010 and since summer 2011 has appeared on Woman's Hour, Radio Five Live, Radio Scotland, BBC World Service as well as US and Australian networks.

Susan consults regularly for PR and advertising agencies through surveys, reports, presentations and advisory board work. Her 2011 projects include helping a national pharmacy think through their women's sexual health strategy, and assisting a fashion brand to explore the psychology behind women's style. Campaigns Susan has worked on have won PR Week Award for Campaign of the Year and PR Week Award for Ethical Health Care.

Susan's academic involvement focusses on how improving relationships can improve health. As well as sitting on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Family Planning, for which she is Consumer Correspondent, Susan is also on the Advisory Boards of the British Association of Sex Educators and of Women's Health Concern.

She is one of the Family Planning Association's 21st Century Achievers and was nominated for the Our Bodies Ourselves Health Hero Award.

She is a regular presenter at international conferences and has spoken at the Royal Society of Medicine on the links between relationships and health.

Susan also uses her teaching experience in less-formal contexts to promote the awareness and use of relationship psychology. Her work in 2011-12 has included topics as varied as an interactive workshop on Online Dating and Relating, a presentation to 600 Sales Managers, and a session for Anglican clergy on The Challenges of Marriage.

Susan advises and campaigns for a number of charities dealing with relationship and sexual problems, including the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists. She is Patron of the Outsiders charity.

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

Memberships: associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine; member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists; British Society for Sexual Medicine; Medical Journalists' Association; Society of Authors; Women in Journalism; founder member of British Authors of Relationship Books.