Looking for someone to:
- conceive and write original features for your magazine, newspaper or website?
- come up with the perfect words for your website, leaflet, booklet or report?
- provide inspirational training to employees, students or would-be journalists?
Take a look at my website to see how I can help you.
If you've come here because you've read about my new book, Coping with Drug Problems in the Family, welcome. The book will be available from January 19 2012. You can pre-order it here.
Journalism: My specialist areas are health, birth issues, parenting, wellbeing and healthy eating. Clients include: Take a Break, Right Start, The Guardian, Pregnancy, Baby and You, CAM, The New Statesman, Practice Nursing, British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, the Journal of Renal Nursing, iFly, Men's Health, Healthy, Natural Health and Beauty, You Are What You Eat, Real World, Young Performer, www.allaboutyou.com and NHS Choices.
Training: I'm a visiting tutor in print journalism at Goldsmiths University, London and have devised and run my own courses and sessions on aspects of real-life journalism and freelancing for CSV (Community Service Volunteers) and Journalist Training.
Writing for business: Recent projects include writing the Ryvita Eat Well, Live Well newsletter and accompanying web features, writing copy for personal trainer Timothy Marsh's new website, editing the Tesco Healthy Living supplement, editing Tesco's range of leaflets covering everything from organic eating to exercise and contributing to Telegraph Create's cholesterol information campaign run with Flora Pro-Activ.
Media appearances: I regularly appear in the national press, on TV and on radio both on behalf of the Birth Trauma Association and in a personal capacity as someone who's suffered from post-natal depression and post-traumatic stress disorder following birth. Recent appearances include BBC Breakfast and Woman's Hour.
Books: Coping with Birth Trauma and Postnatal Depression is published by Sheldon Press. You can order it from Amazon here.