Lucy Beresford
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Lucy Beresford is an English broadcaster, presenter, novelist, and psychotherapist.
Biography[edit]
Beresford has an M.A. in Psychotherapy awarded by the City University, London, and an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy, having studied for both at Regent's College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology, London. She is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).[1][better source needed] She sees patients for the Priory Hospital, Roehampton, and privately in central London. She also has a degree in English literature from the University of Durham and was a member of the Durham Revue sketch comedy group, The Durham Revue.[2]
Beresford’s initial career was in finance, with Shearson Lehman Brothers and BZW.
She was the agony aunt for Healthy magazine and, before that, for 5 years at Psychologies.[3] Beresford is also an agony aunt on ITV's This Morning, hosts "Love Decoded" for eHarmony, and is LBC's[4] 'naughty Mary Poppins' having hosted their weekly 'Sex & Relationships' phone-in show since 2015. She blogs for Huffington Post UK Lifestyle[5] and was shortlisted for "Dating Expert of the Year 2015" by the UK Dating Awards. She is in the Faculty of The School of Life and is a Fellow of the RSA. She reviews contemporary fiction for a variety of British publications including The Spectator, the New Statesman, The Literary Review and The Sunday Telegraph.
Beredford appears frequently in international media, forwarding her views on state-enforced medication and recommending incentivization by punishment.[6] Her appearances include the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2, CNN, Daily Politics on BBC2, BBC Breakfast on BBC1, This Morning on ITV, NewsTalk on Channel 5, and Woman's Hour and the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.
Bibliography[edit]
| Title | Year published | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| Something I'm Not | 2008 | Fiction |
| Happy Relationships at Home, Work & Play | 2013 | Non-fiction |
| Invisible Threads | 2015 | Fiction |
| Hungry for Love | 2016 | Fiction |
References[edit]
- ^ "Find A Therapist". psychotherapy.org.uk. Archived from the original on 29 March 2009.
- ^ "Undergraduate Study". www.dur.ac.uk. 2004. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
Lucy Beresford, Trevelyan 1984-87, author of Something I'm Not
- ^ "Psychotherapy, walking therapy, and C-Suite Executive Coaching". Lucy Beresford. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ "LBC". LBC. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ "Lucy Beresford". HuffPost UK (Lucy Beresford's entries). 19 April 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ Hamilton, James [@JamesHamiltonB] (22 October 2021). "Lucy Beresford @LucyBeresford explains why it is important to start to take away freedoms from the unvaccinated and make their life more difficult" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 May 2024 – via Twitter.