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Susan Quilliam is a relationship psychologist, agony aunt, broadcaster, author, and consultant. Her areas of expertise include: love; sex; personal psychology; celebrity psychology; body language; relationship psychology. Susan is agony aunt for: ITV Teletext; AOL.co.uk; that's life magazine and Top Sante magazine. In addition, she writes a weekly Dating and Relationships column for Teletext. She is author of 18 books published in 30 counties and 21 languages; three of her books have been written for Relate and The Samaritans, with whom she works closely.

Her academic involvement currently includes the following: Consumer Correspondent and member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care; member of the Clinical Advisory team for the National Association for Premenstrual Syndrome; member of the Advisory Board of the Primary Care Erectile Dysfunction Society. She is also on the Bayer Health Care Advisory Board for Erectile Dysfunction. Susan also regularly presents at academic conferences

Susan writes and comments regularly for major British newspapers and magazines plus several US publications. Recent press work includes regular commissions with the Daily Mail; Times; Sunday Times; Closer, Guardian; Observer; Glamour, Independent, Mail on Sunday, You Magazine, SELF (US edition).

She appears regularly on television and radio. Recent broadcast coverage includes: Britain's Worst Wife, You & Yours Radio 4, BBC TV Breakfast News, regular work for Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show; Women's Hour, Big Brother's Little Brother, BBC Asian Network, BBC World Service, Celebrity Big Brother, GMTV, Lorraine Live, This Morning.

Susan works regularly as an expert psychologist for PR ad campaigns. Recent work includes: ongoing advisory board and campaign work for Levitra; ongoing consultancy for Tesco Healthcare; recent work includes campaigns for Nintendo, the Royal Mail, Marriott Hotels, Lloyd's TSB and Barclaycard. Many of Susan's PR work achieves worldwide coverage.

Susan does pro bono PR work for Relate and the British Association of Sexual and Relationship Therapists and is a media spokesperson for both the Samaritans and the National Association for Premenstrual Syndrome.

Qualifications: Honours Degree in Psychology, University of Liverpool; Cert Ed Hons; DipNLP; MANLP; qualified Trainer and Teacher Trainer of Co-counselling; co founder of the Brussels Co-counselling Community. Has run over 100 workshops in self-development.

Memberships: founder member of British Authors of Relationship Books; 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.