Lucy Beresford

Last updated

Lucy Beresford is an English broadcaster, presenter, novelist, and psychotherapist.

Contents

Biography

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 .

Beresford 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

TitleYear publishedGenre
Something I'm Not2008Fiction
Happy Relationships at Home, Work & Play2013Non-fiction
Invisible Threads2015Fiction
Hungry for Love2016Fiction

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vanessa Feltz</span> British broadcaster

Vanessa Jane Feltz is an English television personality, broadcaster, and journalist. She has appeared on various television shows, including Vanessa (1994–1998), The Big Breakfast (1996–1998), The Vanessa Show (1999), Celebrity Big Brother (2001), The Wright Stuff (2003–2005), This Morning (2006–present), and Strictly Come Dancing (2013).

Melanie Ann Sykes is an English television and radio presenter. She is best known for co-hosting Today with Des and Mel with Des O'Connor and Let's Do Lunch with Gino D'Acampo. She also co-hosted Going Out with Alan Carr on BBC Radio 2 with Alan Carr from May 2010 until it ended in March 2012, and returned with him for Alan and Mel's Summer Escape from 2017. Sykes co-presented Shop Well For Less alongside Joanna Page on BBC One.

Julia Hartley-Brewer is a conservative British radio presenter, political journalist, and newspaper columnist. She has hosted a radio show on Talkradio simulcast on Talk called Julia Hartley-Brewer on weekdays from 10am.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kate Garraway</span> British broadcaster

Kathryn Mary Draper - Garraway is an English broadcaster and journalist. In the 1990s, Garraway was a journalist for ITV News Central and later a co-presenter of ITV News Meridian. From 2000 to 2010, she co-presented GMTV. Currently, Garraway is the presenter of Mid Mornings with Kate Garraway on Smooth Radio and newsreader and co-anchor of the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gabby Logan</span> Welsh TV/radio presenter and rhythmic gymnast (born 1973)

Gabrielle Nicole Logan is a Welsh television and radio presenter, and a former rhythmic gymnast who represented Wales and Great Britain. She hosted Final Score for BBC Sport from 2009 until 2013. She has also presented live sports events for the BBC, including a revived episode of Superstars in December 2012 and the London Marathon since 2015. Since 2013, she has co-hosted Sports Personality of the Year for the BBC and she presented the second series of The Edge in 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Denise Robertson</span> British writer and television broadcaster

Denise Robertson was a British writer and television broadcaster. She made her television debut as the presenter of the Junior Advice Line segment of the BBC's Breakfast Time programme in 1985, though she is best known as the resident agony aunt on the ITV show This Morning from its first broadcast on 3 October 1988 until her death. In the course of her career, she dealt with over 200,000 letters from viewers seeking advice. In 2006 she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to broadcasting.

Ian Payne is a British broadcaster. He is currently a sports correspondent at ITV News and the host of early breakfast 4am-7am current affairs phone-in show on LBC. He previously worked as a presenter for Radio 5 Live and Sky Sports.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Holly Willoughby</span> English television presenter, model and author (born 1981)

Holly Marie Willoughby is an English television presenter, author and model. She has presented various television shows for ITV, including This Morning (2009–2023) and Dancing on Ice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Raeburn</span> British journalist

Anna Raeburn is a British broadcaster, author and journalist who is best known for her role as an "agony aunt", giving advice on relationships and more general life problems. As a broadcaster, she has worked for Capital Radio, LBC and the original Talk Radio. She has authored two books and currently writes her own weekly blog called, 'Annalog'.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James O'Brien (broadcaster)</span> British radio presenter, podcaster, author

James Edward O'Brien is a British radio presenter, podcaster, author, and former tabloid journalist and television presenter. Since 2004, he has hosted a weekday morning phone-in discussion for talk station LBC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James Whale (radio presenter)</span> British radio DJ (born 1951)

Michael James Whale is a British radio personality, television presenter, podcast host and author. He gained initial prominence in the 1980s as the host of The James Whale Radio Show on Radio Aire in Leeds, which was simulcast on national television. From 1995 to 2008, Whale hosted a night time radio show on talkSPORT, followed by stints on LBC 97.3 and various BBC radio stations.

Maria McErlane is a British actress and presenter specialising in comedy. She has been acting since 1984. She has appeared in several TV series, including The Fast Show, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Thin Ice and Happiness, "straight" roles in The Bill and Holby City and as the narrator for Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier's Eurotrash.

Lisa Soraya Aziz is a British news presenter. She is best known as the presenter of the Morning News on LBC. Before this she worked for ITV Westcountry as a co-presenter for the evening news programme The West Country Tonight. She later resigned from that post. She also presented the news on TV-am and Sky News, and was one of the first Asian presenters to be seen on television. In 2004, she was the recipient of an EMMA award for Best Television News Journalist. Aziz currently presents the breakfast show on the UK's first 24-hour rolling news radio station LBC News.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Susanna Reid</span> English television presenter (born 1970)

Susanna Reid is an English television presenter and journalist. She was a co-presenter of BBC Breakfast from 2001 until 2014 alongside Bill Turnbull and Charlie Stayt. In 2013, she finished as a runner-up on the eleventh series of Strictly Come Dancing alongside dance-partner Kevin Clifton. Since 2014, Reid has been the lead presenter of the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain alongside Kate Garraway, Richard Madeley, Ed Balls and formerly Piers Morgan and Ben Shephard. She also presented Sunday Morning Live on BBC One from 2010 to 2011.

Jeni Barnett is an English TV presenter.

Phillip Hodson is a British psychotherapist, broadcaster and author who popularised ‘phone-in’ therapy in his role as Britain's first 'agony uncle'. His afternoon and evening counselling programmes ran on LBC Radio in London for nearly 20 years. Thereafter he worked on Talk Radio and with Jimmy Young on BBC Radio 2.

Shelagh Fogarty is a British radio presenter, journalist and former television presenter. She presents the afternoon programme on LBC, having previously co-hosted the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show with Nicky Campbell.

Philippa, Lady Perry, is a British integrative psychotherapist and author. She has written the graphic novel Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy (2010), How to Stay Sane (2012), The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (2019). The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don't) (2023).

<i>Good Morning Britain</i> (2014 TV programme) Breakfast television

Good Morning Britain is a British breakfast television programme that is broadcast on ITV. It first aired on 28 April 2014 and is broadcast live every weekday from 6:00 am to 9:00 am across the United Kingdom. The programme features a variety of news, interviews, politics, sport, entertainment, competitions and weather as well as local news bulletins delivered by the ITV regions. The programme is currently presented by Susanna Reid, Kate Garraway, Charlotte Hawkins, Ranvir Singh, Richard Madeley, Ed Balls, Adil Ray and Robert Rinder.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ria Hebden</span> British television presenter

Ria Hebden is an English journalist and television presenter. She has been reporting on This Morning's Sofa Tour since 2018 and has been the entertainment editor on Lorraine since January 2020. Since 2020, she has co-presented All Around Britain with Alex Beresford.

References

  1. "Find A Therapist". psychotherapy.org.uk. Archived from the original on 29 March 2009.
  2. "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
  3. "Psychotherapy, walking therapy, and C-Suite Executive Coaching". Lucy Beresford. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  4. "LBC". LBC. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  5. "Lucy Beresford". HuffPost UK (Lucy Beresford's entries). 19 April 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  6. Hamilton, James [@JamesHamiltonB] (23 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.