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Our research on cancer, compassion and mindfulness is out NOW in the academic journal 'Cancer Reports' Cancer and its treatments do not just impact physical health and everyday functioning, they have the potential to significantly affect mental health and psychological…
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Daily Telegraph: ‘The secret Bill Turnbull kept about me for 25 years’
A tribute to my great friend and BBC Breakfast colleague, Bill Turnbull. Bill Turnbull was the kindest and most generous of friends, and the best man to spend eleven years with on the BBC Breakfast sofa. But we first…
Viewers of 5 News will see a bigger and bolder-look show from Monday 8 November, which will include a regular segment on mental health and wellbeing hosted by Dr Sian Williams. Having recently passed her Doctorate in Counselling Psychology,…
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Interview with Sian Williams in the Daily Telegraph: ‘I don’t want my counselling patients to see me as a TV presenter’
Daily Telegraph 25th August 2020 By Anita Singh It has been business as usual on Channel 5 News during lockdown. Sian Williams, polished and professional, delivering the teatime bulletin from her studio. Except, unbeknown to viewers, that studio was…
Sian Williams, anchor for 5 News and qualified therapist and counsellor, is also in her final year of a Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. She’s been counselling individuals and families for the past few years, has an MSc in…
“My Mum would be very proud of you, Sian.” That’s an extraordinary thing for Prince Harry to tell me days before I run the marathon for Heads Together – the Royals’ campaign for mental health. I’ll admit I was…
The paperback edition of my first book, Rise: Surviving and Thriving After Trauma, will be available in the shops and online from 29 December 2016. You can pre-order it from Amazon now for only £8.99. Rise is a first-aid…
I dithered a lot about publishing Rise. At least, dithered about showing you the inner workings of my emotional chaos as I struggled with the impact of breast cancer. The diaries on which the book is based are so…