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Sian Williams: ‘I don’t want my counselling patients to see me as a TV presenter’ by Anita Singh, Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph 25th August 2020 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 the back bedroom…
This was originally written for ‘Broadcast’ magazine and staff at ITN but hopefully, these tips will apply to everyone who wants help during dark times Resilience is in-built Those who work in broadcasting are a resilient bunch. We have…
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…
I do love audience questions. They get to the nub of things. They make you think. And some really seem to come from left-field. I was in the Corpus Christi lecture hall this morning, to talk to readers of…
Veteran BBC presenter Sian Williams is to be the new face of Channel 5’s flagship evening news programme. Williams, who has worked at the BBC for almost three decades, takes over from Emma Crosby. The departure of Williams is…
Weidenfeld & Nicolson is publishing award-winning journalist and broadcaster Sian Williams’ first book Rise: Surviving and Thriving After Trauma. Publisher Alan Samson at W&N bought world rights for the non-fiction title from Annabel Merullo at PFD, with a view to…
After Essex, Yorkshire and London’s East End, the latest in Channel 4’s Educating … documentary series is set in Wales. Joy Ballard – the Head of Willows High School in Cardiff, talks to Sian Williams about why she agreed…
I’m at the University of Cambridge and I’m having a panic attack. I can’t breathe, my head’s spinning, my heart’s going like the clappers and there’s a psychiatrist standing next to me and she’s the one that’s provoked it. Deliberately.…