Joanna Barnard is a qualified counsellor, published author, workshop leader and mentor. After winning the Bath Novel Award in 2014, Joanna's first two books were published by Penguin Random House, and she subsequently qualified as a hypnotherapist and psychotherapeutic counsellor. Joanna now has a private therapy practice and specialises in bereavement care. Leading workshops in Writing for Wellbeing brings together her twin passions of therapy and words.

She continues to write and is working on her third novel.