Sian Williams

Dr Sian Williams has been a broadcast journalist for nearly forty years, working as a reporter, producer and presenter across the BBC and ITN, including over a decade anchoring ‘BBC Breakfast’ as well as presenting all the main BBC News bulletins. She is now as the host of ‘Life Changing’ on BBC Radio 4. Sian is also a Counselling Psychologist, practising in the NHS with the emergency services, and privately with journalists and media production companies, to help them identify, treat and recover from vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress. Sian has published academic research into journalism and post-traumatic growth, as well as a book called ‘Rise. Surviving and Thriving after Trauma’.