Gill Mann is a psychotherapist and author. She started her working life as a lawyer but finally was brave enough to follow her heart and re-train as a therapist – and has never regretted it for even a moment.

She has worked within the NHS, a university counselling service and in private practice. Longer-term work is her passion. She sees its potential for changing lives.

Writing has always been Gill’s other passion, but in 2014 it became a lifeline. She learned that her son, Sam had died while travelling overseas. For two years she kept a journal, writing about him and her grieving. She found herself addressing Sam too – there was so much still to say.

When another bereaved mother read Gill’s journal, she urged her to publish it, saying it had made her feel much less alone: that in her own grief, she’d felt Gill walking alongside her, holding her hand. Gill’s memoir, ‘A Song Inside’ was published by Retreat West Books in July 2020.