Corinne Sweet is a highly experienced and trained writer, psychologist, broadcaster, lecturer and consultant to the PR/advertising field.
Areas of expertise include: Everyday addictions (alcohol, food, spending money,  in particular), relationships, money and couples, body image issues, eating disorders, older mothers (and fathers), seasonally affective disorder, beauty (body image, hair) and health; parenting, pornography and issues relating to desensitisation, sexualisation and addiction, internet addiction and sexuality.
- Currently writing a new self-help book:  Change Your Life With CBT (Pearsons), out September 2010 Corinne has written eleven books, including non-fiction, fiction and biography (see Writer page). Non-fiction titles include, Overcoming Addiction, How To Say No, Stop Fighting About Money and Birth Begins at Forty.  She is currently writing a new self-help book on CBT. Corinne has ghostwritten three bestselling biographies, Deliver Me From Evil, Nobody Heard Me Cry and Nowhere to Belong, and is currently writing a celebrity biography. She has trained as a screenwriter  (see Screenwriter page) and has written a feature film, two 6-part TV dramas, an adaptation (30 mins) and a 10 minute short.  She is currently working on a feature film for TV. Corinne has worked extensively as a feature writer in newspapers and magazines.  She has been a columnist and ‘agony aunt’ for Totally Tracy Beaker, New Woman, Company, Home and Life, Top Sante, Woman, and others.  She has also edited booklets and magazines.  Corinne has written a novel and is currently working on a new one for future publication. (see Writer page)
Reporter, presenter and expert - trained on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’, Corinne has appeared regularly radio and TV, including Big Brother’s Big Brain and On the Couch;  GMTV, Kilroy, Trisha, Vanessa, Esther, The Time, The Place, news and documentaries.  Broadcasts regularly on national and local radio, presenting features on BBC Radio 4, and co-presented ‘agony aunt’ slots on LBC and Liberty.(see Broadcaster page) Corinne has worked as a senior manager, a lecturer and is often used as an 'expert spokesperson' as a psychologist for PR/Advertisers.  She has experience working on surveys and research, and has training and life coaching experience.  She works with individuals, groups and runs workshops (counselling).  She is also available as a motivational speaker. (see Consultant page) Corinne has worked as a humanistic counsellor for thirty years; is a trained holistic life coach and has gained a psychology degree in the Psychodynamics of Human Development (Jungian). Now trained as a CBT therapist.  Corinne has run many workshops and groups on ‘giving up addictions’, as well as eating disorders groups.  She sees individual clients for counselling and life coaching (see Contact page).Corinne has appeared on 'Big Brother' psychology programmes, and has written Big Brother columns. She has been an 'agony aunt' on several magazines (Top Sante, Home and Life, Totally Tracy Beaker), and has endorsed products as a psychologist.(see Psychologist's page)   Corinne is a fully trained screenwriter (MA at London College of Communications), and has written shorts, 90 minute films and personal drama series.  She has experience writing for TV and radio and is currently working on a new TV series (see Screenwriter page) Corinne is a trained teacher, and has taught in a wide range of further, adult and higher education institutions, including Middlesex University; City University, University of the Arts (London College of Communication); The City Literary Institute, The University of London (Extra Mural Studies).  She’s also taught English Literature, Communications and Media, Women’s Studies and GCSE and ‘A’ levels.  Corinne is TEFL qualified and has taught English as a Foreign Language at Eurocentres and Sussex Tutors, and in Universitat Tubingen, West Germany.  She was also Director of Studies at Logos Tutorial Centre, London.(see Lecturer page) Corinne is an excellent public speaker and is available for public events, lectures, talks. (see Lecturer page) Before becoming a freelance writer in 1989, Corinne had extensive work experience as a teacher, and as a full time campaigner for the National Union of Students as a Further Education researcher; for Liberty (then National Council for Civil Liberties) as the Women’s Rights Officer, and for Brent Council as a senior manager in Personnel (Women’s Rights).  Corinne has also done a variety of jobs as a travel courier, secretary, library and shop worker, to name but a few.(see Lecturer page) MA Screenwriting (London College of Communication, University of the Arts);  Psychology Diploma Psychodynamics of Human Development (Birkbeck College, London);  Certificate in Education (Further Education) (Garnett College, London); MA in English (19th Century) (University of Sussex); Intermediate Diploma in Philology (Universitat Tubingen), West Germany); BA Hons (2:1) in English (University of Sussex.) Cosmopolitan travel writer of the year award for short story “Hallo Punters” (runner up), 1985 Corinne is on the YouGovStone ‘expert’ thinktank.  Also a member of the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain, The Groucho Club, The Stone Club, Women in Journalism, National Union of Journalists, Women in Film and TV, PEN, British Film Institute. Contact Email: corinne@corinnesweet.com Blog: http://corinnesweet.blogspot.com/ Agents Non-Fiction - Jane Graham Maw www.grahammawchristie.com Fiction        -   Carole Blake Screenwriting  -   Julian Friedmann www.blakefriedmann.co.uk