Tricia Kreitman worked as a psychologist designing sex education programmes for young people and then as a psychosexual therapist before becoming a full-time author and broadcaster.

Specialising in young people’s and women’s problems, she has been an advice columnist for eighteen years, working for seventeen of those years on the teenage magazine MIZZ and then Blush! as well as the women’s magazines Chat and Prima. She has been the resident “expert” on the BBC World Service What’s the Problem? programme for three years.

In 1995 Tricia started working on an informal basis with a group of consultant community paediatricians in Bath, researching young people’s experiences and needs during puberty and late adolescence. Their results have appeared in professional papers and articles, women’s magazines and national newspapers as well as in a successful series of books aimed at teenagers and their parents.

Tricia was a member of the Government Sex and Relationships Education Advisory Group and for six years she was a board member and then chair of the Brook Advisory Centres and the National Young People’s Sexual Health Counselling Service. She works closely with several charities including the NSPCC.

She is co-author for Piccadilly Press of the successful series Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask About Periods, Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask About Willies and Other Boy’s Bits, and Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask About Things That Can Kill You. Piccadilly also publish her book The Trouble with Boyfriends.

Tricia lives in south London with her husband and two teenage children. She has a long-standing interest in conservation, and in 2002 was appointed a Trustee of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. She also enjoys travel and scuba diving.