Tina Radziszewicz grew up in Stockport with her Polish dad, bossy elder sister and a houseful of dogs. The best thing about school, she says, was being able to chase boys all day with her mates.

After A levels, Tina spent a year working in a hospital lab growing bugs from patients’ bodily fluids in petri dishes, after which she took a degree in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Stints as a residential social worker and bookseller followed before Tina moved south to study at the London College of Printing with a view to landing a job on a teen mag.

A year’s experience as a finance magazine production editor gave Tina the nerve to ring Just 17 and offer her services as a sub editor (red pen wielding know-all who frets over other writers’ comma usage). From there she moved into writing and sub editing for various national magazines, from Smash Hits! and more to Bella and TV Quick.

“People have always come to me with their problems and, whilst working on a teen magazine called BIG!, I wound up editing their celebrity-hosted problem pages,” says Tina. “Each fortnight, different celebs would answer readers’ problem letters. Then in 1995, bliss mag invited me to be their sex and relationships agony aunt. At last I could have my photo at the head of an advice column instead of the likes of Ant and Dec’s.”

Tina has used her understanding of what teenage girls want to know about sex and relationships as the basis for her first book, The Love Guru’s Guide to Sex. She threatens to write lots more and is currently working on a novel.

Her desire to help people fulfil their potential led Tina to train as a psychotherapist via an MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling. As well as being a bliss agony aunt, she also runs her own psychotherapy practice. Tina lives in London with her husband and son.

For more about Tina, visit tinarad.co.uk