Dr. Helen McCarthy

Helen McCarthy was born in 1959 and grew up in Macclesfield, Cheshire in the UK. She studied psychology at Durham University and then Oxford University before training as a Clinical Psychologist in the British National Health Service. She has worked as a Clinical Psychologist in the 30 years since qualifying, specialising in adult mental health. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. "How to Retrain Your Appetite" is her first book.

Helen lives in Chepstow in Wales, UK.