Julia Samuel

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Julia Aline Samuel MBE (born 12 September 1959; née Guinness)[1] is a British psychotherapist and paediatric counsellor.[2]

Early life[]

Samuel is the daughter of James Rundell Guinness, a banker, and his wife Pauline, and one of five children.[3]

Career[]

After initially working in publishing,[4] Samuel trained as a counsellor.

She is a psychotherapist specialising in grief and worked as a bereavement counsellor in the NHS paediatrics department of St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where she pioneered the role of maternity and paediatric psychotherapy.

In 1994 she helped launch and establish Child Bereavement UK, and as founder patron, continues to play an active role in the charity.

She has said that a trauma is a psychic wound that has not been processed, and is stored in the fight/flight/freeze part of the brain, the amygdala, and that EMDR is the best evidence-based treatment for trauma.[5]

Recognition[]

Samuel was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to bereaved parents of babies.[6] She is a vice president of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and is an Honorary Doctor of Middlesex University.

Books[]

Her first book, Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving, was published in 2017.[7]

Samuel's second book This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings is published on 5 March 2020.

Personal life[]

Samuel, at the age of 20,[8] married Michael Samuel, of the Hill Samuel banking family, son of Peter Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted.[9]

Samuel is the daughter of Old Etonian James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness, a partner in - and later chairman of - his family's bank, Guinness Mahon, and chairman of the Public Works Loan Board from 1970 to 1990, and his wife Pauline, daughter of Howard Vivien Mander, of Congreve Manor, Penkridge, Staffordshire. James Guinness descends from the founder of the Guinness Mahon bank, Robert Rundell Guinness, a member of the Anglo-Irish Guinness family. Samuel's brother Hugo Guinness is an artist and model, and her sister is Sabrina Guinness.[10][11]

She is one of the seven godparents of Prince George of Cambridge.

References[]

  1. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 219
  2. ^ "Heiress, Diana's friend...NHS grief therapist". The Times. 26 February 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Therapist Julia Samuel on how to manage anxiety and grief during coronavirus". amp.ft.com.
  4. ^ "Therapist Julia Samuel on how to manage anxiety and grief during coronavirus". amp.ft.com.
  5. ^ Salter, Jessica. "Prince Harry believes people carry "loss or grief" — do you have unresolved trauma?". www.thetimes.co.uk.
  6. ^ "No. 61450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2015. p. N24.
  7. ^ Samuel, Julia (6 November 2017). "For Texas survivors, there are no quick fixes for grief". CNN. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Therapist Julia Samuel on how to manage anxiety and grief during coronavirus". amp.ft.com.
  9. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 219
  10. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 219
  11. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 219
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