Gerrilyn Smith has worked as a clinical psychologist in child and adolescent mental health services since qualifying in 1978. She trained as a systemic psychotherapist in the early 1980s and also holds a teaching certificate in Kundalini Yoga. Gerrilyn has also written and published extensively, most recently publishing Self-Soothing: Coping With Everyday & Extraordinary Stress (Pavilion Publishing and Media, 2014).