Anna Williamson

Anna Williamson

HOST, REPORTER AND CHARITY SUPPORTER
Counselor, life coach and Master NLP practitioner, Anna Williamson is the host of talkRADIOs Saturday night show, 'Later With Anna Williamson.' As an experienced broadcaster, Anna uses these skills as an agony aunt and psychology expert for This Morning, Good Morning Britain and Channel 5s Big Brothers Bit on the Side. She is also the host for the National Lottery Xtra and her first book 'Breaking Mad,' an anxiety busting guidebook published by Bloomsbury, is currently No 1 on Amazon.co.uk.

Anna first found fame with big hitting childrens television shows on CITV, Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. However, away from her successful TV career and behind closed doors, she suffered from an almost crippling battle with generalised anxiety disorder. On speaking out about her experiences, she realised there was a huge stigma attached to mental health issues. To help fight and remove these stigmas, Anna joined mental health charity Mind as an official ambassador. Anna felt it was important to help others battle anxiety and depression, and since 2009 studied and qualified as a counsellor, life coach and Master NLP practitioner. She now runs her own private coaching practice offering those in need 1 to 1 coaching sessions.

In 2014 Anna went on to take part in ITVs celebrity diving show Splash! Where she swan dived her way through to the semi-finals, and became the last female standing in the competition. Following this Anna went on to front several weekly strands called Ask Anna, on multi award winning ITV daytime show This Morning. Due to the features great success, Anna has been invited back as a regular to join the team on This Morning, covering issues spanning mental health, family relationships, parenting, and has hosted phone ins on cases such as the Rotherham sex scandal.

2015 saw Anna explore her wild side hosting the Gumball 3000, a huge international motorsports rally. Alongside her co-driver Robbie Fowler, she spent a week fronting this tremendous sports race all the way from Stockholm through to Las Vegas, interviewing, and co-driving with the likes of Dolph Lundgren and Lewis Hamilton, and covering all things cars, fashion and entertainment!

As a highly credible source in the showbiz industry, with her own successful column in Digital Spy, Anna thoroughly enjoys hosting the red carpet premiers for the big blockbuster movies. Combined with her reputable media profile as a 'mind, body and soul' campaigner, Anna can also be found hosting her own radio show on talkRADIO every Saturday night; Later With Anna Williamson, a heady mix of showbiz, sex and relationships.

In addition, 2016 has seen Anna invited back to join Ryaln Clarke on Channel 5s Big Brothers Bit on the Side, as their agony aunt and psychology expert. Along with joining the National Lottery team to host the Wednesday Lotto Draw.

Anna is very proud of her celebrity ambassador and national spokesperson roles for Mind, The Princes Trust and Childline. Recently she joined Ant and Dec for the 5th year running, to host the Princess Trust Celebrate Success Awards alongside HRH The Prince of Wales, and continues to use her expertise as a counsellor working with young people.

She is also a versatile voice over artist, and credits include Sony, GMTV, ITV, Channel 4, Nickelodeon, MTV and Living TV.
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Keynotes

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Coping with a mental health issue, understanding it and ‘curing’ it based on Anna's own experiences

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Mental health awareness based on Anna's role as a Mind ambassador

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Realizing your full potential

Based on Anna as a developing life coach and NLP practitioner and how she used those principles to be the last girl standing on Splash!
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Children and parenting

All aspects on how to talk to your child, any issues, worries, communication, being the middle man between child and parent (based on Annas role as a Childline counselor)
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Helping young people help themselves based on her work with the Princes Trust

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How to make it in TV and the life of a Showbiz journalist – anecdotes

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The life of a kids TV presenter

Based on over a decade at the top of the tree in the genre having worked for all major kids networks and flagship shows.

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