'Cécile Barral is the mother of three adult children, a grandmother, a gardener, a bush lover and a journal keeper. She is a psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience specialising in complex developmental trauma and has a special interest in the use of writing to help process such traumas. Cécile is very actively involved in ANZAP (Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy), being on its teaching faculty and management committee.' (Source : Hardie Grant catalogue.)