Behavioural, TV and Media Psychologist, Relationship Counsellor and Dating Coach, Author, TV and Radio Broadcaster and Public Speaker

Jo Hemmings is a Behavioural Psychologist and a Full Member (FMBPsS) of the British Psychological Society (BPS) She is also an Accredited and Organisational Coach with the Association of Coaching (AOC). She specialises in media and news analysis as well as a being a relationship counsellor and TV and radio personality. She was voted Dating Expert of the Year twice at the UK Dating Awards.

With a degree from the University of Warwick and further training at the University of London, Jo is the UK’s best known and respected Behavioural Psychologists and was the UK’s first Dating Coach. She runs a private counselling and coaching practice in Hove, East Sussex. She also runs workplace wellbeing sessions, via Zoom or in person, for companies of any size.

Jo regularly appears on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, GB News, Talk TV and Sky News as well as a number of documentaries. She also advises behind the scenes on reality, documentary, and news shows, in the contestant selection process, by giving psychological advice, assessment and Duty of Care to reality TV producers and contestants before and during the selection procedure and throughout the filming and TX as well as providing participant aftercare. She also works with crew welfare on TV productions.

Psychological screening is now a regular part of the audition process. This ensures the participants are psychologically robust and stable enough to take part, or in certain situations continue, in reality or entertainment shows is the essence of Duty of Care. Jo has provided this service for a number of production companies, news and TV channels, including Endemol, TLC, RDF, Sky TV, Britain’s Got Talent, X Factor and all the terrestrial TV channels. Recent TV shows include Married at First Sight, 90 Day Fiancé and The Sidemen: Inside. She has full professional indemnity and public liability insurance and holds a current Enhanced DBS Certificate, issued by the NHS to work with adults and children in any mental health capacity.

She is asked for her psychological observations on newsworthy topics on the radio, on a daily basis and can be heard each week on many radio stations including BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Five Live, LBC, Times Radio, BBC Radio Scotland, and many regional BBC stations.

Jo is the author of several successful books on psychology and relationships, and writes regularly for the national press, including The Guardian, The Sunday Mirror, The Daily Mail, The Times and The Telegraph. She also contributes weekly features for The Sun as a celebrity psychologist. With over 30.000 Twitter followers, from all over the world, Jo also publicises her media work effectively and quickly. Jo is currently ranked at number 2 in the UK, and number 17 in the world, in the 30 most prominent psychologists on twitter by bestpsychologydegrees.com. Follow Jo on @TVPsychologist.

Jo’s last book How Psychology Works (Dorling Kindersley 2018) was published to international acclaim and she is currently writing The Price of Fame: a psychology of modern celebrity.

She has a passion for encouraging psychology students to go into media psychology and has given well-received talks on the subject to many universities including Warwick, Trinity College, Dublin and Birkbeck College.

If a celebrity, sports or reality TV star has personal or professional concerns, or is simply behaving in an uncharacteristic or newsworthy way, Jo can provide immediate, expert and informed psychological comment, body language analysis and advice – whether for PR companies, magazines, the national press, radio or TV production companies, news and shows.

For more information on Jo Hemmings visit www.johemmings.co.uk. Her other websites are www.tvdutyofcare.co.uk and www.therelationshipcounsellor.co.uk