Andrew Smith

Dr Andrew Smith has worked in the area of sexual offending in the UK for many years, with Ray Wyre Associates, then with the Lucy Faithfull Foundation from 2006 - 2015. He has a PhD from Cardiff University (2010) for research on strengths-based approaches to sex offending, and contributes to journals and books.

A probation officer, Andrew also has an MA in Solution-Focused Therapy from Birmingham University. He is a registered member of the BACP and a member of ATSAC (Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity). He now works sessionally for the Lucy Faithfull Foundation and on a consultancy basis for social services, assessing those posing a sexual risk and the ability of parents to protect children, delivering therapeutic safeguarding packages to individuals and families.

Andrew regularly trains counsellors to work with individuals posing a sexual risk, mostly for StopSO (Specialist Treatment Organisation for Perpetrators and Survivors of Sexual Offending). He has his own counselling practice, maintaining a client base of individuals with sexual offending problems and clients who present with sexual compulsivity difficulties.