Liz Hall obituary

My friend and colleague Liz Hall, who has died aged 71 of cancer, was a psychotherapist whose work with survivors of sexual abuse helped to develop therapeutic practice significantly in that area.

Over the years Liz was involved in devising and delivering multidisciplinary training on sexual abuse, starting in 1987 when she co-authored, with me, Surviving Child Sexual Abuse: A Handbook for Helping Women Challenge Their Past, which was the first book in the UK for women who had been abused as children. She was often ahead of her time, both in her thinking and her therapeutic practice.