Gudrun Helga Sederholm works as a school counsellor at a grammar school in Reykjavik, Iceland and is a trained social worker and youth counsellor. She has extensive experience of teaching in secondary schools in Denmark and Iceland and has been teaching social work students at the University of Iceland for several years. Heading committees for the Icelandic Ministry of Health, she has helped to develop their school counselling programme. She has also published books for children as well as numerous articles in the fields of teaching, counselling and child welfare.