Leonora Langley has divided her professional life between education and journalism, beginning as a teacher in the 1970s. In the 1980s she became increasingly active as a journalist and in 1984 she moved to the USA, where she created and for four years edited a lifestyle magazine for The Hollywood Reporter. From 1988, she was the first west-coast editor of the US edition of Elle magazine and became a regular contributor to Bon Appetit magazine. Returning to the UK in the 1990s, she resumed teaching, specialising in music, English and drama, in the process liaising with world-class organisations such as Glyndebourne Opera. More recently, she has qualified as a counsellor and, through the aegis of music in her role as a piano tutor, she has facilitated an outlet for her students’ emotions. Leonora Langley is a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, an Associate of the New Era Academy of Drama and Music and her M.A. explored aesthetics in relation to drama in education.
As the stigma and taboos around mental health issues soften, unparalleled numbers of people are seeking counselling, psychotherapy and life coaching. Millions of viewers are transfixed to the emotional traumas played out in reality TV shows, soaps and dramas such as Homecoming, The Bodyguard and Wan...
