Dr Stephanie Dowrick (Ph.D., D.Min) is Australia’s most original and successful writer in the fields of psychological and spiritual wellbeing. Formerly a publisher, and founding MD of the London-based publishing house, The Women’s Press, she is also a trained psychotherapist and an ordained Interfaith minister. Her many books aim to make complex, much-needed ideas and insights accessible and meaningful to a very wide range of readers.

Her international best sellers include the groundbreaking Intimacy & Solitude, Forgiveness & Other Acts of Love, The Universal Heart, Choosing Happiness: Life & Soul Essentials, and Seeking the Sacred: Transforming our view of ourselves and one another. Her key book on effective self-therapy to manage anxiety, stress and depression is Your Name is Not Anxious: A very personal guide to putting anxiety in its place. Its title directly expresses her decades-long interest in how we form our identity, what we identify with, and whether or how this supports us in our vital connections with others and in gaining a steady sense of self.

She is a two-time Nautilus Award winner (USA), and also a COVR Award winner (USA).

Stephanie Dowrick is widely known, too, as a psychological and spiritual retreat leader and speaker, and as a teacher of writing and a literary guide. She has written two highly praised novels for adults and two for children. In addition, she is the author of In the Company of Rilke, and co-writer with Mark S. Burrows of You Are the Future: Living the Questions With Rainer Maria Rilke. Her totally updated Creative Journal Writing: A guided journey of self-expression, personal growth, and supportive reflection is published in 2025, as is the American edition (St Martin’s Press) of Your name is not Anxious. 

Dr Dowrick lives in Australia in both Sydney and Darwin, is active on social media, teaching locally as well as globally via Zoom. www.stephaniedowrick.com.

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For further information in USA, please contact sophia.lauriello@stmartins.com