Sue Stuart-Smith

Sue Stuart-Smith is a prominent psychiatrist and psychotherapist who completed a degree in English Literature at Cambridge before qualifying as a doctor. She worked in the NHS for many years, becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She currently teaches at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London and is a consultant at DocHealth services.

She is married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the celebrated garden designer, and, over thirty years together, they have created the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire. Her book, The Well Gardened Mind (William Collins, 2020), analyses the relationship between gardening and mental health and was a Sunday Times Bestseller, listed as one of the 37 best books of 2020 by The Times and gardening book of the year by The Sunday Times. Stephen Fry called it ‘the wisest book I’ve read for many years’.

Photo courtesy of Harry Stuart-Smith