Nancye Cottrell is an accredited Counsellor and Counselling Supervisor and has her own Counselling and Supervision practice. She worked in prison chaplaincy with the Victorian Office of Corrections for 13 years and has also been a chaplain in aged care and palliative care. She has completed a Diploma in Pastoral Ministries (from the University of Divinity) and a Graduate Diploma in Loss and Grief Counselling (from Victoria University).