The author is a respected and an accomplished counselling psychologist with extensive experience in working with the emotionally wounded people who are struggling to find healing. She is the author of two books: Successful Blended Families: Promoting Great Stepfamilies (2012) and Towards a Better Understanding of the Midlife Transition: Understanding the Second Adolescence (2009). She holds a doctoral degree in psychology and has lectured at three universities in South Africa. She is married to Pastor Rapitsi and is currently in private practice as a psychologist.