Kim Billington has a Masters in Counselling and a Grad Dip in Narrative Therapy. She has worked as a family violence counsellor, coordinator of a children's counselling team, Mensline counsellor and as an adoptions counsellor. She learnt about 'Shame Shifting' from Timothy O'Leary, who developed a model to assist people to make sense of the way sex offenders target, engage and control their victims.