Career
Hooper is a marital counselor, a sex therapist (BASRT) and was part of the first wave of pioneer United Kingdom sex therapists. Hooper was a regular columnist on the Daily Mail, introducing sexual subject matter to its readers in the early 1990s and also had columns in Cosmopolitan, First Magazine, Best, and Bella. As a reforming feminist, she ensured that her writing was non-sexist at a time when others had not yet adapted their attitudes.
She was a long-term radio presenter of the Counselling Programme on LBC in London and the first agony aunt for the first national cable television station in the United Kingdom (Wire television).
Currently she is consultant to Amora – the Academy of Sex and Relationships. Anne Hooper has been happily ‘unmarried’ to counselling and radio guru Phillip Hodson for over 30 years with whom she has one talented son, Alex Hooper-Hodson (author of "The Boy Files", ex-columnist for Sugar magazine and current weekly columnist writing "Teen Talk" for The Daily Record.
She is also mother to Barnaby and Joel Levy. All three sons work in the media.