Brenda is a former Head of Drama at an international school, the one-time owner of Fetish Fashion and a BDSM activist, a certified counsellor and a promoter of opera and chamber music through her family foundation, Foundation for Arts and Music in Asia. In her counselling she has a particular interest in working with minority sexualities.
She edits and contributes to magazines and is the immediate past Chairman of the Samaritans in Hong Kong, a suicide prevention NGO. Brenda has been guest lecturer for universities around Hong Kong in sexual and gender diversity and is active in training university students to become peer counsellors in the area of suicide prevention.