Alan McNeill

Alan McNeill is a Glasgow-based therapist with 24 years' experience, with a background in the NHS, private practice and work for organisations such as LGBT Health, Gay men’s Health, hospice services and Chai Cancer Care.

He mainly supports people who are finding it difficult to cope with the consequences of a challenging childhood. These difficulties can stem from family dysfunction, childhood bereavement, parents with addiction, domestic abuse, or from growing up feeling different to those around them - for example as a result of being LGBTQI+.

Those experiences commonly leave adults dealing with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, difficulties with social confidence or social skills, and repeating unhelpful relationship patterns. He also provides therapy for people living with trauma, survivors of abuse, and those coping with grief and loss.

Alan believes that each person is the expert on their own story and that they carry resources that can help them move forward. His role is to help locate and strengthen those resources and to offer an approach that helps contain past events using a child/adult model alongside Mindfulness, with the aim of enabling more effective functioning in the present without the same hold from earlier experiences.

He recognises that taking the first step toward a more fulfilling life takes courage, and he is available to support people through that process.