Alan McNeill, BACP

Alan McNeill is a Glasgow-based therapist with 24 years of clinical experience across the NHS, private practice and organisations including LGBT Health, Gay men's Health, Hospice and Chai Cancer Care. He specialises in supporting people whose lives have been shaped by difficult childhoods - for example family dysfunction, childhood bereavement, parents with addiction, domestic abuse, or growing up feeling different, such as due to LGBTQI+ identity. These early experiences can contribute to anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, social confidence difficulties and repeating relationship patterns, and he works with people facing those challenges.

He also provides care for those living with trauma, abuse, and for people coping with grief and loss. Alan approaches therapy from a perspective that recognises the person as the expert on their own story, helping clients to find and develop the internal resources they already possess. He uses a child/adult model alongside mindfulness techniques to help people contain and make sense of past events so they can function more effectively in the present.

Alan holds BACP accreditation - membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which indicates professional affiliation with that national body. He frames therapy as a collaborative process and offers steady support for those taking the courageous first step toward a more fulfilling life.