Experience

Education

My name is Alan Meechan and I am a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and registered Mental Health Nurse.

I began my clinical career following my own mental health diagnosis bringing a career as an aircraft technician to a premature end.

I consider my profession as a clinician to be a vocation and privilege due to the opportunity to work with people who have had their own difficulties.

I began nursing in the NHS working with people with dementia and their families before enjoying the last 10 years working with people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which I have recently left to pursue private practice.

I am currently completing Trauma Focused CBT and EMDR training to be able to provide trauma treatment, initially with safety and stabalisation work, before processing specific traumas. I am also completing my MSc CBT with a research protocol focusing on autism.

I appreciate that choosing a therapist is a significant decision based on time, location, money and most of all, trust, therefore I encourage booking a free consultation call to discuss potentially working together.

Most of the people I work with are located in Ayrshire and Glasgow however due to the benefits of remote working I also work with people as far as the south of England.

BSc Mental Health Nursing

University West of Scotland

PgDip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Distinction

University West of Scotland

Professional Registrations & Memberships

Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

Accredited practitioner and member of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)

About me

CBT and what Factory Reset means to me

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy aims to understand how unhelpful thoughts, emotional dysregulation and safety behaviours were established, maintained and how we can begin to manage and tolerate them.

To achieve this we will explore your core beliefs, rules/assumptions and negative automatic thoughts which is known as your formulation.

I like to use the analogy that your formulation is your 'operating system' and the strategies we develop will be 'apps' that you can use to manage your thoughts, feelings and behaviours that cause you distress.

The benefit of any 'factory reset' is that we strip everything back to the aspects of your operating system which are vital to function before gradually adding the apps that you have chosen to download, not that you have been conditioned with.

Experience

Education

BSc Mental Health Nursing

University West of Scotland

Professional Registrations & Memberships

About me

CBT and what Factory Reset means to me

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy aims to understand how unhelpful thoughts, emotional dysregulation and safety behaviours were established, maintained and how we can begin to manage and tolerate them.

To achieve this we will explore your core beliefs, rules/assumptions and negative automatic thoughts which is known as your formulation.

I like to use the analogy that your formulation is your 'operating system' and the strategies we develop will be 'apps' that you can use to manage your thoughts, feelings and behaviours that cause you distress.

The benefit of any 'factory reset' is that we strip everything back to the aspects of your operating system which are vital to function before gradually adding the apps that you have chosen to download, not that you have been conditioned with.

Factory Reset CBT