Dr Alistair McBeath is a Chartered Psychologist and UKCP registered psychotherapist. Trained at Regents College and Guys Hospital, he is a Senior Lecturer on the DCPsych programme at the Metanoia Institute. He also works for an Edinburgh-based therapeutic consultancy. Alistair considers himself to be a researcher-practitioner and is keen to promote this identity within the psychotherapy profession. He is a strong advocate of mixed methods research and has authored several research projects using this approach.
Alistair favours a collaborative approach to research and has worked extensively with Dr Sofie Bager-Charleson across a range of practitioner-relevant issues, and they co-edited the popular books Enjoying Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy and Supporting Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Alistair is a senior practitioner member on the BPS Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy and co-editor of the European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy. He is an accredited research supervisor by the United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education.
