Alastair is a UK qualified GP, MRCGP, Fellow of Edinburgh University with a lifelong interest in mental health research and recovery. He ran an NHS clinic for 10 years from 1992, taking referrals from other GPs and using a variety of psychotherapeutic techniques to help distressed patients, ego state therapy, NLP, coaching and psychotherapy. His research led him to co-develop an audio based Positive Mental Training, PosMT now in the Feeling Good app, based on elite sports coaching, recognising the common factors in peak performance and recovery from distress: visualisation driven by positive self-determining memory networks, a new paradigm in distress and recovery, in Edinburgh University and others since 2017 for students and staff wellbeing and recovery.