Alan Curley

Public Health, Health improvement and promotion, Leadership, Addictions (smoking, cannabis, alcohol, drugs), Motivational interviewing, Mental health, CBT, Therapy, Sports Psychology, Stress/depression/anxiety, Digital Healthcare, Health Inequalities, Interventions based within pharmacy settings.

Digital health care and literacy , VR and health inequalites 

Addictions (smoking, cannabis, alcohol, drugs), Motivational interviewing, Mental health, CBT, Therapy, Sports Psychology, Stress/depression/anxiety, Digital Healthcare, Health Inequalities.

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Dr. Alan Curley PhD, is a registered member of the Faculty of public Health (FPH)  and the BABCP

Dr Curley, PhD,  studied Medical Biochemistry and Neuro-transmission, Counselling and CBT at Glasgow University. He then completed his PhD Doctorate in ‘Factors affecting Brain signalling and receptor-regulation at Imperial College, University of London and also at the University of Oxford. During his studies he worked with families at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. He has over 7 papers published.

In 2000, After completing his PhD, he worked at Glasgow University and went on to develop smoking cessation addiction services for the NHS.  Dr. Curley currently devises  CBT-based intensive tobacco, alcohol, and drug treatment programmes , as well as harm reduction interventions for helping complex clients to make changes to their alcohol or drug use.

He has trained at Glasgow University with Dr. Chris Williams and his 5 Areas CBT approach to dealing with stress, anxiety and depression, which is now used as NICE guideline treatment of  Stress, Anxiety & Depression.  In 2005,  Dr. Curley devised  an intensive addiction intervention for  helping clients who experience severe  Health and social inequalities. This 12 week evidence-based system called the PILAR Change system (Personal-Imagery Linked Active Repetition),  incorporates theory and techniques from CBT, NLP, hypnotherapy, addiction research, Learning & Groupwork psychology, motivation psychology and sports psychology. This program has been routinely adopted by various addictions clinics and sports psychologists to help those individuals who find it hardest to change. This PILAR program has appeared in many articles in the Media, TV and Radio.

In 2016, Dr. Curley began to lecture at the UWS London Campus University on Healthcare. He currently delivers training courses on Public health, Leadership, addiction, groupwork skills, and advanced motivation and behaviour change programs for the hardest to change clients.