Shona Neal

Shona Neal is a Teaching Professor (Counselling) at Keele University's School of Medicine, working part-time with a one-day weekly commitment. She combines academic roles with a private counselling practice and charity work addressing childhood sexual abuse. Her expertise spans person-centred/humanistic counselling, relationship counselling (Relate-trained), and EMDR therapy.

Her research interests focus on Relational Depth in therapy, mindfulness, self-compassion, mortality, and qualitative research methodologies like auto-ethnography. She leads the 'Integration in Counselling' module and has presented work on Collective Biography research at the BACP Conference (2012).

No formal academic awards are listed, though her professional contributions to counselling education and clinical practice are notable. She advises students through her teaching role and collaborates with Keele's Clinical Education Centre.