Alastair Stewart

Monday to Thursday including evenings.

Some Fridays through to early afternoon. 

I’m a male therapist working in in the northern Quarter of Manchester UK on Mondays and Tuesdays face to face… other days I offer online appointments and face to face in Lancaster. I’ve worked for over 20 years as a somatic /psychotherapist and clinically supervised for over a decade. I’ve studied what I would say are complementary forms of psychotherapy, some more explicitly using mindfulness.

I’m interested in how we embody experience because everything we are is expressed through our body. So to be present with our body and to understand and speak from this experience is hugely empowering. I offer 60 minute sessions usually once or twice a week. 

My practice is an integration of Hakomi, IFS, and Person-centred… Hakomi offers me a deep way of connecting and profoundly informs me on how to meet another in relationship. Internal Family Systems is a great tool into the dynamics that occur within the psyche. My initial foundational training of Person-centred is a wide gateway into the whole politic of humanistic therapy. Ultimately this is about empowering the individual to accept themselves to a depth that opens their opportunity to be connected to a wider humanity. 

The nature of my work is as diverse as my clients plus the accumulation of a reasonably well lived life. I’m curious and offer quite a relaxed therapeutic space. I want to feel into my clients’ world, and believe experience to be our greatest teacher. I try to walk my talk..

I think the relationship between the therapist and client to be significant, in fact pivotal to therapy working; another important dimension is the curiosity of the client. If someone is coming to me just to talk about everyone else or to be somehow magically healed they’re going to be disappointed. Therapy (at least how I do it) involves deepening our awareness on how we turn towards or away from the life we are living.  

I offer an initial free half hour video or phone call to feel if we are suitable in working together. My client contract is available on request at this point. A contract will be sent to you after our 1st paid session.