About Alastair Stewart:
I have been working therapeutically with mindfulness for some ten years. My methods continue to evolve as I train and further my own practices. I have lived and studied with zen monks, which taught me a lot about body-centred awareness and the resulting compassion in everyday life.
Therapeutically, I have a Diploma in Humanistic Counselling and have trained in and continue to study Hakomi Psychotherapy. My practice works on the following principles:
- Unity – acknowledging everything as part of a greater whole
- Organicity – the experience of healing from the inside out
- Mindfulness – the practice of noticing present experience
- Nonviolence – respecting the wholeness of each of us
I am an Associate Member of the UK Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners (UKAHPP) and receive regular supervision.
My mission statement: is not to have one. I’ve been attempting to hang out with the natural occurring chaos of life for the last 14 years or so and I’m slowly getting easier with it!
Supervision with Alastair
As a therapist I see myself as an experiential based practitioner and I like to bring this into my supervisory work. With that quality of being alongside and the loving presence essential for my Hakomi practice, I offer supervisory sessions to therapists throughout the spectrum of the psychotherapeutic field. I would only ask that you have an interest in your own assisted self-study and a genuine bent for lessening people’s suffering. In the words of Germain Lietaer:
‘The therapist can never bring the client further than where he is as a person.’
My formal training as a supervisor has come from Jenny Biancardi and Rima Handley, both experienced trainers and therapists. Their approach is person-centred and integrative in nature. I have been on numerous workshops from group facilitation to psychodrama. I see my own practice as integrative.