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Individual shadow work sessions
Individual shadow work sessions
What issues can I bring?
What issues can I bring?
Alasdair Kirk
Immersive & Embodied Shadow Work Sessions
IFS Informed Psychotherapy
Reclaim Your Wholeness
If you are experiencing dissatisfaction, shame, disconnection, challenges in your relationships, or a lack of fulfilment in your life, it does not mean that you are flawed or that there is something wrong with you.
You are not broken...
With the right care and holding, it is possible to turn towards these experiences and move through them, even if you feel completely lost, hopeless, and have no idea where to begin.
I love working with people who are willing to engage in a deeper inner conversation, and to stay with the work, and with themselves, long enough to find out what becomes possible when they do.
Shadow Work, IFS & Depth-Oriented Therapy
I am an experienced therapist and I offer depth-oriented therapy through Shadow Work Long-Form Sessions and Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed psychotherapy. This is embodied, experiential, relational work that goes beyond talking, supporting you to engage directly with the deeper aspects of your psyche where transformation and lasting change becomes possible.
You don't need to arrive with a problem to solve. Many people come because something feels stuck, painful, or unresolved, and they want company in turning towards it. I don't hold an agenda for you or your life, and I won't treat you as something to be fixed.
This work unfolds best when it's held over time, in a relationship that can support ongoing exploration and integration. Some people begin with a long-form session in person; others begin online, weekly or fortnightly. Either way, what matters most to me is the relationship we build and your willingness to step into the work together.
Based in the UK, I work with individuals motivated to engage in meaningful, long-term change through relational and trauma-informed therapeutic work.
If that sounds like what you're looking for, let's talk.
How I Work
I offer two ways to begin. Whichever you choose, we go at a pace that feels right for you.
Long-Form Shadow Work Sessions
Five hours, in person. For many people this is a way of working they have never experienced before. Long-form shadow work sessions provide an immersive and transformative container for deep, sensitive exploration of the issues you are bringing - or returning to - through symbolic externalisation and mapping, focused embodied parts work and therapeutic process work.
This unique approach provides the time and space for a depth of exploration and embodied process that is often not possible within more traditional therapy formats. Many clients choose to continue in a long-form format for this reason.
→ Find out more about Long-Form Sessions
Shadow Work & IFS-Informed Therapy
Seventy-five minutes, online or in person, weekly or fortnightly. A steady relationship where insights unfold gradually and patterns can be tracked over time. This work is an alliance. What grows between us matters as much as any method I use, and it will take a shape that is particular to you.
I don't hold the answers to your life; you carry them. My part is to make the room for you to explore and experience your truth. Taking steps, with patience and care, so that we discover this together.
My approach integrates the tools and philosophy of Shadow Work, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Voice Dialogue to explore and transform what lies beneath your patterns, supporting meaningful change.
For many people, this meaningful change comes not only through profound moments of insight, but through an ongoing relationship with themselves that develops over weeks and months.
You can read more about my approach to therapy here and watch a 15-minute interview (by clicking the image below) where I share how I came to this work and offer reflections on the way I work in the extended long-form sessions.
In this short piece, recorded for the Deep Release Mental Health Conference, September 2025, you can hear me talk about Shadow Work & Deep Process Psychotherapy as the foundation of my therapeutic approach in my work with clients.
Shadow Work Long-Form Sessions
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"You created an atmosphere of care and compassion that allowed me to feel comfortable exploring some truly vulnerable parts of myself."
Rebecca - London
What This Work Can Support
You don't need a particular problem to bring. Many people come with a sense that something wants attention, even if they can't name it. This work may also be helpful if you are experiencing:
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Repeating patterns in relationships
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Anxiety, depression, or emotional overwhelm
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A sense of disconnection from yourself or others
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Inner conflict or feeling “split” between different parts of yourself
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A sense of being hi-jacked by feelings or thoughts that are confusing and hard to understand
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The impact of early experiences, attachment wounds, or trauma
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A desire for deeper self-understanding and integration
A Deeper Approach to Psychotherapy
My approach to therapy and healing is rooted in Jungian depth psychology and draws on the philosophies and approaches of Shadow Work, and other parts-based models such as Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Voice Dialog, to understand and come into relationship with the unconscious patterns, beliefs and behaviours that can shape our lives and hold us back.
Together, we explore your lived experience and relevant aspects of your history, bringing awareness and transformation to unconscious patterns, protective strategies, and disowned aspects of the self.
Through this process, many people find they reconnect with their innate strengths and capacities, moving towards greater emotional resilience, authenticity, confidence, and a more joyful way of being.
Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction, this approach supports:
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Integration of the shadow (unconscious or rejected aspects of self)
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Understanding what protective patterns are guarding, and coming into relationship with them
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Processing unresolved emotional experiences and childhood trauma
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Developing a more connected and authentic relationship with yourself
By gently turning towards the parts of ourselves that need our help, care and attention, we cultivate an intimate, grounded kind of inner attunement. From this place, we can be more present with our experience, relate more authentically with ourselves, and deepen our connection with the people in our lives who matter most.
Shadow Work Therapy & Internal Family Systems (IFS)
The parts of us in shadow are those aspects of ourselves that at some point (and for good reason) we decided it was best to ignore, repress or deny.
When we struggle to identify clearly why things are so challenging in our lives, it is likely that we are being influenced by the parts of us that are held in our shadow and the patterns, behaviours and beliefs we have adopted to keep them there.
All this operates below our level of awareness but directly influences our thoughts, feelings and actions as we move through our relationships and our lives.
We all have a shadow side and it is the parts of us in shadow, the limiting beliefs and stuck emotions which are often the unconscious driver behind our barriers to growth and joyful living.
Shadow Work involves identifying, accessing and engaging directly with internal dynamics and aspects of yourself that may have been suppressed, denied, or pushed out of awareness, so that they can be integrated in a healthy way.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) offers one useful map for understanding the psyche as made up of different "parts", each with its own role and function, that relate with each other in recognisable ways. This offers an orientation for healing.
By working with these approaches together, we can begin to:
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Track triggers and patterns to understand the origins of inner conflict
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Reduce inner tension, fragmentation and overwhelm
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Understand reactive behaviours and protective strategies, and what they are protecting
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Attend to emotional wounds and parts of you that hold, fear, shame, guilt, sadness or rage
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Support greater integration and self-leadership
As we identify, explore and come into relationship with parts of our psyche, and unburden ourselves from limiting beliefs, behaviours and stuck emotions, what emerges is an integrity and an authentic expression of our true self; a wholeness from which flows greater engagement and enjoyment of life.
Working Together
I am passionate about creating a supportive and shame-free space where both men and women can feel safe enough to connect deeply and honestly with themselves.
I meet you human to human. I will not relate to you as a problem to be solved, and I do not hold an agenda for you or your life. The work unfolds collaboratively, in a grounded, confidential and relational space, at a pace that feels safe and appropriate for you.
A productive therapeutic relationship is built on support, trust and genuine connection. It may encompass different approaches and ways of working, and take many different shapes - in fact, the therapeutic relationship takes a shape that will be particular to you.
Whether you are new to therapy or have done extensive inner work, sessions are tailored to meet you where you are.
Experience has taught me to be wary of quick fixes. Insight can arrive like a flash, and a real experience of truth can come through any good therapeutic encounter. But the patterns we carry into later life took time to bed in, and healing them and embedding lasting change takes time too. A realistic approach to that is something I value, and something I invite.
Begin Here
If this resonates, you are welcome to schedule an initial long-form session, schedule an initial 75-minute session, or schedule an initial free 20-minute consultation.
Schedule an Initial Long-Form Shadow Work Session
Five-hour, one-to-one, in-person sessions: an immersive space for deep, sensitive exploration of the issues you are bringing or returning to, through focused embodied parts work and therapeutic process work.
→ Click here to find out more about shadow work long-form sessions
£350–£500 (sliding scale)
Schedule an Initial 75-minute Session - Shadow Work & IFS-Informed Therapy
These 75-minute integrated sessions draw on my training and extensive experience in both Shadow Work and Internal Family Systems (IFS), bringing the two approaches together in a fluid and responsive way.
→ Click here to find out more more about my approach in these sessions
£85–£125 per 75-minute session (sliding scale)
Schedule a Free 20-Minute Consultation
A free 20-minute phone or Zoom call: a space for us to connect, to see whether this is right for both of us, and for you to ask any questions before deciding how you'd like to proceed.
"Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the splits and confusions of our lives, or we surrender to something greater than ourselves. The water of our deepest troubles is also the water of our own solution. In surrender, we descend down to the bottom of it and back to the beginning of it; down into what is divided in order to get back to the wholeness before the split. Healing, health, wealth, wholeness: all hail from the same roots. To heal is to make whole again; wholeness is what all healing seeks and what alone can truly unify our Spirit."
Michael Meade
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