Winston’s Contact Details
winstonartstherapy@icloud.com
What’s brought you here today?
Are you experiencing grief that hasn’t found its place yet?
Is there a pattern in your relationships that you can see clearly but cannot seem to shift, no matter how hard you try?
Or perhaps you’re just tired: tired of carrying something on your own, tired of holding it together for everyone else.
Whatever it is, I’d like to understand it with you.
Integrated Art Psychotherapy with Winston Scotland
How I work
I’m Winston, a qualified Integrative Arts Psychotherapist. Our work together starts with talking and me getting to know what’s happened to you. What are you carrying now? How is this showing up in your life?
I also bring the arts to support the conversation. Clay, image, movement, bodywork or sand tray are available for the moments when a feeling is easier to shape than to say. You don’t need to be “good at art,” and we don’t have to use it at all if it’s not for you. Sometimes there are things that are hard to reach with words alone, where having another way in can make all the difference.
I won’t tell you what your experience means or hurry you towards a tidier version of yourself. My job is to help you feel safe enough to consider any aspects you’ve been avoiding or which are out of view. I aim to work at your pace, to notice what’s actually happening for you in the room, in your body, in your relationships.
What matters most to me is to remain curious, attending to whatever you bring, so meaning can be found together.
Who I am in the room
People who’ve worked with me tend to describe me as steady, warm, imaginative and genuinely interested, someone who listens without rushing to fix, a therapist who can sit with difficult feelings without flinching from them.
Whether you arrive with the right words, an urge to create, a jumble of feelings or nothing at all, I’ll meet you where the change or healing feels needed.
Where my experience comes from
I’ve trained and worked across an NHS acute mental health ward, a community mental health charity, a bereavement hospice in Hackney, a suicide-prevention peer support group, and my own private practice in collaboration with a community-based charity.
That range means I’ve sat closely and directly with:
- Questions of racial, cultural, or gender identity and the loneliness of not being fully seen.
- Relationship breakdown, isolation and family conflict, including domestic abuse.
- Childhood trauma: the way it quietly shapes adult relationships, self-worth and trust.
- Bereavement and grief in its many forms: sudden, delayed, doubled or tangled up with other losses.
- Chronic pain and neurodivergence: how they intertwine with mood, confidence and identity.
- Career and life-path frustration: feeling stuck, unfulfilled or like your life hasn’t matched what you hoped for.
- The unsettling effect of housing precarity on a person’s basic sense of safety and self.
- Suicidal thoughts and crisis: I spent nearly two years facilitating a peer support group for men, understanding and working to remove the stigma around asking for help in the first place.
- Intrusive or overwhelming thoughts, often rooted in trauma the body hasn’t let go of.
If more than one of these feels true for you at once, that’s normal. I work with the whole picture to discover what becomes ready to be safely revealed. People’s difficulties are often complex and layered, and don’t usually arrive one at a time.
What might change
I cannot remove what’s happened to clients, but I have witnessed the benefits in offering a steady, attentive presence so they learn to carry it. You can find out what it’s like to carry it differently, as you take a bit more room to breathe, learning to trust in your own judgement once more, and finding the words or creating the images for shifting out of feeling stuck.
My own path
Shortly after being born in London’s East End to Black- and Asian Caribbean parents, I spent my early childhood and received my secondary school education in the Netherlands, while becoming a fluent Dutch-speaker. The remainder of my formative years were spread across the UK, Canada and the USA towards an early career in travelling for work in film, television and multi-media before settling in London and dedicating myself to working in the local community.
Before training as a therapist I spent over a decade in adult education as a classroom teacher in Maths, IT and Science. As faculty lead for English and Maths in a large College of Further Education, and later as a Census Engagement Manager during the Covid pandemic, I worked to earn the trust of communities that were readily excluded in Islington and the City of London. I still rely on the lessons gained from these experiences, as I appreciate how people open up when they feel genuinely met and are offered space for making their own choices.
I’m a member of several organisations, including:
- BAAT (British Association of Arts Therapists)
- BAATN (The Black African and Asian Therapy Network), and part of their Men’s Gathering community.
- UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy)
Curious whether this could be the right fit?
We can find that out together. You can get in touch for a short conversation with absolutely no pressure to commit any further. For now, let’s just see how it feels to talk.
Contact:
winstonartstherapy@icloud.comRates:
Introductory online session (~ 10 minutes): free
Standard rate: £75 per 50-minute session
Concessionary rate: available on discussion
Sessions:
Psychotherapy sessions at Barnsbury Therapy Space:
Monday mornings 07.00 to 12.00
Directions to Barnsbury Therapy Space