WELCOME

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Most people arrive here carrying something that has become too heavy, or too tangled, to keep holding alone. You don’t need to have found the words for it yet. You don’t need to have waited until it got “bad enough”. Wanting to put it down somewhere is reason enough to be here.

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My name is Debbra Winton. I’m a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist — registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and a member of the BACP (MBACP). Alongside one-to-one therapy, my work has grown through my time in a bookshop, through facilitating groups and trainings, and through working with meaning, imagination and the body as much as with talk. 

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I work relationally — which is a plain way of saying that the thing between us, the trust we build, is where much of the healing happens. My aim is to meet what you bring with curiosity, care and respect, and for us to pay attention to pace together, so the work has enough room without becoming overwhelming. You don’t have to perform being well, interesting, or grateful. You can come as you are.

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What rewilding means here

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Rewilding, as I understand it, is a way of loosening the rigid or constricted patterns that can shape our relationship with ourselves and the world — making room for a fuller, freer, more rooted life.

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Somewhere along the way, many of us grow narrow — pruned back by what we’ve survived, until we mistake the smaller shape for who we are. Rewilding is the slow work of letting life back in: reaching down for roots as much as up for light, and trusting that something truer can grow again.

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Alongside talking, we might work with image, myth, poetry, dream, the body and the natural world. The natural world is part of the language of Rewilding Therapy, but ordinary one-to-one sessions take place in my Archway room or online.

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A note about Esmeralda (and Banjo)

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My dog Esmeralda is a calm, steadying presence, and for many people she becomes a quiet part of the work — something warm to rest your eyes on when the words are hard to find. My cat Banjo occasionally makes an appearance too, on his own terms.

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If you’d rather not have animals in the room, just say.

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Working together

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I see people in person in Archway, North London, and online. Sessions are weekly and usually ongoing — there's more about how that works on the Getting Started page.

 

If any of this speaks to you, you're welcome to get in touch.

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