I’m Damien, an Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist working with individuals experiencing overwhelming emotions, relationship and intimacy difficulties, long-standing trauma, and patterns that feel deeply ingrained or hard to shift. I often work with those who feel sceptical about therapy or unsure what to expect, and who want something thoughtful, serious, and grounded rather than superficial or directive.
Before training as a psychotherapist, I spent over a decade working in London, both as an Assistant Clinical Psychologist in secure services and as a team manager at Inspired, a specialist personality disorder service. Through this work, I developed a deep understanding of complex emotional difficulties, but became increasingly drawn to approaches that address the deeper psychological causes of distress rather than focusing solely on coping strategies or symptom management.
My work is relational and depth-focused, with an emphasis on building trust over time. I don’t rely heavily on diagnostic labels; instead, I focus on how past experiences, relationships, and attachment patterns continue to shape the present. Many clients work with me long term, particularly when difficulties have persisted for many years.
I offer a calm, reflective, and confidential space where trust builds gradually at your pace. Therapy with me isn’t about being told what to do, but about understanding yourself more fully and creating meaningful, lasting change.
I offer sessions in Cavendish Square (Harley Street area) and Highbury Fields.
I first trained in Psychology at Trinity College, Dublin and later completed an MSc in Clinical Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Before qualifying as a psychotherapist, I worked across NHS and voluntary-sector services supporting people living with trauma, intense emotions, and experiences sometimes diagnosed as EUPD. This work highlighted how often emotional pain is rooted in lived experience rather than pathology.
I went on to complete four years of UKCP-accredited training in attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Bowlby Centre.
Across all my roles, my focus has been on understanding each person’s emotional world with depth, care, and respect for their lived experience.
Many of the men I work with experience difficulties rooted in early relationships and past experiences, including overwhelming emotions, anxiety, shame, self-criticism, attachment challenges, emotional loneliness, trauma, childhood sexual abuse, feelings of being misunderstood, emotional dysregulation, and issues related to sex, intimacy, and sexuality.
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