Testimonials
As someone with serious trust and abandonment issues, finding a therapist was difficult for me. I lucked out when my partner’s therapist recommended Daman! It had never occurred to me that someone with deep experience treating traumatized children would be a great fit for a 50-year-old woman who had grown up in a dysfunctional family. For the six years Daman and I have worked together (both face-to-face and virtually), his expertise in therapeutic listening with an open heart has been a source of unwavering, empowering support. Daman is knowledgeable and trained to treat trauma, depression, and relationship issues. But his true talent lies in bringing his professional training together with an appreciation for the emotional realities in our lives. I’ve referred several people to him, knowing that his flexible and non-judgmental practice will feel welcoming and safe.
My wife and I started working with Daman when we enrolled our 14-year-old daughter in a therapeutic boarding school. Our family system was broken and our relationship was suffering after years of increasingly difficult parenting. We had worked with another therapist previously, but it was not someone with experience in our type of family issues, and it was not productive. We needed a professional with the right background to help us dig in and start to understand and address the old, counterproductive patterns that had taken hold in our relationship and in our parenting. It quickly became clear that Daman knew the work and would be able to get us where we needed to go. He is insightful, engaged, and focused, and has extensive experience working with parents like us and their teenagers. Daman has been able to keep us on track and making steady progress during what has been a very challenging time for us. He has been able to define the issues and set and maintain clear goals, and keep us focused on those goals throughout almost a year’s worth of intense work. We’ve benefited tremendously from the work. It has been a different experience than the insight-oriented therapy that we’ve had in the past, where the clinician rarely makes assertions. Daman identifies and focuses on functional issues and takes a clear position on what he knows we need to work on. We have worked with him online for the most part, but have been able to have in-person sessions with him and our daughter on several occasions when we’ve travelled to our daughter’s school for local visits. He has participated in our family therapy with our daughter and her therapist on occasion, and coordinated with other professionals involved in our daughter’s treatment. Our sessions have been of uniformly very high quality, and have given us a much more solid foundation for our marriage and for our daughter. We have been very fortunate to work with Daman, and highly recommend his services to any individual or family in a similar situation.
Daman was very supportive and straight forward in my couple's therapy sessions with him. He helped my ex-partner and I identify the dysfunctional patterns in our relationship. He validated my feelings and reflected the situation back to me with honesty, which helped me gain clarity and confidence to leave an unhealthy relationship. Currently, Daman facilitates the development of parenting goals for my ex partner and I. He uses a combination of evidence based practices and his clinical experience to guide us through a very tricky situation. I am incredibly grateful to be working with Daman and highly recommend him for anyone dealing with a difficult family situation.