Damian White
Damian White is a UKCP registered psychotherapist. He trained in humanistic counselling at the University of Brighton before completing an advanced training in existential counselling and psychotherapy at Regent’s College, London. His work is informed by person-centred, existential and post-modern ideas.
Damian's interest in psychotherapy emerged from his experiences as an international humanitarian worker in Africa and his training for a Masters in Social Work. The latter included extensive individual and group work experience in a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre. He then spent seven years working in an NHS clinical and counselling psychology unit providing both short and long term psychotherapy. Damian currently works in a specialist psychotherapy unit in the NHS and also has a private practice in London and Brighton.
Damian’s work centres on a respect for each individual’s unique ways of being in the world and a belief that individuals cannot be considered separately from their relationships with others and the contexts in which they exist. Such work does not provide answers or a magic cure for life’s everyday mysteries and discontents, but rather an opportunity for people to clarify both their own distinctive ways of engaging with the world and the choices available to them.
In addition to his primary clinical work as a psychotherapist Damian provides pastoral care to students at the University of Sussex and lecturers in individual and group psychotherapy at various universities and colleges in the South East. He also offers cognitive behavioural therapy, CBT where it is appropriate.