About Damian
Damian Laidler is an ACA counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. He uses clear, practical ways to manage difficult feelings and cope with life changes. Damian listens without judgment and focuses on skills people can use between sessions.
He trained in counselling at ACAP University College and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Counselling. He has seven years of experience working with issues such as trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, parenting stress, compassion fatigue and ADHD.
Background and approach
His membership of the Australian Counselling Association is part of how he keeps his practice professional and ethical. Damian draws on several practical approaches when people need tools to feel steadier. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
He applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours. He also includes mindfulness and client-centred methods to build present-moment coping and a trusting therapeutic relationship. Sessions are aimed at building skills and finding small changes that add up.
Damian often blends approaches to match a person's goals and pace. He explains techniques plainly and gives short exercises to practise between meetings. People who choose Damian can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through painful experiences and practical steps to move forward.
He focuses on boosting coping, increasing self-awareness and supporting clearer decision-making.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions aligned with those values. Online ACT sessions focus on practical steps, mindfulness exercises and short-homework tasks to build more meaningful routines. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches tools to challenge unhelpful thinking patterns. In remote sessions CBT is often paired with worksheets, behavioural experiments and easy check-ins to track progress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Damian will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then adapt methods to suit their needs. He mixes ACT, CBT and client-centred techniques as needed and reviews what is helping across sessions so adjustments can be made together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and real-time exercises, while phone sessions can fit a work break or low-bandwidth situations. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style support or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of working to see what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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