Dr. Damis’s Treatment Approach: In the context of a supportive and non-judgmental relationship, Dr. Damis takes an active role as a consultant and therapist identifying factors in ones’ life contributing to their concerns. He is first interested in fully understanding his clients’ experience and appreciating their efforts to cope effectively. Dr. Damis believes that his clients have many strengths and are doing the best that they can. He brings to them new perspectives for understanding,
discovering, and changing the things that may be holding them back and works to empower them to move forward constructively in their personal development and healing. He assists his clients in moving beyond the elimination of distress and to the attainment of optimal functioning, mastery, and happiness.
 Dr. Damis integrates mind, body, and spiritual aspects of healing and growth in his work. In addition, he takes an eclectic approach that is informed by developmental, interpersonal, attachment, mindfulness-based, cognitive-behavioral, acceptance-based, dynamic, psychophysiological, EMDR, and energy/positive psychology therapies. |
Dr. Damis’s Professional Background:
Dr. Damis attained a Bachelors of Arts degree in Psychology with a specialty in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1978. He then earned M.S and Ph.D. degrees from Washington State University in Clinical Psychology in 1985 and 1987, respectively.
After completing a pre-doctoral internship in Medical Psychology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Salt Lake City, UT and post-doctoral residency in Clinical and Forensic Psychology at the Utah State Prison, he moved to the Northeast where he worked for the Harvard Group Health Association and served as a consulting psychologist for the Brown University affiliated Miriam Hospital.
Dr. Damis then joined the staff of the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC where he provided inpatient and outpatient services and taught in their medical residency program. He subsequently relocated to the Orlando area and worked for six years at Florida Hospital’s Division of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine.
In addition to his credentials, research, and teaching experience, Dr. Damis is a Past President of the Washington, DC Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Central Chapter of the Florida Psychological Association. He has also served as a board member for the Florida Society of Clinical Hypnosis, as Adjunct Faculty for the Florida Institute of Technology, and, for the last twelve years as, Faculty for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
Dr. Damis is in independent practice.
Dr. Damis attained a Bachelors of Arts degree in Psychology with a specialty in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1978. He then earned M.S and Ph.D. degrees from Washington State University in Clinical Psychology in 1985 and 1987, respectively.
After completing a pre-doctoral internship in Medical Psychology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Salt Lake City, UT and post-doctoral residency in Clinical and Forensic Psychology at the Utah State Prison, he moved to the Northeast where he worked for the Harvard Group Health Association and served as a consulting psychologist for the Brown University affiliated Miriam Hospital.
Dr. Damis then joined the staff of the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC where he provided inpatient and outpatient services and taught in their medical residency program. He subsequently relocated to the Orlando area and worked for six years at Florida Hospital’s Division of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine.
In addition to his credentials, research, and teaching experience, Dr. Damis is a Past President of the Washington, DC Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Central Chapter of the Florida Psychological Association. He has also served as a board member for the Florida Society of Clinical Hypnosis, as Adjunct Faculty for the Florida Institute of Technology, and, for the last twelve years as, Faculty for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
Dr. Damis is in independent practice.
