Dr. Daniele Damiani

Dr. Daniele Damiani is an English-speaking psychologist and psychotherapist in Florence. He offers in-person sessions in Florence and works online, in English and Italian, with adults and young adults.

Since the pandemic his practice has been predominantly online, and that is not a fallback arrangement: he has built extensive experience in remote psychological work with patients across Italy, Australia, Canada, Germany, Peru, the United States and Switzerland. For anyone whose life crosses borders, this is the practical difference between a therapy that survives a relocation and one that ends with it.

He specialises in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and in Integration-Focused Therapy, and works with trauma using EMDR, the protocol designed for memories that stay charged long after the event and do not settle through talking alone.

His English is not a school qualification: it was built through clinical practice with English-speaking patients and international training. In therapy that distinction matters, because the vocabulary you need is the one for feelings, not the one for meetings.

He also provides expert psychological consultation for legal cases involving separation and divorce. For people going through a separation in a country that is not their own, and often in a legal system they do not know, that combination of clinical and forensic competence is rare.

Outside the consulting room he is committed to research and to the role of emerging technologies in psychology, and sits on the board of the Italian Society of Psychedelic Medicine (SIMEPSI), which studies the potential of these approaches for treatment-resistant psychiatric conditions. It is a research and scientific-society role: the therapy he offers his own patients is the CBT, EMDR and integration-focused work described above.

He maintains his own practice of meditation, Tai Chi in the Nanjing form and Qi Gong. Therapists who do their own work tend to be easier to sit with.

You do not have to pick him yourself. At Therapsy every person is matched by a human being, not by an algorithm: our clinical team reads your request, and if Dr. Damiani is the right fit for what you are bringing, they will introduce you. The first call is free, and it is there to check that the fit is real before anything begins.

Fewer than 1 in 100 therapists joins the Therapsy team. Dr. Damiani was personally vetted by our Clinical Director, Dr. Francesca A. Boccalari, on three non-negotiable criteria: he shares our values, he speaks at least one language beyond Italian, and he has a physical practice in Florence where you can meet in person, not only online.

Daniele Damiani does not work alone. He takes part in Therapsy’s internal clinical supervision, a standing group where therapists bring their most demanding cases, train together and ask for help when a situation calls for it. Every therapist in the network, Case Managers included, can turn to our Clinical Director for clinical questions and further training, and Therapsy runs regular professional training with senior therapists and external trainers. Scheduling, invoicing, payments and the rest of the paperwork are handled by Therapsy, so that his time with you stays clinical work and nothing else. On your side, the same platform gives you one place to see your sessions, invoices, payments and documents.

At Therapsy you do not have to pick your therapist from a list: you start by speaking with Dr. Francesca Boccalari, our Clinical Director, who listens to what you are going through and matches you with the therapist she believes is right for you: Daniele Damiani, or one of his colleagues. Then you have a free introductory call with that therapist, and only after that do you decide whether to start.

And if the fit turns out not to be right, you are not back at square one. Dr. Boccalari and her team find you another therapist inside Therapsy, at no cost, without you having to tell your story from the beginning. Choosing a therapist while you are struggling, in a language that is not your own, is a lot to ask of a person. That is the part we take on.

Dr. Damiani is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists. He receives in Florence and works online with patients across Italy and abroad.