Expert Health & Wealth Psychologist-A Unique Psychological Approach for High Net Worth Individuals and High Achievers.
Expert Health & Wealth Psychologist-A Unique Psychological Approach for High Net Worth Individuals and High Achievers.
I am Darren Maguire, an accredited and experienced health and wealth psychologist and psychodynamic psychotherapist specialised in complex trauma. For over 20 years I have worked with high-achieving clients around the world. I provide discreet services uniquely customized for high-profile personalities, public figures and elite individuals who desire genuine connection and help from a professional who truly understands.
With over two decades of experience in psychological health, optimum performance, lifestyle medicine and complex trauma recovery, I've developed a deep understanding of the human mind, encompassing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects. This extensive background equips me to effectively address a wide range of challenges people face. By combining the latest research in neuroscience of health and happiness and interpersonal neurobiological based approaches with personalized comprehensive lifestyle medicine, I help clients achieve meaningful lasting change and optimal psychological health. My priority for you is to create a kind of space where you feel at ease, understood and connected so that you can be yourself and work on the matters most important to you. I will help you cultivate self-compassion, curiosity, courage along with effective strategies to create the type of life you want.
Our unique holistic and comprehensive treatment programs support a wide range of emotional, physical, and psychological issues covering all kinds of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, panic disorder, eating disorders (binge eating/anorexia/bulimia), trauma & complex PTSD treatment (post-traumatic stress disorder), dual diagnosis treatment, burnout & mood treatment, ADHD Treatment, OCD Treatment, and other mental health & psychiatric treatment. Complex trauma is often an underline driver of challenging symptoms.
Darren brings the highest levels of psychological expertise, care, and discretion to his unique multidiscipline psychotherapy and lifestyle medicine coaching work with individuals, couples, and families. Darren is a complex trauma specialist, lifestyle medicine clinician and passionately obsessed with health and well being including optimal psychological health. A healthy body and mind is indeed important for us all. For many years Darren has helped clients who are elite in their own fields such as sports and tv personality, it is difficult to prioritise optimum psychological health whilst passionately pursuing a high profile career and in many cases this can lead to overlooking metal health resulting in a crash or chaotic event or loss of some kind. Working with Darren to optimise health, mind and body, will be an extraordinary investment resulting in an abundance and deepening of love, happiness and success.
I specialize in working with Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNIs) who are navigating challenging times and seeking an objective confidante. There’s a perception that wealth and tangible achievements provide greater assurance of security and happiness. However, the most elite and accomplished clients I work with all struggle with hurt and pain of life. We ALL deal with life problems such as health issues, relationship problems, insecurities, or loss and grief. Many successful people find that their status either magnifies their problems or creates additional problems, which few understand or empathize with. This often leads to isolation, loneliness, anxiety and sadness. The challenges you encounter are often compounded by guilt and embarrassment, as you suffer from stigmas and false perception that wealth is supposed to make you happier. However, there is no amount of wealth or external attainment that exonerates us from life struggle and varying pain we will feel in life. It cannot replace our internal desire for love, connection, appreciation, acceptance, and emotional wellness. Together, we can unravel the complex emotional challenges that often accompany success and help you find a renewed sense of security, purpose and fulfilment.
The careers of professional athletes, musicians, actors, and public figures are exceptionally demanding; requiring intensive preparation and continuously high levels of performance that can tax even the most elite professionals. In addition to career pressures, celebrities face relentless public scrutiny that is frequently inaccurate, unwarranted, and potentially damaging. Intrusions to conversations, personal space, and privacy are commonplace; threats to one’s safety can be ever present. Darren brings a wealth of experience, insight and expertise, deep empathy, understanding, and genuineness to the therapeutic space with high-profile clients as they work through the challenges of fame and the other difficulties of life; helping them to improve relationships; optimise performance; heal from trauma; manage grief & loss, overcome addiction, and work through anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns. Due to the unique privacy and scheduling needs of high-profile and celebrity clients, Darren offers in-home visits and travel accompaniment, in addition to standard in-office and online appointments.
Trauma and the Nervous System
Exposure to extreme threat, particularly early in life, combined with a lack of adequate caregiving responses significantly affect the long-term capacity of the human organism to modulate the response of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in response to subsequent stress. The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is primarily geared to mobilization by preparing the body for action by increasing cardiac output, stimulating sweat glands, and by inhibiting the gastrointestinal tract. Since the SNS has long been associated with emotion, a great deal of work on the role of the SNS has been collected to identify autonomic “signatures” of specific affective states. Overall, increased adrenergic activity is found in about two-thirds of traumatized children and adults. The parasympathetic branch of the ANS not only influences HR independently of the sympathetic branch, but makes a greater contribution to HR, including resting HR. Vagal fibers originating in the brainstem affect emotional and behavioral responses to stress by inhibiting sympathetic influence to the sinoatrial node and promoting rapid decreases in metabolic output that enable almost instantaneous shifts in behavioral state. The parasympathetic system consists of two branches: the ventral vagal complex (VVC) and the dorsal vagal complex (DVC) systems. The DVC is primarily associated with digestive, taste, and hypoxic responses in mammals. The DVC contributes to pathophysiological conditions including the formation of ulcers via excess gastric secretion and colitis. In contrast, the VVC has the primary control of supradiaphragmatic visceral organs including the larynx, pharynx, bronchi, esophagus, and heart. The VVC inhibits the mobilization of the SNS, enabling rapid engagement and disengagement in the environment.
Our unique holistic and comprehensive treatment programs support a wide range of emotional, physical, and psychological issues covering all kinds of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, panic disorder, eating disorders (binge eating/anorexia/bulimia), trauma & complex PTSD treatment (post-traumatic stress disorder), dual diagnosis treatment, burnout & mood treatment, ADHD Treatment, OCD Treatment, and other mental health & psychiatric treatment. Complex trauma is often an underline driver of challenging symptoms. Book a confidential consultation with Darren Maguire to experience a new unique understanding and approach to psychological health. Fee Structure Initial assessment 2 hours - 1000 Euro Ongoing consultations 90 mins - 500 Euro Ongoing consultations 60 mins - 350 Euro Recommendation based on evidence of best outcome is weekly 90 minute consultation over 12 months.
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