Personally delivered by Damon Bachegalup for families in the UK and internationally.
26+ years of progressively developing experience working directly with young people, families, behaviour, relationships and intervention leading to the highly specialised private family work Damon provides today.
Damon Bachegalup is a Family & Male Adolescent Behavioural Consultant who works privately with families when difficulties involving a young man aged 15–25 have become complex, entrenched or difficult to resolve.
He provides personally delivered behavioural consultation and private family interventions across the UK and internationally.
Private Behavioural Interventions for Families with Young Men Aged 15–25
Helping Your Son Move Forward With Confidence.
Is This Approach Right for Your Family?
Damon's work is most effective with families who are:
Open to direct, honest and objective guidance
Willing to consider the wider family dynamic
Prepared to make practical changes, not simply discuss them
Committed to a structured approach
Looking for meaningful, longer-term change
Not Designed for Low-Intensity Support
These interventions are designed for families seeking substantial, personalised involvement and a structured approach to change. They are unlikely to be suitable for those looking for low-cost, minimal or passive support.
Why Families Want to Work With Damon
When a family is dealing with a young man whose behaviour, relationships or direction have become increasingly difficult, choosing the right person to become involved is an important decision.
Damon Bachegalup has spent more than 26 years working directly with young people, families and adults across a range of behavioural, relational and emotional difficulties.
His professional experience has developed across several areas of practice, including youth work, family support, counselling, psychotherapy, mediation and behavioural intervention.
Over the years, Damon has worked with young people and families experiencing difficulties including problems with school attendance, behaviour at home, family conflict, communication, boundaries, parental authority and relationships.
He has worked as a youth worker, lone-parent adviser, counsellor, family mediator and director of a counselling service within the mental health sector. He subsequently developed TeenCamps-UK in 2008, working directly with young people, predominantly young males, through structured outdoor programmes incorporating therapeutic work, mentoring, behavioural support and family involvement.
This breadth of experience has shaped the way Damon works today.
His approach is not based on looking at the young man in isolation. He considers the young person's behaviour alongside the family relationships, expectations, communication, boundaries and patterns that surround it.
More Than Qualifications
For Damon, professional experience is not simply a list of qualifications.
It is the accumulated understanding of working with young people in real situations, often when conventional approaches have not produced the change a family hoped for.
That experience has included working directly with young people, supporting parents, mediating family relationships, providing therapeutic intervention, mentoring adolescents and developing structured behavioural programmes.
It has also taught Damon that meaningful change rarely comes from focusing on one person alone.
The young man's behaviour matters. So does the family environment around him.
What Families Can Expect
Families who fully engage with the process can expect direct, honest and objective professional guidance.
The aim is to help families develop greater clarity around what is happening, understand the behavioural and relational patterns involved, establish appropriate boundaries and expectations and create a more stable and constructive way forward.
The work may involve challenging established patterns and asking family members to consider their own contribution to the situation.
Damon does not promise a predetermined outcome. Every family is different, and no responsible professional can guarantee how an individual young person will respond.
What he does provide is experienced, structured and personally delivered intervention, tailored to the circumstances of the family.
Personally Delivered. Deliberately Limited.
Damon works directly with every family he accepts.
There is no junior consultant to whom the work is delegated and no large team between the family and the person providing the intervention.
Every enquiry is personally reviewed before a consultation is offered, and further intervention is considered only where Damon believes his involvement may be appropriate.
For families, PAs and family offices seeking discreet specialist support for a young man aged 15–25, the starting point is a private conversation about the circumstances and whether there is a genuine fit.
From Conflict and Uncertainty to Stability and Progress
Private Interventions
Private behavioural intervention for families experiencing persistent conflict, loss of parental authority, defiance, school refusal, withdrawal or other entrenched behavioural difficulties involving a young man aged 15–25.
“Our son is moving forward with his life, taking responsibility for himself, and we can have a relationship with him again without constant conflict, fear or uncertainty.” UK Family.
Private Online Family Intervention
Private 1:1 Residential Intervention — UK & Spain
In-Person Family Intervention
60-Minute Intensive Family Consultation
A Future Defined by Progress, Not Past Difficulties
Not Every Family Requires a Long-Term Intervention
Some families may not require an intensive intervention. In appropriate circumstances, Damon offers a limited number of private, one-off consultations for parents seeking professional insight, practical guidance and clarity around their son's behaviour and the wider family dynamic.
These sessions are designed to help parents understand the situation and identify potential next steps.
View 60-Minute Intensive Family Consultation>.
One session. No ongoing commitment. No requirement to proceed with a further intervention.
Restoring Direction to a Young Man. Restoring Confidence to His Family.
Family & Male Adolescent Behavioural Consultant for PAs & Family Offices
PAs, executive assistants, family-office professionals and other trusted advisers are sometimes the first people asked to identify discreet specialist support for a family member.
Damon works directly with a limited number of families and can liaise with the appropriate family representative during the initial enquiry process.
All enquiries are treated confidentially and each situation is personally reviewed before a consultation is offered.
