Abu Dhabi

Psychotherapy and counselling for Abu Dhabi, online

For people in Abu Dhabi, Dr Philippe Jacquet offers confidential psychotherapy, counselling and coaching online by secure video. He is a Jungian analyst with twenty-five years of clinical experience and an executive coach trained at ESSEC Business School, working in English and French. The online format suits a city of internationally mobile professionals and families, and keeps the work continuous regardless of travel.

What is available

The practice works across the full range of adult difficulty, all delivered online: counselling and psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, stress and life transitions; EMDR for trauma, with more than twenty years of practice; specialist eating-disorder treatment, including particular expertise with men; confidential addiction counselling, including high-functioning presentations; and executive coaching for senior leaders. It also draws on Jungian analysis for the questions of meaning and direction that are harder to name.

Why people in Abu Dhabi choose an outside practitioner

In a relatively small professional and social world, discretion matters. Working with a practitioner outside that world, online and in complete confidentiality, gives senior professionals and internationally mobile clients a space that is genuinely private, and a depth of training that is not always available locally. For executives, founders, public figures and internationally mobile families, this discretion is not incidental. It is the condition that makes the work possible: one to one, private, with no group setting and no institutional record.

Executive coaching for Abu Dhabi leaders

For founders, executives and senior professionals, the coaching here combines the rigour of an ESSEC business-school training with the creativity and depth of Jungian analysis. It works not only on performance and leadership behaviour, but on what drives them. You can read more on the executive coaching page.

Therapy that fits life in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi’s professional world, built around government, energy and sovereign-wealth institutions, is senior, international and relatively small, which is exactly why discretion matters so much. Many residents are reluctant to seek help locally, and good depth-oriented therapy in English or French is not always within reach. An experienced outside practitioner, met entirely online, offers both the expertise and the privacy that local options often cannot.

How online sessions work from Abu Dhabi

Sessions are by secure video, scheduled around the modest time difference (Abu Dhabi is three to four hours ahead of London). The format suits frequent travel and keeps the work uninterrupted, and meeting from your own private space, with someone outside your professional and social world, is often what makes candid work possible.

Dr Jacquet also works with families on helping a son master his energy — confidential therapy for young men, at Harley Street and online.

International health insurance, or private

Many internationally mobile clients are covered by global private health plans, designed for exactly this kind of specialist care. Dr Jacquet works with major insurers including Bupa, Cigna, AXA and Aviva, and his training is international: the Hazelden Foundation in the United States, a Master's and Doctorate in the United Kingdom, and executive coaching at ESSEC in Paris. If you prefer to pay privately, without insurance, that is equally welcome; the work is exactly the same.