EMDR Therapy

EMDR therapy for Abu Dhabi, online

EMDR is the most strongly evidence-based treatment for psychological trauma, recommended by the World Health Organization, the UK’s NICE and every serious health authority as a first-line treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr Philippe Jacquet has practised EMDR for more than twenty years. For people in Abu Dhabi, sessions take place online by encrypted video, in strict confidentiality, in English or French.

What EMDR does

During an event experienced as an intense threat, emotional overload can stop the brain from processing the experience normally. The memory stays unintegrated, charged with emotion, bodily sensation and negative beliefs about oneself, and can reactivate at any moment, triggered by cues that seem trivial. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess and integrate the memory. Afterwards the memory remains, but it loses its overwhelming charge, and the body no longer reacts as if the event were happening again.

Trauma in an internationally mobile life

For expatriates and globally mobile professionals, trauma is often under-recognised: an accident, a crisis at work, violence or pressure, or the cumulative strain of repeated relocation and loss with no time to process it. EMDR can reach this where advice and coaching cannot. You can read more on the EMDR therapy page.

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Dr Philippe Jacquet is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a Jungian analyst and an HCPC registered art psychotherapist, with twenty-five years of clinical practice. His Doctorate of Professional Practice at the University of Essex examined male eating disorders from the perspective of analytical psychology. Registration can be checked on either public register.

How the work is delivered from here

All international sessions are by secure video, in English or French. Online therapy is not a reduced version of consulting room work: it is the format that lets weekly work survive living abroad, travelling, or relocating. Sessions run in United Kingdom hours, which suits most regions, and if your time zone makes none of it workable, say so when you enquire rather than assuming it rules you out.

For clinicians and treatment services

Dr Jacquet supervises clinical teams in private residential addiction treatment and in a private psychiatric hospital. For treatment centres, psychiatric units and group practices looking for external clinical supervision, including in places where no supervisor of this seniority is available locally, team supervision is also delivered by video. For individual practitioners, see clinical supervision.