English-speaking psychotherapy for Bermuda
Bermuda is the reinsurance capital of the world. Hamilton concentrates an extraordinary density of high-earning professionals: reinsurance and insurance-linked-securities specialists, asset managers, actuaries, underwriters and the lawyers and accountants who serve them, many of them expatriates who have relocated for the work. It is a demanding, high-pressure environment, and specialist English-speaking psychotherapy with real clinical depth is scarce on-island. Dr Philippe Jacquet offers it online across Bermuda, with the same clinical depth as at his Harley Street practice.
A private, highly specialised practice
This is a private, highly specialised practice, not general counselling. The expertise is senior specialist: a Doctorate of Professional Practice, Hazelden training and more than 20 years of EMDR, for complex presentations such as addiction, eating disorders, trauma and executive burnout. Usually no waiting list, free choice of therapist, and strict confidentiality.
A discreet, online alternative to a local centre
Bermuda has an unusually visible local addiction-and-recovery scene, and that visibility is precisely the problem for a senior finance professional. On an island of 21 square miles, being seen walking into a local centre, or recognised at a local meeting, is almost impossible to keep private, and the reputational risk can feel worse than the problem itself. Dr Jacquet is the confidential, online, specialist alternative: senior specialist care delivered by secure video, with no local footprint, no waiting room to be seen in, and no one on the island who need ever know. For those who must not be visible locally, this is the discreet route to genuine specialist help.
Global health cover deserves a globally trained clinician
An international private health insurance plan, the kind of global cover offered by insurers such as Bupa Global, Cigna and AXA, is among the best cover in the world, and it exists to give you access to genuinely specialist care, not a generalist. That care should be trained to the same standard. Dr Jacquet’s education spans three countries: addiction training at the Hazelden Foundation in the United States, a Master’s and a Doctorate of Professional Practice in the United Kingdom, and executive coaching at ESSEC in Paris, one of Europe’s leading business schools. Add more than 20 years of EMDR, and this is exactly the highly specialised care your cover is meant for. If you hold the best cover, use it for support that matches it.
Dr Jacquet works with major private health insurers, including Bupa, Cigna, AXA and Aviva. Ask about your cover when you get in touch, and check whether your policy is an international plan.
The pressures of the Rock
Bermuda’s strengths are also its stressors. The reinsurance calendar is relentless, driven by renewal seasons and the constant modelling of catastrophe. The Rock is just 21 square miles, and the isolation is real: the “island fever” of a place you cannot easily leave, the distance from family, and a cost of living among the highest anywhere. Professional and social circles overlap almost completely, so privacy feels thin and admitting that something is wrong feels dangerous.
These are the presentations this practice treats, discreetly and online: the drinking that has stopped being social, the control of food and the body when everything else feels beyond control, the anxiety masked by performance, and the burnout underneath the success. Nothing is shared with an employer, firm or third party without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the outset.
All international work is delivered by secure video. Online therapy worldwide.
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.
Common questions
Do you see clients across Bermuda?
Yes. Dr Philippe Jacquet works with clients across Bermuda online by secure video, with the same clinical depth as at his Harley Street practice, and complete discretion for those who cannot be seen at a local centre.
Do you work with international private health insurance?
Yes. Many professionals in Bermuda are covered by global private health plans. They work by reimbursement rather than direct billing: you pay for the session and Dr Jacquet provides a fully itemised invoice, carrying the registration details insurers ask for, which you submit to your plan. Plans such as Bupa Global, Cigna Global and AXA Global Healthcare generally include outpatient mental health cover for secure video consultations, though cover varies by policy and is worth confirming before starting. Ask about your cover when you get in touch, and check whether your policy is an international plan.
What do you treat?
Addiction, eating disorders, trauma, anxiety and depression, and executive burnout, particularly among the reinsurance, asset-management and professional community.
Is it confidential, and can I avoid being seen locally?
Yes. On an island of 21 square miles, being seen at a local recovery centre is almost impossible to keep private. Online sessions leave no local footprint, and nothing is disclosed to an employer, firm or third party without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the outset.