Addiction counselling for Bermuda, private and confidential
Dr Philippe Jacquet is a private addiction counsellor for Bermuda, offering specialist, confidential addiction counselling to people across the island online by secure video. He trained as an addiction specialist at the Hazelden Foundation in the United States, and supervises clinical teams in private residential addiction treatment and in a private psychiatric hospital. This is senior specialist work, delivered with the same depth as at his Harley Street practice.
Why a local centre is not an option for many
Bermuda has an unusually visible local addiction-and-recovery scene, and for a senior reinsurance or asset-management professional that visibility is the barrier to getting help. The Rock is 21 square miles. Being seen walking into a local centre, or recognised at a local meeting, is almost impossible to keep private, and the fear of that exposure keeps a great many people from seeking help at all. Some fly abroad discreetly; most simply carry on. Dr Jacquet exists precisely as the confidential alternative: senior specialist addiction work delivered online, with no waiting room, no local record and no one on the island who need ever know.
The drinking behind the performance
Bermuda’s professional life is intense and its social life runs on alcohol, from client entertaining to the tight, overlapping circles of expatriate Hamilton. The isolation of island life and the relentless renewal calendar add their own pressure, and the drinking that has quietly stopped being social is easy to normalise when everyone around you is doing the same and a career keeps flourishing. The work here is intensive, consistent, one-to-one, and it avoids the unavoidable absence of a residential clinic that a demanding role cannot accommodate. It covers alcohol dependency including high-functioning presentations, cocaine and stimulants, prescription dependency, gambling, and sex and pornography addiction. Read more about addiction counselling.
What working with a Bermuda addiction counsellor online involves
Online does not mean lighter. The work is intensive, consistent and one-to-one, and it begins with a confidential assessment of what is really going on beneath the drinking or using. From there Dr Jacquet builds a structured plan around your life, rather than asking you to disappear into a residential clinic your role cannot spare. Sessions are weekly, or more often at the start, held by secure video, with focused work to do in between. Because everything happens online there is no waiting room, no travel off the island and nothing on any local record, so the discretion a small community makes essential is built into the format from the first session.
For many people in Bermuda the hardest step is simply admitting the question is worth asking. A first conversation carries no obligation and no assumption: it is a chance to describe what is happening and hear, honestly, whether this kind of work would help. If it would, you can begin straight away; if something more intensive is needed, Dr Jacquet will say so and help you find it.
An alternative to flying off to rehab
On the island, getting help is often assumed to mean flying abroad to a residential clinic. Sometimes that is necessary: where there is a physical dependency that needs supervised medical detox, or a level of risk that needs round-the-clock care, residential treatment is essential, and Dr Jacquet will say so plainly. But for many it is the most drastic option, reached before a proportionate one has been tried, and it carries a hidden flaw. It is easy to be clean in a clinic, where the substance is absent and ordinary life is suspended. The real test is here, back on the Rock, at the same dinners and in the same tight circles that were there all along. Rehab, at its best, is where the problem is discovered; recovery, the longer work of staying well in the life you actually live, happens back home. Confidential, senior specialist support online builds that recovery here, where it has to hold, whether as an alternative to a residential stay or as aftercare when you return.
Insurance and confidentiality
Dr Jacquet works with major private health insurers, including the international plans common among Bermuda’s expatriate professionals. Nothing is disclosed to any employer, firm or third party without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits every registered practitioner is bound by, which are explained at the outset, and online sessions leave no local footprint.
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
Can I get addiction help in Bermuda without being seen locally?
Yes. This is the whole point of the online model. On an island of 21 square miles, being seen at a local centre is almost impossible to keep private. Dr Jacquet works entirely by secure video, with no local footprint.
Do you work with international health insurance?
Yes. Outside the UK these are global private health plans, such as Bupa Global, Cigna Global and AXA Global Healthcare, and 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. Cover varies by policy, so it is worth confirming your own outpatient mental health benefit before starting. The international private health plans common among Bermuda professionals often cover this kind of specialist care, so ask about your cover.
Is there a private addiction counsellor for Bermuda?
Yes. Dr Philippe Jacquet is a private addiction counsellor for Bermuda, working with clients across the island online by secure video. He is Hazelden-trained with more than 25 years of experience and supervises the clinical teams at two UK recovery clinics, so Bermuda clients receive senior specialist care with complete discretion.
What types of addiction do you treat?
Alcohol dependency, including high-functioning drinking, cocaine and stimulants, prescription dependency, gambling, and sex and pornography addiction. If you are unsure whether what you are dealing with counts as addiction, a first confidential conversation will help you get clear.
How do online addiction sessions work?
Sessions are one-to-one by secure video, weekly or more often at the start, at times that fit a demanding schedule, with focused work between sessions. There is no waiting room, no travel off the island and no local record.