EMDR therapy for Bermuda
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is the most strongly evidence-based treatment for psychological trauma, recommended by the WHO and by NICE as a first-line treatment for post-traumatic stress. Dr Philippe Jacquet has practised EMDR for more than twenty years, and offers it to people across Bermuda online by secure video, following the same protocol as in-person work.
Trauma beneath a composed surface
Hamilton’s reinsurance and asset-management community is built to look composed, and the people in it are practised at carrying on. Beneath that surface, many carry trauma that never gets addressed: earlier loss or abuse, the accumulated cost of years of pressure, or events from before life in Bermuda. Island life can compound it. The extreme isolation of a rock you cannot easily leave, the distance from family, the very high cost of living, and the constant professional focus on modelling catastrophe all take a toll that rarely shows at work.
Careful, staged reprocessing, in complete privacy
This kind of complex, diffuse trauma needs a careful, staged approach, which is where twenty years of EMDR practice combined with Jungian analytic depth becomes clinically decisive. A significant proportion of people with an addiction also carry unresolved trauma beneath it, and Dr Jacquet’s dual training lets him work on both rather than treating one and missing the other. On a small island where being seen seeking help is almost impossible to keep private, the online model matters: the work is done entirely by secure video, with no local footprint, at a pace the individual sets. Read more about EMDR and trauma therapy.
Insurance and confidentiality
Dr Jacquet works with major private health insurers, including international plans. Sessions are private and fully confidential.
Dr Jacquet also offers private addiction counselling for Bermuda, online and fully confidential.
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
Is EMDR available online in Bermuda?
Yes. EMDR is delivered effectively online by secure video across Bermuda, following the same protocol as in-person work, and with complete discretion.
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 in Bermuda often cover this kind of specialist care.