English-Speaking therapist in Brussels
The Brussels practice offers specialist English-speaking psychotherapy for those living and working in Belgium. Expats, EU institution staff, international professionals, diplomats, people who have found that French or Dutch language therapy does not reach the same depth as working in their first language, or who simply need someone who understands both the clinical and the cultural dimensions of their situation.
The work available in Brussels is the same as at the London practices: integrative and Jungian psychotherapy, EMDR, eating disorder treatment, addiction counselling, and coaching for those in professional and leadership roles.
Two areas of particular focus in Brussels are specialist eating disorder treatment in Brussels, including male eating disorders, and confidential addiction counselling, both offered privately and in English.
Specialist services in Brussels
- Addiction counselling in Brussels — confidential work with alcohol and other addictions, in English, for a professional culture where drinking is part of the job.
- Eating disorder treatment in Brussels — doctoral-level specialism, including male eating disorders.
- EMDR and trauma therapy in Brussels — evidence-based trauma treatment, more than twenty years of EMDR practice.
The expat dimension
Living and working internationally creates its own psychological pressures, the loss of habitual support networks, the difficulty of maintaining identity across cultures, the particular stress of EU institutions and international organisations. These are not trivial concerns. They are genuine clinical material, and they are addressed here with the same seriousness as any other presentation.
Who comes to Brussels
The Brussels practice serves British, American, Australian and other English-speaking expats, as well as non-native English speakers who work in English and find that therapy in their first language does not serve them as well as they had hoped. It also serves people who have worked with therapists in London and need continuity when they relocate to Brussels.
Looking for a psychotherapist for Brussels? Dr Philippe Jacquet is a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist and Jungian analyst with 25 years of clinical experience at Harley Street and Central London.
All international work is delivered by secure video. How online therapy works here.
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.
Dr Jacquet very occasionally travels for a block of face-to-face sessions, by private arrangement and at the client’s cost. That is the exception; the ordinary arrangement, and the one that sustains weekly work, is secure video.
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.
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