Sex Addiction

Sexual addiction counselling in Brussels

Certain memories do not recede with time. They remain vivid, emotionally charged, and intrusive, arriving without invitation in the middle of ordinary life, carrying the same physiological weight as when the original event occurred. The knowledge that the event is in the past offers little relief, because the nervous system is not responding to the past. It is responding to now.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is one of the most robustly evidenced therapies for this kind of traumatic residue. Dr Jacquet is an EMDR practitioner with over 20 years of experience, qualified to the highest European standard, and offers EMDR therapy for English-speaking clients in Brussels via secure online sessions.

How EMDR works

EMDR uses bilateral stimulation, most commonly guided eye movements, to engage the brain’s natural information-processing capacity. Traumatic memories that have become stuck, retaining their distressing charge rather than being integrated as past events, are reprocessed during this bilateral engagement. The person does not need to describe their experience in detail. For many people, this is the aspect of EMDR that makes it more approachable than other forms of trauma work.

What EMDR treats in Brussels

EMDR is used here for post-traumatic stress disorder, single-incident trauma, complex and developmental trauma, and the traumatic foundations that frequently underlie presentations including depression, anxiety, addiction, and eating disorders. It is also used for the particular forms of cumulative stress that can develop in high-pressure institutional environments, experiences that may not qualify as single-incident trauma but which, over time, have produced a nervous system that remains on alert.

EMDR as part of broader therapeutic work

At this practice, EMDR is integrated within a wider therapeutic relationship rather than delivered as a standalone protocol. This provides the relational container that makes processing work both safer and more thorough. Sessions are online, confidential, and available without referral.

Discretion in a small world

Professional Brussels is a small world, and the fear of recognition keeps many people from seeking help locally. The practice offers a route around that: an internationally based practitioner, sessions in English or French, and the work conducted entirely by secure video. Nothing about the arrangement touches institutional or professional circles.

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.

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