Addiction counselling for the Cayman Islands, private and confidential
Dr Philippe Jacquet is a private addiction counsellor for the Cayman Islands, offering specialist, confidential addiction counselling to people across Grand Cayman online by secure video. He trained as an addiction specialist at the Hazelden Foundation in the United States, and supervises the clinical teams at PROMIS Recovery Centre and at Cardinal Clinic, a private psychiatric hospital rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission. This is consultant-level work, delivered with the same depth as at his Harley Street practice, and with none of the exposure that on-island help can carry.
The drinking that follows the deal
Cayman’s professional life runs on a heavy networking calendar. The George Town funds, captive-insurance and offshore-law community closes its year with punishing deadlines, and the socialising that surrounds the work is built around alcohol: client dinners, Seven Mile Beach sundowners, the drinks that mark the close of a fund’s year. In that culture, the drinking that has quietly stopped being social is easy to normalise and hard to name, because a career keeps flourishing while it takes hold. High-functioning alcohol dependency is precisely the presentation that thrives in an environment where everyone is drinking and everyone is performing.
Discreet help on a small island
Grand Cayman is small, and professional and social circles overlap almost completely. The people you would meet at a local service are the people you meet at work, at the club and at the school gate, which makes admitting a problem locally feel like an unacceptable risk to a reputation. Working online with a London specialist removes that risk entirely. There is no waiting room to be seen in and no local record; the work is intensive, consistent, one-to-one, and it avoids the unavoidable absence of a residential clinic that a demanding role cannot easily 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 Cayman 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 step away 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 and no local record, so the discretion that overlapping island circles make essential is built into the format from the first session.
For many people in Cayman the hardest step is admitting the question is worth asking. A first conversation carries no obligation: 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.
A confidential alternative to residential rehab
On a small island, the assumption is often that getting help means flying off to a clinic abroad. For some that is the right and necessary step, and where a supervised detox or round-the-clock care is needed, residential treatment is essential. But it is frequently the most drastic move, taken before the proportionate one, and it overlooks something simple: staying clean in a clinic, with the substance gone and life on hold, is the easy part. The hard part is Grand Cayman itself, the same networking calendar and the same overlapping circles, which is exactly where recovery has to survive. Rehab is discovery; recovery is the longer work of staying well once real life resumes. Working confidentially online does that work in situ, here, whether as an alternative to residential rehab or as continuity after it.
Insurance and confidentiality
Dr Jacquet works with major private health insurers, including the international plans common among Cayman’s expatriate professionals. Nothing is disclosed to any employer, firm or third party without your explicit consent, and online sessions leave no local footprint.
Common questions
Is addiction counselling available online across the Cayman Islands?
Yes. Dr Jacquet works with clients across Grand Cayman and the Cayman Islands online by secure video, with complete discretion and no local footprint outside the consultation.
Do you work with international health insurance?
Yes. Dr Jacquet works with major insurers including Bupa, Cigna, AXA and Aviva. The international private health plans common among Cayman professionals often cover this kind of specialist care, so ask about your cover.
Is there a private addiction counsellor for the Cayman Islands?
Yes. Dr Philippe Jacquet is a private addiction counsellor for the Cayman Islands, working with clients across Grand Cayman 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 Cayman clients receive consultant-level 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 and no local record.