EMDR therapy for the Cayman Islands
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 the Cayman Islands online by secure video, following the same protocol as in-person work.
Trauma beneath a composed surface
The offshore professional community in George Town 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 Cayman. Island life can compound it. The distance from family, the transience of a community where colleagues and friends are always arriving and leaving, and the annual anxiety of hurricane season all take a toll that rarely shows at work. For those who have lived through a major storm, the memory itself can leave a lasting mark.
Careful, staged reprocessing
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. The work is done entirely online, privately, and 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 the Cayman Islands, 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 the Cayman Islands?
Yes. EMDR is delivered effectively online by secure video across Grand Cayman and the Cayman Islands, following the same protocol as in-person work.
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 Cayman often cover this kind of specialist care.