Psychotherapy for the Channel Islands, online
Jersey and Guernsey are built on private wealth: trust and fund administration, private banking, law and offshore finance. It is a discreet, high-earning world lived on small islands, where everyone is known and privacy is hard to protect. Dr Philippe Jacquet offers specialist English-speaking psychotherapy to the Channel Islands online, with the same clinical depth as at his Harley Street practice.
A private, highly specialised practice
This is a private, highly specialised practice, not general counselling. The expertise is senior specialist: a Doctorate of Professional Practice, Hazelden training and more than 20 years of EMDR, for complex presentations such as addiction, eating disorders, trauma and executive burnout. Usually no waiting list, free choice of therapist, and strict confidentiality.
Why the islands are different
Island life concentrates the pressures of finance and adds one of its own: there is nowhere to be anonymous. Seeing a local therapist can feel impossible when you might meet them at the school gate or across a boardroom the following week. Working online, confidentially, with a specialist in London removes that problem entirely, which is exactly why many islanders prefer it.
The hidden cost of success
High earning and hard driving carry their own risks: the drinking that follows the deal, the compulsive control of food and the gym, the anxiety masked by performance. These are the presentations this practice treats, discreetly and without judgement. Nothing is shared with an employer, firm or third party without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the outset.
All international work is delivered by secure video. Online therapy by secure video.
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.
International health insurance, or private
Many internationally mobile clients are covered by global private health plans, designed for exactly this kind of specialist care (see how to use your insurance for psychotherapy). Dr Jacquet works with major insurers including Bupa, Cigna, AXA and Aviva, and his training is international: the Hazelden Foundation in the United States, a Master's and Doctorate in the United Kingdom, and executive coaching at ESSEC in Paris. If you prefer to pay privately, without insurance, that is equally welcome; the work is exactly the same.
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
Do you see clients in Jersey and Guernsey?
Yes. Dr Philippe Jacquet works with clients across the Channel Islands online by secure video, with the same clinical depth as at his Harley Street practice.
Why work online rather than with a local therapist?
On small islands, anonymity is almost impossible. Working online with a specialist in London removes the risk of meeting your therapist socially or professionally, which is why many islanders prefer it.
What do you treat?
Addiction, eating disorders, trauma, anxiety and depression, and executive burnout, particularly among finance, trust and legal professionals.
Is it confidential?
Strictly. Nothing is disclosed to an employer, firm or third party without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the outset.