Addiction counselling for the Channel Islands, private and confidential
Dr Philippe Jacquet offers private, specialist addiction counselling to people in Jersey, Guernsey and across the Channel Islands, online by secure video. He trained as an addiction specialist at the Hazelden Foundation and supervises clinical teams in private residential addiction treatment and in a private psychiatric hospital.
The island problem: nowhere to be anonymous
On a small island, discretion is almost impossible to protect. For finance, trust and legal professionals, seeing a local counsellor can mean meeting them again socially or across a deal. Going away to a residential clinic means an absence that will be noticed and questioned. Working online with a specialist in London solves both: intensive, consistent, private one-to-one work, with no local exposure and no record. It covers alcohol dependency including high-functioning presentations, cocaine and stimulants, prescription dependency, gambling, and sex and pornography addiction. Read more about addiction counselling.
Confidential, and off the island
Nothing is disclosed to any employer, firm, family member or third party without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the outset.
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 addiction counselling available online in Jersey and Guernsey?
Yes. Dr Jacquet works with clients across the Channel Islands online by secure video, with complete discretion and no record kept outside the consultation.
Do I need residential rehab?
Not necessarily. Many senior professionals do their recovery work through intensive, confidential one-to-one therapy rather than an absence that would be noticed.