EMDR & Trauma

EMDR therapy for the Channel 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 Jersey, Guernsey and the Channel Islands online by secure video, following the same protocol as in-person work.

Trauma beneath a composed surface

High-functioning finance and legal professionals often carry trauma that never gets addressed: earlier loss or abuse, the accumulated cost of years of pressure, events from before island life. This kind of complex, diffuse trauma needs a careful, staged approach, which is where twenty years of EMDR practice combined with 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. Read more about EMDR and trauma therapy.

Private and confidential

Sessions are held online, in complete confidence. Nothing leaves the consultation 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.