EMDR and Trauma Therapy for Cyprus

Limassol is a corporate city before it is a holiday one.

Shipping, corporate services, fintech and forex have put a substantial population of senior international people on the island: executives, founders, lawyers and their families, running businesses that happen to be domiciled in Cyprus. Many of them arrived from somewhere else, often in a hurry, and a good number carry something they have never had anywhere sensible to take.

Alongside them is the wider expatriate community, where people have frequently moved a long way from whatever happened and from everyone who knew about it.

The difficulty in both cases is the same. The island is small, the international business community smaller, and specialist provision in English is limited. Seeking help locally means being seen to seek it, in a community where your counterparty at next month’s closing may be in the same waiting room.

Distance is not the same as processing

Moving to a place with better weather and fewer reminders can genuinely help for a while. What it cannot do is process a traumatic memory, and people are often surprised to find that something they had successfully not thought about for a decade returns once life becomes quiet enough.

Trauma tends to wait for safety rather than for readiness.

What EMDR does

It works on traumatic memory directly. For a discrete event, properly processed, it can be remarkably effective and sometimes fast. The memory remains available but loses its capacity to overwhelm.

Where the trauma was prolonged, or began in childhood, the work is slower and broader, because there is no single memory to target. On that distinction.

Practical

Cyprus is two hours ahead of London, which suits the working day at both ends. No referral required, nothing held on the island, and nothing disclosed to anyone without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits every registered practitioner is bound by, which are explained at the outset.

UKCP-registered psychotherapist and Jungian analyst, HCPC-registered art psychotherapist, twenty-five years of practice and over twenty using EMDR. Both registers are public and can be checked independently.

EMDR therapy in London and trauma therapy.

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.