Executive Coaching

Executive coaching London

The executive coaching offered at Harley Street is psychotherapy-informed. This distinction matters. Dr Jacquet trained in executive coaching at ESSEC Business School, ranked among Europe’s top ten business schools by the Financial Times. He has worked with senior executives, CEOs, barristers, politicians, and financiers across London and internationally.

What distinguishes coaching at this practice from conventional executive coaching is the depth of clinical background behind it. Performance problems in leadership are rarely purely technical. They are relational, psychological, and often rooted in patterns that go further back than the current role.

Who executive coaching is for

• Senior executives and CEOs navigating strategic decisions
• Leaders experiencing performance difficulties or burnout
• Professionals at transition points, new roles, promotions, pivots
• High performers who want to work on the interior dimensions of leadership
• Executives managing teams with relational or cultural complexity
• Professionals in high-pressure environments: finance, law, medicine, politics

The approach

Executive coaching sessions at Harley Street can take place at the practice address, at the client’s office, or online. Confidentiality is strict, what happens in coaching sessions is not shared with employers, boards, or third parties without the client’s consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the outset.

The programme is developed around the client’s specific goals. There is no fixed protocol. Some clients work on a specific challenge over a defined number of sessions. Others engage in longer-term coaching that evolves as the work deepens.

The coaching draws on psychological frameworks (attachment, identity, the Shadow in leadership, the role of early experience in professional patterns) without being therapy. The distinction is maintained clearly: coaching is forward-looking and goal-oriented; therapy addresses the clinical. Sometimes both are needed and can run in parallel.

Psychotherapy-informed leadership

The most effective leaders are not necessarily the most technically skilled. They are the ones who know themselves, who understand their relational patterns, their blind spots, their triggers, and the difference between the role they occupy and the person they are. Psychotherapy-informed coaching is built on this understanding.

A leader who has done interior work leads differently. Not better in every measurable sense immediately, but with more awareness, more consistency, and more capacity to hold complexity without reacting to it.

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.