Addiction

Addiction counselling for Lebanon, online and confidential

For people in Beirut and across Lebanon, Dr Philippe Jacquet offers confidential, specialist addiction counselling online by secure video, in English and French. He is a Hazelden-trained addiction specialist and Jungian analyst with twenty-five years of clinical experience at Harley Street in London, and supervises clinical teams in private residential addiction treatment and in a private psychiatric hospital.

Addiction under prolonged stress

Years of instability, financial collapse and uncertainty take a toll, and for many people alcohol or drugs become the way they get through. What begins as relief becomes the thing that cannot be stopped. Addiction is rarely only about the substance; it is usually managing something underneath, anxiety, trauma, grief, the strain of holding a life together in difficult conditions. The work addresses that underlying layer, not only the behaviour.

What is treated

Alcohol dependency, including high-functioning presentations; cocaine and stimulants; prescription medication; gambling and behavioural addiction; and sex and pornography addiction. Recovery is treated as a long-term process that works with the psychological drivers and the trauma the addiction was often managing, drawing where helpful on EMDR. Sessions are private, on your schedule and in your time zone. Nothing is disclosed to any employer, family member or third party without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits every registered practitioner is bound by, which are explained at the outset.

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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.