Eating disorder therapy in Marbella
Specialist, English-speaking eating disorder treatment is hard to find on the Costa del Sol. Marbella’s large international and expatriate community is well served for general wellbeing, but provision with genuine clinical depth for serious eating disorders, in English, is scarce, particularly for adults and for men.
This practice offers specialist eating disorder therapy for Marbella, online by secure video, conducted in English and French, by a practitioner with doctoral-level expertise in this field.
The expertise
Dr Jacquet holds a Doctorate of Professional Practice with research focused specifically on eating disorders, and is the only person in Europe, as far as is known, to hold a doctorate in this area from an analytical psychology perspective. The approach is integrative and Jungian: not symptom management, but understanding what the eating behaviour is doing, what it protects against, and what it would take to address its underlying function.
He works with the full range: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, orthorexia, and the male eating disorder presentations that most services fail to identify.
Male eating disorders
Men with eating disorders are consistently under-recognised, often told that what they are experiencing does not qualify. Dr Jacquet’s doctoral research was specifically on eating disorders in men, and this practice treats them with the seriousness they require. You can read the full specialist page on male eating disorder treatment.
An eating disorder counsellor in Marbella and the Costa del Sol
The Costa del Sol has pressures of its own. A culture built around appearance, leisure and the body, long summers of restaurant and social life, and for many an expatriate distance from family and the structures of home, can all feed a disordered relationship with eating and control, and make it easier to hide. Finding an eating disorder counsellor in Marbella who works in English, with genuine clinical depth rather than general wellbeing support, is difficult.
This practice fills that gap: a specialist eating disorder counsellor for Marbella, Puerto Banus and the wider Costa del Sol, working with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and orthorexia, in adults and in men, online by secure video.
In person and online
Sessions take place by secure video, with continuity maintained for clients who move between the coast and elsewhere.
This work forms part of a wider eating disorder specialism based in London, and sits alongside the full range of therapy and coaching in Marbella.
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 eating disorder treatment available in English in Marbella?
Yes. Sessions are available in English and French, online by secure video. Dr Jacquet practises in London and travels to the coast only occasionally, by private arrangement, so weekly online work is the ordinary arrangement.
What eating disorders do you treat?
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and orthorexia, including the male presentations that are often missed elsewhere.
Do you treat men with eating disorders?
Yes, as a particular specialism. Dr Jacquet holds what is, to our knowledge, Europe's only doctoral research specifically on male eating disorders from an analytical psychology perspective.
Is this an alternative to a residential clinic?
Not in the sense of a cheaper substitute for a clinic, and this is not a residential service: there is no bed, no detox and no medical supervision. It is the senior specialist option for people who will not go residential at any price, and it is the work either side for those who do — the last conversation before that decision is taken, and the first one after leaving. Where medically supervised detoxification is genuinely needed, that is said plainly at assessment and the referral is made.