Life Coaching

Life coaching in Marbella

Life coaching and psychotherapy occupy different territories, and the difference is not merely semantic. Coaching is oriented forward, towards goals, changes in direction, the removal of practical and psychological obstacles to what a person wants to move towards. Psychotherapy is oriented both forward and backward, asking not just where you want to go but what is keeping the present arrangement in place and what it would cost to change it.

Dr Jacquet works at the intersection of both. The coaching work he offers in Marbella is grounded in 25 years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist, which means it is not simply goal-setting and accountability, but work that takes seriously the internal dimensions of change, the parts of the self that resist what the conscious mind has decided to want, and the ways in which past experience shapes present possibility.

Who this is for

The coaching practice in Marbella is suited to professionals and individuals who have a clear sense that something needs to change (in their work, their relationships, their direction) but who have found that clarity about the destination does not, by itself, produce movement. The people who come to this kind of work are not lacking in intelligence or effort. They are dealing with the subtler internal resistances that ordinary willpower cannot resolve.

Credentials

Dr Jacquet trained as an executive coach at ESSEC Business School (a Financial Times top-ten European business school) and has worked with senior professionals including CEOs, barristers, financiers and political figures. He is also a Jungian analyst and integrative psychotherapist, EMDR-trained for over 20 years, and the only person in Europe, as far as is known, to have conducted doctoral research on male eating disorders from an analytical psychology perspective.

Sessions

Coaching sessions for Marbella are delivered online by secure video. Contact the practice directly to discuss what you are looking for and arrange an initial conversation.

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.