Addiction counselling in Paris
Specialist, English-speaking addiction treatment is hard to access in Paris. For the city’s large international and expatriate community, private help with genuine clinical depth, and in English, is in short supply.
This practice offers specialist addiction treatment for Paris, online by secure video, in English and French, with a Hazelden-trained specialist of 25 years’ experience.
The approach
Treatment is not primarily about stopping a behaviour, but about understanding what it has been doing, what it manages, protects against, or makes bearable. Addiction is rarely a failure of willpower; it is usually a solution to something, and effective treatment starts there. The work draws on Dr Jacquet’s training at the Hazelden Foundation and his supervision of clinical teams in private residential addiction treatment and in a private psychiatric hospital.
The full range is treated: alcohol and cocaine addiction, gambling, and sex and pornography addiction.
In person and online
Sessions take place by secure video, in strict confidence, with continuity maintained through travel and relocation. There is usually no waiting list, and no referral is needed.
This forms part of the practice’s wider addiction counselling in London, alongside the practice’s English-speaking psychotherapy in Paris.
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
Are sessions available in English in Paris?
Yes, in English and French, online by secure video.
Which addictions do you treat?
Alcohol, cocaine and other drugs, gambling, and sex and pornography addiction, and the underlying patterns they share.
Is this an alternative to residential rehab?
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.
Is it confidential?
Strictly confidential. Sessions are private and one-to-one, by secure video.