Addiction counselling for Saudi Arabia, online and confidential
For people living and working in Riyadh, Jeddah and across Saudi Arabia, Dr Philippe Jacquet offers confidential, specialist addiction counselling online by secure video, in English and French. He trained as an addiction specialist at the Hazelden Foundation, the international benchmark in addiction treatment, and has twenty-five years of clinical experience, including supervising clinical teams in private residential addiction treatment and in a private psychiatric hospital.
Discreet help without a residential stay
For senior executives, founders, private-wealth families and the wider international community in Saudi Arabia, the difficulty is rarely access to resources. It is finding genuinely specialist, English-speaking help that can be undertaken in complete confidence, without exposure and without a record that goes anywhere it should not. For many people, seeking help where they live does not feel possible, and going to a residential clinic means absence and disclosure. The alternative offered here is intensive, consistent one-to-one work, conducted privately from your own home, on your schedule and in your time zone.
What is treated
The work covers the full range of addictions: alcohol dependency, including high-functioning presentations where professional life appears intact but the relationship with alcohol has crossed a line; cocaine and stimulant use; prescription medication dependency; gambling and behavioural addictions; and sex and pornography addiction. Recovery is treated as a long-term process that addresses the underlying psychological drivers, and the trauma the addiction was often managing in the first place. Read more about the practice’s addiction counselling and its specialist areas.
Confidential, and outside the local world
In a visible community where privacy is acute, discretion matters. Working online with a senior practitioner outside the region gives clients a genuinely private space and a depth of clinical training not always available locally. The work also draws, where helpful, on EMDR for the trauma that often sits beneath addiction. 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.
Common questions
Is addiction counselling available online in Saudi Arabia?
Yes. Dr Jacquet works with clients in Riyadh, Jeddah and across Saudi Arabia online by secure video, in English and French, with the same clinical depth as in-person work and complete discretion.
Is it confidential?
Strictly. 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. For senior professionals and people in the public eye, that discretion is central to the work.
Do I need to go to residential rehab?
Not necessarily. Many people who cannot step away from their responsibilities for weeks do their recovery work through intensive, confidential one-to-one therapy that addresses the underlying causes, not only the behaviour.