Eating Disorder Treatment for Singapore

The eating disorders I most often see in Singapore arrive disguised as achievement.

That is not a Singapore-specific phenomenon, but the environment sharpens it. In a city organised around performance, the behaviours that constitute a serious eating disorder are the behaviours the culture rewards: discipline, control, self-denial, optimisation, the refusal to be governed by appetite. Somebody training six mornings a week and eating with rigid precision does not look unwell. They look like they are winning.

This is why the disorder is so often years old before anyone treats it, and why the person themselves is often the last to name it.

The expatriate dimension

For the expatriate community there is a second layer. You are far from the people who knew you before, in a professional environment where visible difficulty carries a cost, and often on a package that makes staying well a practical necessity rather than only a personal one.

That combination produces a strong incentive to manage privately and indefinitely.

Why a clinician outside Singapore

Specialist eating disorder provision in Singapore exists but is limited, and the professional and expatriate communities are interconnected enough that discretion is not straightforward. Working with a clinician in London removes both problems. There is no local record, no waiting room and no possibility of professional overlap.

What you are getting

UKCP-registered psychotherapist and Jungian analyst, HCPC-registered art psychotherapist, professional doctorate from the University of Essex on male eating disorders, twenty-five years in the work. British registration is on a public register and can be checked without asking me.

I also treat the addiction that so often accompanies an eating disorder, which in high-performing populations frequently means alcohol. They are usually one problem in two costumes, and treating either alone tends not to hold.

Frequency is usually once to three times a week at the start. What that involves.

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.