Addiction counselling for Tokyo, private and confidential
Dr Philippe Jacquet is a private addiction counsellor for Tokyo, offering specialist, English-speaking addiction counselling online by secure video. He trained as an addiction specialist at the Hazelden Foundation in the United States, and supervises clinical teams in private residential addiction treatment and in a private psychiatric hospital. This is senior specialist work, delivered with the same depth as at his Harley Street practice.
The drinking behind the performance
Tokyo’s professional life runs on alcohol to an unusual degree: client entertaining, the after-work nomikai, the izakaya rounds that are difficult to decline without seeming to opt out of the team. Add the isolation of expatriate life, the distance from family and the relentless pressure to perform, and the drinking that has quietly stopped being social is easy to normalise when everyone around you is doing the same and a career keeps flourishing. High-functioning alcohol dependency thrives in exactly this environment. The work here covers alcohol dependency including high-functioning presentations, cocaine and stimulants, prescription dependency, gambling, and sex and pornography addiction. Read more about addiction counselling.
What working with an English-speaking addiction counsellor online involves
Online does not mean lighter. The work is intensive, consistent and one-to-one, and it begins with a confidential assessment of what is really going on beneath the drinking or using. From there Dr Jacquet builds a structured plan around your life and the time difference, rather than asking you to step away into a residential clinic a demanding role cannot spare. Because everything happens online there is no waiting room, no travel and no local record, so treatment stays entirely private, in your own language.
Insurance and confidentiality
Dr Jacquet works with major private health insurers, including the international plans common among Tokyo’s expatriate professionals. Nothing is disclosed to any employer, firm 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, and online sessions leave no local footprint.
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 English-speaking addiction help available in Tokyo?
Yes. Dr Philippe Jacquet is a private addiction counsellor working with clients in Tokyo online by secure video, in English, with complete discretion and no local footprint. Sessions are scheduled around the time difference.
Do you work with international health insurance?
Yes. Outside the UK these are global private health plans, such as Bupa Global, Cigna Global and AXA Global Healthcare, and they work by reimbursement rather than direct billing: you pay for the session and Dr Jacquet provides a fully itemised invoice, carrying the registration details insurers ask for, which you submit to your plan. Cover varies by policy, so it is worth confirming your own outpatient mental health benefit before starting. The international private health plans common among Tokyo expatriates often cover this kind of specialist care, so ask about your cover.
What types of addiction do you treat?
Alcohol dependency, including high-functioning drinking, cocaine and stimulants, prescription dependency, gambling, and sex and pornography addiction. If you are unsure whether what you are dealing with counts as addiction, a first confidential conversation will help.