English-speaking psychotherapy for Zurich
Zurich is one of the world’s leading financial centres, and its banking, insurance and asset-management firms draw a large, demanding international community: senior professionals, many of them expatriates, working long hours far from family inside a culture that prizes composure and discretion. Specialist mental-health care in English, with real clinical depth, is not easy to find, and the language barrier makes local German-speaking services difficult to navigate for many who need them. Dr Philippe Jacquet offers that care online across Zurich and Switzerland, in English, with the same clinical depth as at his Harley Street practice.
A private, highly specialised practice
This is a private, highly specialised practice, not general counselling. The expertise is senior specialist: a Doctorate of Professional Practice, Hazelden training and more than 20 years of EMDR, for complex presentations such as addiction, eating disorders, trauma and, for leaders, depth executive coaching. Usually no waiting list, free choice of therapist, and strict confidentiality.
Global health cover deserves a globally trained clinician
An international private health insurance plan, the kind of global cover offered by insurers such as Bupa Global, Cigna and AXA, is among the best in the world, and it exists to give you access to genuinely specialist care, not a generalist. That care should be trained to the same standard. Dr Jacquet’s education spans three countries: addiction training at the Hazelden Foundation in the United States, a Master’s and a Doctorate of Professional Practice in the United Kingdom, and executive coaching at ESSEC in Paris, one of Europe’s leading business schools. Add more than 20 years of EMDR, and this is exactly the highly specialised care your cover is meant for.
Dr Jacquet works with major private health insurers, including Bupa, Cigna, AXA and Aviva. Ask about your cover when you get in touch, and check whether your policy is an international plan.
The pressures of a high-performing financial city
Zurich rewards precision and composure, and it can make strain hard to admit. The hours in banking, insurance and asset management are long, the standards are exacting, and a culture built on discretion can leave little room to say that something is wrong. Underneath sits the quieter weight of expatriate life: distance from family, the isolation of living inside a language that is not your own, and the pressure to keep performing far from home. In that environment the drinking that has stopped being social, the control of food and the body when everything else feels beyond control, the anxiety masked by performance, and the burnout underneath the success can all take hold while a career keeps flourishing.
These are the presentations this practice treats, discreetly and online, in English: with the depth of a Harley Street consulting room, and with nothing shared with an employer, firm or third party without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the outset.
All international work is delivered by secure video. Online therapy by secure video.
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
Do you offer English-speaking therapy in Zurich?
Yes. Dr Philippe Jacquet is a UK-based, English-speaking psychotherapist working with clients in Zurich online by secure video, with the same clinical depth as at his Harley Street practice.
Do you work with international private health insurance?
Yes. Many professionals in Zurich hold global private health plans. 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. Plans such as Bupa Global, Cigna Global and AXA Global Healthcare generally include outpatient mental health cover for secure video consultations, though cover varies by policy and is worth confirming before starting. Ask about your cover when you get in touch, and check whether your policy is an international plan.
What do you treat?
Addiction, eating disorders, trauma, anxiety and depression, and executive burnout, particularly among Zurich's banking, insurance, asset-management and international community.
Is it confidential?
Strictly. 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.