Addiction Counselling in Colchester

The thing that most people find hardest about addiction — and hardest to say out loud — is not the behaviour itself but the gap between knowing and doing. You know the consequences. You know what it is costing. And yet the pull to return to the behaviour is more powerful than the knowledge, and the gap between intention and action has become its own kind of prison.

That gap is not a character failure. It is a psychological phenomenon — one with a history, a function and a logic that can be understood. And understanding it is what makes sustained change possible.

The Approach to Addiction Counselling

Dr Jacquet has specialised in addiction for over 25 years. The approach at the Colchester practice is depth-oriented and individual — drawing on integrative psychotherapy, psychodynamic and Jungian frameworks. It treats addiction not as the primary problem but as a response to one: a highly developed solution to something that has never been adequately addressed. The therapeutic task is to find out what that something is.

Where trauma underlies the addiction — as it frequently does, even when it is not immediately obvious — EMDR may be incorporated into the work. Philippe is an EMDR practitioner with over 20 years of experience.

What Is Treated

The Colchester practice works with alcohol and drug addiction, gambling, cocaine and stimulant dependency, sex and pornography addiction, compulsive overeating, and other behavioural dependencies. Where addiction co-occurs with depression, anxiety, eating disorders or trauma, those presentations are addressed together as part of the same therapeutic process rather than treated in sequence.

Starting

No referral is needed. An initial consultation in Colchester is the appropriate first step — a private, confidential conversation at your pace, with no obligation to continue beyond it.