Confidential Addiction Counselling in Bermondsey

One of the things that makes addiction difficult to address is also one of the things that makes it persistent: the secrecy. The management of who knows, the careful partitioning of the part of your life that no one sees, the energy spent maintaining the appearance of control. That management is exhausting. And the exhaustion is rarely named because naming it would require acknowledging the thing being managed.

This practice offers confidential addiction counselling in Bermondsey — genuinely confidential, which means nothing shared in sessions is disclosed to any employer, GP, family member or third party without explicit consent.

The Approach

Addiction counselling at the Bermondsey practice is depth-oriented and individual. It draws on integrative psychotherapy, psychodynamic and Jungian frameworks — work that treats addiction not as a failure of willpower but as a response to something that has not yet been adequately addressed. The therapeutic task is to understand what that something is.

Where trauma underlies the dependency — and it frequently does, even when it does not feel obvious — EMDR may be incorporated as part of the process. Dr Jacquet is an EMDR practitioner with over 20 years of experience.

What Is Treated

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

Practical Details

No referral is needed. Sessions are available without a waiting list. The initial consultation is a private conversation — at your pace, without obligation to continue beyond it.