Couples Counselling

Couples and marriage counselling for Bahrain, online

For couples in Manama and across Bahrain, Dr Philippe Jacquet offers confidential couples and marriage counselling online by secure video, in English and French. Both partners can join from home, or from two different places if work keeps you apart.

A small island

Bahrain is small, and the professional world in banking, finance and services is smaller still. People know each other’s employers, children’s schools and weekend plans. For a couple in difficulty that closeness is double-edged: there is support around you, and there is almost nowhere to be unhappy privately.

Many marriages here also span two countries or two cultures, and some span two cities, with one partner commuting across the causeway or travelling through the region for work. Time together shrinks to weekends, and weekends fill with obligations.

What couples work addresses

Couples come for communication that has broken down, recurring conflict, the effect of long hours and travel, the aftermath of an affair, or the sense of having become flatmates. The work is not about assigning blame. It is about understanding the pattern you are both caught in, and finding a different way through it.

Where trust has been broken, the betrayed partner often needs their own space to steady before the couple can rebuild. Betrayal trauma explains what that involves.

Two languages, one marriage

Sessions can be held in English, in French, or in both. If one of you feels most yourself in one language and the other in another, each can speak in their own, and nothing important gets lost in translation.

Outside the local world

Working online with a practitioner based in London means the work happens entirely outside Bahrain. No clinic visit, no one you might know in a waiting room, and no local record.

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• Addiction counselling in Bahrain
• EMDR and trauma therapy in Bahrain
• Eating disorder treatment in Bahrain
• Executive coaching in Bahrain

See all therapy services in Bahrain.

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 Professional Doctorate in Analytical Psychology 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.

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