Workshops

Psychotherapy Workshops Brussels

Brussels is one of the most concentrated expat environments in the world. The European institutions, NATO, the hundreds of international organisations and lobbying firms and law practices that orbit them, draw people from every country and nearly every professional background. Most of them arrive with a clear sense of what they are there to do. Fewer of them have a clear sense of what it is going to cost — not financially, but in the particular currency of personal and psychological resources.

The costs are real. The social world of Brussels expats is simultaneously dense and shallow — busy with professional events and dinners, but often lacking the depth of connection that provides genuine support when something becomes difficult. The institutional environment creates its own specific pressures: the intensity of policy and political work, the compressed visibility of small professional communities in which everyone knows everyone, the particular strain of managing a private life alongside a professional identity that is always, to some extent, on display.

And then there is the transience. Many people in Brussels know they will leave. That knowledge makes it harder to invest in roots, harder to build the kind of relationships that might sustain you when things get difficult, harder to treat this as a life rather than a posting.

What This Practice Offers

Dr Jacquet is an integrative psychotherapist and Jungian analyst with 25 years of clinical experience. He trained and practises on Harley Street, London. He is an EMDR practitioner with over 20 years of experience, a trained art psychotherapist, and a specialist in addiction. He holds a Doctorate of Professional Practice and is the only person in Europe to have conducted doctoral research specifically on male eating disorders.

The clinical approach is depth-oriented and integrative. It works with whatever the person brings — whether that is a named clinical presentation (depression, anxiety, addiction, PTSD, an eating disorder) or something less clearly defined (a sense that the life being lived is not quite the right one, a flatness that has settled in, a relationship that has become difficult in ways that resist ordinary conversation).

The Jungian dimension of the work is particularly well-suited to expat experience. It asks not just what is wrong but what is missing — what parts of the self have been set aside in the service of professional performance, what the experience of living at a remove from ordinary life is revealing about identity and meaning. Those are questions that matter for people in transition, and that most short-term approaches do not have the framework to explore.

Practical Arrangements

Sessions for Brussels-based clients take place online via secure, encrypted video link. This is not a secondary option — the depth of therapeutic work conducted remotely is equivalent to in-person work, and for clients in visible professional environments the privacy of online sessions has its own value. Sessions are available at times that accommodate institutional and corporate working schedules, including early mornings and evenings.

For clients who travel to London — as many Brussels-based professionals do — in-person sessions at the Harley Street or Central London offices can be combined with online sessions, maintaining therapeutic continuity.

Getting Started

No referral is needed. An initial consultation is arranged directly with the practice — a private, unhurried conversation about what has brought you here. There is no obligation to continue beyond it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this therapy confidential even given my institutional role?

Absolute confidentiality is a condition of this practice. Nothing shared in sessions is disclosed to any employer, institution, government body or other third party without explicit written consent. This applies without exception, regardless of the professional context.

Can you work with the specific pressures of EU or NATO roles?

Yes. The practice has extensive experience with clients in senior institutional, policy and diplomatic roles. The specific dynamics of those environments — including the visibility, the intensity of the work, and the difficulty of maintaining a genuine private life — are familiar from many years of clinical work with people in comparable contexts.

What if I leave Brussels and need to continue the work?

Online sessions provide continuity regardless of location. Many clients maintain their therapeutic work as they move between postings or relocate, because the work is not tied to a physical address. Sessions can continue from wherever you are.