Executive coaching for Cyprus and Limassol, online
Most executive coaches are trained in a matter of weeks. The coaching offered here is of a different nature. Dr Philippe Jacquet is a Jungian analyst with twenty-five years of clinical experience and an executive coach trained at ESSEC Business School, one of Europe’s leading business schools. For founders, executives and senior managers in Cyprus, the work is delivered online by secure video, in English or French.
ESSEC rigour and Jungian creativity
Two qualities define this work, and they rarely come together. The first is rigour: ESSEC’s executive-coaching training brings a disciplined understanding of organisations, strategy and performance, and clear thinking about the pressures a leader actually faces. The second is creativity: Jungian analysis treats the imagination as a serious instrument rather than a distraction, working with intuition, image and the symbolic life, where leaders often find answers that pure analysis cannot reach. Most coaching offers one or the other. This practice brings both to the same questions. The executive coaching page sets out the approach in full.
What a Cyprus career does to people
Limassol has become one of Europe’s densest concentrations of internationally mobile business: shipping, finance, technology, forex and mobility platforms, much of it conducted in English by people who were not born here. Several specific pressures follow, and a coach who has not thought about them will keep missing the point.
The head office moved, and so did everyone in it. When a company relocates, the leadership team arrives together. Colleagues become neighbours, their children attend the same two or three international schools, and the professional world and the private one stop being separable. A disagreement in a management meeting is still in the room at the weekend. There is no commute home to a different life, because the other life is the same people.
The company grew faster than its managers. In shipping, crypto and platform businesses, people who were running a function of six are running a division of two hundred within three years. The skills that earned the promotion, personal intensity and a willingness to decide fast, are precisely the ones that fail at scale. The result is a competent person who is now visibly struggling and has no vocabulary for why.
Leading in a second language. Many senior people here run their companies in English while thinking in another language. Under pressure, nuance is the first thing to go. What the person intends as firmness arrives as coldness, and what they intend as urgency arrives as temper. They are then told they have a communication problem, which is true but not useful, because the cause is not communication.
A small and watchful community. The senior business world in Limassol is compact. Discretion is genuinely difficult, and the consequences of a difficulty becoming visible are more serious than they would be in London or Frankfurt. This is one reason that senior people here tend to wait a long time, and to look outside the island when they finally act.
Reactivity and anger under pressure
This is one of the most common reasons an organisation asks for coaching for a senior person, and it is routinely approached in the least useful way. The conventional answer is a technique: notice the signal, pause, breathe, rephrase. That helps for a fortnight.
The more productive question is what the reaction is doing. Disproportionate anger in a capable adult is almost always protective, and it tends to appear at a reliable point: the moment a person feels exposed as not fully in command of something they are supposed to command. Once that is understood rather than managed, the frequency falls on its own, because the threat it was defending against has been named. Anger in therapy goes into this at greater length, and coaching for executive stress and burnout covers the exhaustion that usually sits underneath it.
What this reaches that conventional coaching does not
A standard coaching engagement helps clarify goals, improve communication and manage time and energy. These are real gains, but they do not reach the level where the heaviest difficulties play out. Why does a leader sabotage relationships once they reach a certain level of success? Why take disproportionate risks, as if part of them were seeking to lose? Why does outward success sit alongside a persistent sense of not belonging, of being about to be found out?
These are serious clinical questions with answers, and the answers change the decisions a person makes. Psychotherapy for senior leaders and the C-suite sets out where coaching ends and something deeper begins.
Why this is not just another executive coach
Dr Jacquet is a clinician who is also a qualified coach, which is a different profession from coaching alone. He is a Jungian analyst with twenty-five years of clinical practice and a Professional Doctorate in Analytical Psychology, trained as an executive coach at ESSEC Business School, and a specialist in addiction with nine years inside private residential rehabilitation and over five years supervising a private psychiatric hospital rated Outstanding by the CQC.
The practical difference is that the work does not stop when the problem stops being behavioural. Exhaustion, drinking, a marriage that has become logistics, the discovery that the company succeeded and you feel nothing: all of it can be worked with rather than referred onward. A coach without clinical training will usually not recognise these early, and will coach around them for a year.
When the organisation is the one arranging it
Companies in Cyprus increasingly arrange coaching for named senior people and are invoiced directly. That works here, on one condition that is stated at the outset rather than negotiated later.
The organisation buys access, not information. The content of sessions is never reported back. No progress summary, no assessment, no attendance record and no anonymised aggregate is provided to an employer, a board or an investor, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the start. A senior person who suspects the sessions are being summarised to the people who commissioned them will use the hour to perform, and the engagement will achieve nothing. Firms that want reporting are better served elsewhere, and will be told so.
Alongside individual work, group supervision can be arranged for a leadership team from the same organisation, which builds a shared language across the group rather than developing one person in isolation. Clinical supervision for organisations explains the format.
How it starts
There is no free introductory call for individual coaching, and the reason is worth stating. A short unpaid conversation is a sales meeting. Both people behave accordingly: one is being assessed, the other is being persuasive, and almost nothing is learned about whether the work will help, because nothing real has happened.
The first session is the assessment. It is a full session at the usual fee and it is genuine work rather than a preamble to it. You will get an accurate sense of how Dr Jacquet thinks and whether you want to continue, and you will take something away from it either way. If he is not the right person for what you need, he will say so and point you somewhere better suited.
There is no obligation beyond that single session, and no package to commit to. Organisations arranging coaching for several leaders should make contact directly to discuss structure.
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.
Common questions
Is the coaching available online in Cyprus?
Yes. Sessions are held online by secure video, in English and French, scheduled around Cyprus time. There is no local office and no record held in Cyprus.
Who is this coaching for?
Founders, C-suite executives and senior managers in Cyprus and Limassol, particularly in shipping, finance, technology and mobility, who want more than a goals-and-actions framework.
Can an employer arrange and pay for the coaching?
Yes. Organisations can arrange coaching for named leaders and be invoiced directly. The content of the sessions is never reported back, and no progress summary, assessment or attendance data is provided to the employer.
Do you work with anger and reactivity under pressure?
Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons senior people are referred. The work goes to what the reaction is protecting rather than training a technique for suppressing it.