Geneva

Finding an English-speaking therapist in Geneva

For people living in Geneva, Dr Philippe Jacquet offers confidential psychotherapy, counselling and coaching online by secure video, in both English and French. He is a Jungian analyst with twenty-five years of clinical experience and an executive coach trained at ESSEC Business School. Geneva’s international, finance, diplomatic and expatriate communities are often underserved by senior, English and French-speaking clinical work, and the online format keeps it continuous through travel and relocation.

What is available

The practice works across the full range of adult difficulty, all delivered online: counselling and psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, stress and life transitions; EMDR therapy in London for trauma; confidential addiction counselling; specialist eating-disorder treatment; and executive coaching for finance and private-banking leaders. It draws where useful on Jungian analysis.

The particular pressures of an international career

Geneva runs on institutions that recruit from everywhere and move people constantly: the UN agencies, the WHO, the WTO, the humanitarian organisations, the banks. That produces a specific set of difficulties which do not show up in ordinary clinical writing.

There is the isolation of arriving somewhere for a three-year posting, building nothing permanent, and leaving again. There is the strain of holding a senior role in an organisation whose politics are opaque and whose reputation matters more than any individual in it. There is the particular exhaustion of humanitarian and field work, where what has been witnessed cannot easily be described to anyone who was not there. And there is the problem of a small professional world in which everybody eventually meets everybody, so that seeing someone locally carries a risk that is not imaginary.

Add to that the ordinary things that do not pause for an international career: a marriage under strain, a parent dying in another country, a child who is not coping with the fourth school in ten years, drinking that has quietly stopped being social.

Why senior people here often wait too long

The people who most need this work are frequently the last to seek it. A senior position makes the admission harder, not easier, because it introduces a fear that has nothing to do with the difficulty itself: that being known to be struggling will be read as being unable to cope.

Working with someone outside Geneva removes that calculation entirely. There is no shared professional circle, no possibility of meeting in a corridor, and no local record.

Confidential, and outside the local world

In a small, discreet city built around finance and diplomacy, privacy matters more than almost anywhere. Working with a senior practitioner outside that world, online, gives executives, bankers, diplomats and internationally mobile families a genuinely private space. Nothing is disclosed to any employer or third party without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the outset. All international work is delivered by secure video. How online therapy works here.

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.

International health insurance, or private

Many internationally mobile clients are covered by global private health plans, designed for exactly this kind of specialist care (see how to use your insurance for psychotherapy). Dr Jacquet works with major insurers including Bupa, Cigna, AXA and Aviva, and his training is international: the Hazelden Foundation in the United States, a Master's and Doctorate in the United Kingdom, and executive coaching at ESSEC in Paris. If you prefer to pay privately, without insurance, that is equally welcome; the work is exactly the same.

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.