Depression & Anxiety

Depression & Anxiety Treatment in Harley Street

Depression and anxiety are among the most common reasons people seek out a therapist on Harley Street. They are also, paradoxically, among the most misunderstood. Both are symptoms as often as they are diagnoses — signals that something in the interior life requires attention, rather than conditions to be managed and suppressed indefinitely.

Depression

Depression is approached here through a Jungian and integrative lens. The question is not only how to lift the mood, but what the depression is pointing towards. Depression, in the Jungian view, is not merely a malfunction — it is often the psyche’s way of withdrawing energy from a life that has become too small, too defended, or too far from what is genuinely meaningful.

This does not mean suffering is romanticised or left unaddressed. Medication is neither recommended nor dismissed — the relationship between psychotherapy and psychiatry is complementary, and Dr Jacquet works alongside prescribing clinicians where appropriate. But the therapeutic work goes beyond symptom management.

Anxiety

Anxiety is not treated as an enemy to be neutralised but as a communication — one that has something useful to say once the volume is turned down sufficiently to hear it. The integrative approach identifies what the anxiety is responding to, where its roots lie, and what the person needs in order to feel genuinely safe rather than simply less afraid.

Where anxiety has a traumatic origin, EMDR is used to address the underlying material. Where it is existential — rooted in uncertainty, identity, or meaning — Jungian and integrative psychotherapy is the primary frame.

Bereavement

Bereavement that has not resolved on its own often has more going on beneath the surface. Grief is natural and necessary. But when it becomes stuck — when the loss cannot be integrated, when the person cannot return to living — therapy can help understand what the loss means and what is needed to move through it.

The practice sees people in grief from death, from the end of significant relationships, from diagnosis, from the loss of identity that comes with major life transitions.

“Depression is not the opposite of happiness. It is the opposite of vitality. And vitality is not something you manufacture. It is something you find, usually in the place you have most been avoiding.”

— Dr Philippe Jacquet