Hong Kong

Psychotherapy and counselling for Hong Kong, online

For people living in Hong Kong, Dr Philippe Jacquet offers confidential psychotherapy, counselling and coaching online by secure video, in English and French. He is a Jungian analyst with twenty-five years of clinical experience and an executive coach trained at ESSEC Business School. The online format suits one of the world’s busiest financial centres and its internationally mobile community, and keeps the work continuous through relocation, travel and demanding schedules. Sessions are arranged around Hong Kong time.

What is available

All delivered online: counselling for anxiety and depression; couples and marriage counselling; EMDR for trauma, with more than twenty years of practice; and executive coaching for finance and business leaders. confidential addiction counselling and specialist eating-disorder treatment; and it draws on Jungian analysis for questions of meaning and direction.

Why people in Hong Kong choose an outside practitioner

Hong Kong is a compact, high-pressure, internationally connected city where professional and social worlds overlap. Working with a senior practitioner outside the region, online and in complete confidentiality, gives executives, founders, expatriates and internationally mobile families a genuinely private space, and a depth of training not always available locally. For people in senior roles, this discretion is the condition that makes the work possible: one to one, private, with no group setting and no institutional record.

After treatment in the UK

I have worked with a substantial number of people who travelled from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom for addiction treatment.

They tend to go during a gap that has been engineered at considerable cost: a sabbatical, a long leave, a quiet arrangement with an employer. The programme is done properly. Then they fly back into precisely the environment that produced the problem, and the clinical relationship ends somewhere over the Gulf.

The hours are the same. The pressure is the same. The people who understood what happened are on the other side of the world, and the time difference makes even a phone call an act of planning.

I can continue the work from wherever you are, by secure video, at a time that fits a Hong Kong working day rather than a London one. The same clinician who already knows the history, rather than beginning again with somebody who does not.

If you are thinking about treatment in the UK, decide what happens afterwards before you go. The months after are where the outcome is actually decided.

Executive coaching for Hong Kong leaders

For founders, executives and senior finance professionals, the coaching here combines the rigour of an ESSEC business-school training with the depth of Jungian analysis, working not only on performance but on what drives it. Read more on the executive coaching page.

Why a good therapist is hard to find in Hong Kong

Hong Kong runs at an intensity few cities match, in finance, law and business, and within a dense, closely connected expatriate world where people often know one another. Genuinely depth-oriented therapy in English or French is in short supply, and recent years of upheaval and departures have stretched it further. Many people want more than a few sessions of technique. They want to be understood, and that is the work offered here.

How online sessions work from Hong Kong

Sessions are by secure video, scheduled across the time difference (Hong Kong is seven to eight hours ahead of London), typically in the Hong Kong evening. Meeting online, with a practitioner entirely outside the local community, gives a level of privacy that matters in a small, interconnected city, and keeps the work continuous through the frequent travel that senior roles demand.

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.