Kuwait

A London expert, from your house

For decades, people in Kuwait have flown to London for expert opinions: the specialist consultation, the Harley Street address, the discretion of distance. Dr Philippe Jacquet offers exactly that expertise without the flight: confidential psychotherapy by secure video, from your own home in Kuwait, in English and French. He holds a doctorate in male eating disorders, has spent twenty-five years working in eating disorders and addiction, and practises at Harley Street in London, where clients from the Gulf are also seen in person when they travel.

Food, weight and the struggle nobody names

Kuwait carries one of the highest rates of obesity in the world, and behind the medical statistics sits something the clinics rarely address: the relationship with food itself. Binge eating at night, eating in secret, the shame after, the diets that always end the same way, and now the injections that quiet the appetite without ever asking what the appetite was for. Food, for many people, is doing a job: soothing, numbing, filling an emptiness. Remove the food without understanding the job, and the job finds another worker. This is the clinical territory of eating disorders and obesity in Kuwait, and it is the centre of Dr Jacquet’s doctoral research and daily practice, in men especially, who almost never seek help for it and almost always suffer it alone.

Addiction, in a country where it cannot be named

Addiction exists in Kuwait as it exists everywhere; what differs is the cost of being seen. Confidential addiction help for Kuwait, online with an independent London practitioner, offers what local treatment cannot: total separation between your recovery and your world. Dr Jacquet is Hazelden-trained, spent nine years working inside private rehab and five supervising it, and works with alcohol, cocaine, gambling and the addictions that hide inside successful lives. Where food and addiction run together, as they very often do, both are treated in the same room, by the same clinician.

Trauma, treated at a distance that makes it possible

Under much of the above sits a wound. Trauma therapy and EMDR for Kuwait, online with more than twenty years of EMDR practice: the privacy of your own home, the containment of Harley Street.

For senior leaders

For executives and business families, executive coaching and psychotherapy for leaders brings the ESSEC-trained coaching side of the practice to Kuwait: performance on the surface, and space for what sits underneath, in a single confidential relationship.

How it works

Sessions are by secure video, scheduled to the Kuwait time zone, in English or French. Frequency and duration follow the work, not a formula. When you are in London, sessions continue in person at Harley Street. Book a confidential first conversation.

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.