Discretion first
Addiction exists in Kuwait as it exists everywhere; what differs is the cost of being seen. Local treatment means local visibility. Dr Philippe Jacquet offers the alternative that senior people in the Gulf have always used: the London expert, now without the flight. Online by secure video from your home, in English or French, with total separation between your recovery and your world; in person at Harley Street when you are in London.
Who this is
Hazelden-trained, with nine years working inside private rehab, five years supervising rehab clinically, and twenty-five years of practice across addiction and eating disorders, Dr Jacquet works with the addictions of successful lives: the drinking that has quietly become structural, cocaine, gambling, the compulsions that hide behind performance. He is also a doctor of psychology whose research field is male eating disorders, which matters because food and addiction so often run together: the drinker who binges, the gambler who eats at night, the same emptiness employing different workers.
The executive alternative to rehab
Most senior people do not need to disappear into a clinic; they need serious, structured, confidential work that fits inside a life. That is this practice. And where residential treatment genuinely is needed, you will get independent advice from someone who spent years inside that world and takes no referral fees from it. The full picture of the addiction practice is here.
Beginning
A first conversation is confidential and without commitment. Book here.
Common questions
Is addiction help from Kuwait really confidential?
Yes, and by design. The practice is independent and based in London: nothing touches your local medical record, employer or family without your explicit consent. For many clients in Kuwait, the distance is itself the discretion.
What addictions does the practice work with?
Alcohol, cocaine and other substances, gambling, and the compulsions that hide inside successful lives: work, spending, sex. Dr Jacquet is Hazelden-trained, spent nine years working inside private rehab and five supervising it, and has twenty-five years of experience across addiction and eating disorders.
Can this replace going to rehab?
For many senior people, yes: an intensive, structured private therapy, arranged around your life, without disappearing for six weeks. Where residential treatment is genuinely needed, Dr Jacquet advises independently: having spent years inside the rehab world, he has no financial ties to any clinic.
What if food is part of it too?
It very often is: addiction and eating disorders are treated together in rehab because they are the same architecture. Both are treated here in the same confidential relationship, which matters especially in Kuwait, where the food struggle is common and rarely named.