Addiction Treatment

Addiction treatment in Monaco

Addiction in Monaco (alcohol, cocaine, gambling, sex, prescription medication) often goes unaddressed longer because high income provides insulation. Professional competence continues. The social world does not flag the problem. The point at which this insulation fails is usually the point at which people seek help.

Why addiction stays hidden in Monaco

Wealth conceals addiction more effectively than almost anything else. There is no financial crisis to force the issue, no missed rent, no lost job, the external consequences that bring many people to treatment arrive late or not at all. What continues instead is private: the steady narrowing of life around the substance or behaviour, the erosion of relationships, the growing distance between the public self and the internal experience. By the time the problem becomes undeniable, it has often been established for years.

The Monaco context

Seeking addiction treatment in Monaco carries acute visibility risks. The community is small, local practitioners are known to one another, and residential treatment requires an absence that has to be explained. This practice is based in London, with no connection to Monaco’s social or medical community, and complete confidentiality is maintained through encrypted video. For many people in senior professional or public positions, that separation is what makes seeking help possible at all.

Treatment approach

The work is individual depth psychotherapy: understanding the function the addiction serves, the structure beneath it, and the process of building a life that no longer requires it. Recovery is not a matter of willpower but of addressing what the addiction has been managing, often trauma, anxiety, or an emptiness that predates the substance. Dr Jacquet trained at the Hazelden Foundation and Hope-One, with over 25,000 hours of addiction work. The twelve-step model is recommended alongside individual therapy where appropriate, and dual diagnosis (addiction alongside depression, trauma or anxiety) is treated as a single, connected picture rather than separate problems.

Beginning

The first step is a confidential initial consultation, online and without obligation. It is a conversation in which you can speak about what is happening at whatever pace feels right, and in which we establish together whether this is the right place to continue.

About Dr Philippe Jacquet

Dr Jacquet is an integrative psychotherapist and Jungian analyst with over 25 years of clinical experience in London and internationally. An EMDR practitioner with over 20 years’ experience. Addiction specialist trained at Hazelden Foundation and Hope-One. Only European with doctoral research on male eating disorders. Executive coaching trained at ESSEC (FT Top 10 European). Accredited: UKCP, BAAT, HCPC. Supervisor of the clinical teams at PROMIS Recovery Centre and Cardinal Clinic (CQC Outstanding).