Psychotherapy for international Amsterdam and the Netherlands
The Netherlands runs on people who came from somewhere else. The technology companies and the banks in Amsterdam, the institutions and embassies in The Hague, the engineering around Eindhoven, the port in Rotterdam: all of them staffed by people who arrived for a role and stayed for a life. It is a country that is very easy to live in and surprisingly hard to be known in.
Dr Philippe Jacquet works with that population online by secure video from his Harley Street practice in London, in English and French, on Dutch time.
Why people come here rather than wait
Dutch mental healthcare is good and badly overloaded. In October 2025 more than 101,000 people were on waiting lists to begin treatment, and more than 65,000 of them had already been waiting longer than fourteen weeks. The average wait to start treatment was twenty-four weeks.
For someone whose drinking is increasing, whose marriage is coming apart, or who has stopped being able to work, six months is not a wait. It is the period in which the thing becomes much harder to treat.
This practice has no waiting list. A first conversation can usually be arranged within days.
What is worked with
Burnout and the pressure carried by senior people, which is where most of this work begins. Couples therapy in English, including the particular strain of having moved as a pair. Trauma, with EMDR where it is indicated. Addiction, which grows quietly in expatriate life. And eating disorders, including the male presentations that are routinely missed.
Alongside those, the full adult range: anxiety and depression, relocation strain and the loss of identity that follows a move, midlife transition, and the question of what the working has been holding off.
Burnout, and what the Dutch system does with it
The Netherlands takes burnout more seriously than almost anywhere, which is to its credit. There is a recognised pathway: the company doctor, the sick note, the phased return. It is a humane system and for a great many people it works.
Where it struggles is with the people for whom burnout is not simply exhaustion.
Some people collapse because they have been working too hard. Others have been working that hard for a reason, and the reason is the thing to treat. Someone who cannot stop, who feels fraudulent when resting, who has organised an identity around capacity, will complete a phased return and be back in the same place within eighteen months. The programme cured the tiredness and left the structure underneath it untouched.
That structure is what this practice works with.
Working in your own language
Most internationals in the Netherlands work in English all day and would say their English is excellent. It usually is.
It is still worth saying what a second language costs in this particular room. Emotion and early memory are encoded in the language a person was a child in. People working in a second language tend to describe their lives accurately and at a slight distance, competently, almost as a summary. The register that matters, where the voice changes and something arrives that was not planned, is hard to reach in a language learned as an adult.
This practice works in English and in French as first languages, not as accommodations.
Where he is registered, stated plainly
Dr Jacquet practises from London. He is registered with the UKCP as a psychotherapist, with the HCPC as an art psychotherapist and with the British Psychoanalytic Council, and he is a Jungian analyst. He does not hold Dutch BIG registration and does not use a Dutch protected title. Work with residents of the Netherlands is delivered online from the United Kingdom under his UK registrations, and both registers can be checked publicly.
Discretion
International Amsterdam is smaller than it looks, and the therapist at the local practice may know your colleague. Working with an independent London practitioner keeps your inner life entirely separate from your professional and social world. Nothing is disclosed to anyone without your consent, save for the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the outset.
Beginning
A first conversation is confidential and without commitment, by secure video, on Dutch time. Book here.
All international work is delivered by secure video. How online therapy works here.
Dr Philippe Jacquet is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a Jungian analyst and an HCPC registered art psychotherapist, with twenty-five years of clinical practice. His Professional Doctorate in Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex examined male eating disorders from the perspective of analytical psychology. Registration can be checked on either public register.
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.
How the work is delivered from here
All international sessions are by secure video, in English or French. Online therapy is not a reduced version of consulting room work: it is the format that lets weekly work survive living abroad, travelling, or relocating. Sessions run in United Kingdom hours, which suits most regions, and if your time zone makes none of it workable, say so when you enquire rather than assuming it rules you out.
For clinicians and treatment services
Dr Jacquet supervises clinical teams in private residential addiction treatment and in a private psychiatric hospital. For treatment centres, psychiatric units and group practices looking for external clinical supervision, including in places where no supervisor of this seniority is available locally, team supervision is also delivered by video. For individual practitioners, see clinical supervision.
Common questions
Is there an English-speaking therapist available in Amsterdam?
Yes. Dr Philippe Jacquet works with internationals in Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Eindhoven online by secure video, in English and French, from his Harley Street practice in London. The Netherlands is one hour ahead of the UK, so scheduling is straightforward.
How long is the wait to begin?
There is no waiting list here. Dutch mental health services are under severe pressure: in October 2025 more than 101,000 people were waiting to begin treatment and the average wait to start was 24 weeks. A first conversation with this practice can usually be arranged within days.
Who is this practice for?
Internationals working for multinationals and startups in Amsterdam and the Randstad, founders, senior professionals on the 30 percent ruling, institutional and diplomatic staff in The Hague, and their partners: burnout and overwork, relationships and couples, trauma, addiction, eating disorders, and the strain of building a life in a country you did not grow up in.
Is Dr Jacquet registered in the Netherlands?
No. He is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a Jungian analyst and an HCPC registered art psychotherapist, practising from London. He does not hold Dutch BIG registration and does not use a Dutch protected title. Work with Dutch residents is delivered online from the United Kingdom under his UK registrations, both of which can be checked on the public registers.
Will my insurance cover it?
Dutch basic health insurance will not reimburse a practitioner who is not BIG registered. International and expatriate policies often will, usually on a pay and claim basis and sometimes requiring a doctor's referral. Invoices containing the details insurers ask for are provided. Please check your own policy before starting.