Singapore

Psychotherapy and counselling for Singapore, online

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

What is available

The practice works across the full range of adult difficulty, all delivered online: counselling and psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, stress and life transitions; EMDR for trauma; specialist eating-disorder treatment, including particular expertise with men; confidential addiction counselling, including high-functioning presentations; help with burnout; and executive coaching for senior leaders. It also draws on Jungian analysis for the questions of meaning and direction that are harder to name.

Why people in Singapore choose an outside practitioner

Singapore 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 space that is genuinely private, and a depth of clinical training that is not always available locally. For people in senior roles or in the public eye, this discretion is not incidental. It 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 Singapore to the United Kingdom for addiction treatment.

Treatment is the part that gets arranged carefully. What follows it usually is not arranged at all. Somebody completes a residential programme, returns to Singapore, and the clinical relationship simply stops. They come back to the same role, the same expectations and the same small, tightly connected professional world in which being recognised at a local service is a genuine consideration.

The work does not end when the programme does. In most cases it has barely started. The first year home is where the outcome is decided, and it is the year almost nobody plans for.

I can continue the work from wherever you are, by secure video, scheduled around a Singapore day rather than a London one. Same clinician, same history, no repeating yourself to somebody new.

If you are considering treatment in the UK, arrange the year afterwards before you arrange the flight.

Executive coaching for Singapore leaders

For founders, executives and senior professionals across Singapore’s financial and business community, the coaching here combines the rigour of an ESSEC business-school training with the creativity and depth of Jungian analysis. It works not only on performance and leadership behaviour, but on what drives them. Read more on the executive coaching page.

Why finding the right therapist in Singapore can be hard

Singapore concentrates an unusual density of high-performing professionals: bankers, fund managers, lawyers, founders and senior expatriates, many working at a relentless pace. Yet finding depth-oriented psychotherapy in English or French, beyond short-term symptom management, is not always easy, and the cultural weight placed on composure can make reaching out feel harder still. Working with an experienced practitioner who treats the whole person, not just the presenting problem, is valuable precisely because it is rare.

How online sessions work from Singapore

Sessions are by secure video and scheduled around the time difference (Singapore is seven to eight hours ahead of London), which usually means the Singapore evening. The format stays stable through travel and relocation, and many clients find that the privacy of meeting from their own home or office, with a practitioner entirely outside their local circle, is part of what makes honest work possible.

For relationships under Singapore pressure: couples therapy in Singapore, online in English and French.

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.