Anxiety therapy in Singapore, online
Most people who contact me from Singapore about anxiety are not struggling in any way that shows. They are performing well, often at a senior level, inside a city that rewards exactly that and asks very few questions about the cost.
What they describe is a body that has stopped switching off. Sleep that goes at three and does not come back. A heart rate that responds to an email. A level of alertness that was useful during a difficult quarter and has not stood down since.
The version that hides behind competence
The hardest form to name here is the one attached to success. Singapore selects for people who cope: the posting went to the person who could handle it, and the whole social context runs on a quiet assumption that this is a good problem to have.
So the anxiety gets reframed as drive. Nobody questions a person who works late, trains hard and answers quickly. It usually becomes visible only when something physical gives way, or when a partner says they have become impossible to live with.
Low mood that is not sadness
Depression in this population rarely presents as unhappiness. It presents as flatness. Nothing is enjoyable, nothing matters very much, and the week is got through rather than lived.
The useful test is whether rest touches it. Expatriate life offers a great deal of travel and a great deal of leave. If the flatness is still there in Bali, it is not exhaustion.
What tends to be driving it
Three things recur in this city, and they are worth naming because people assume their case is unusual.
The first is that the posting removed every ordinary friction and, with it, much of what used to anchor a week. The second is distance from family, which is manageable until a parent becomes ill. The third is that alcohol is doing more work than anyone admits, lifting the mood for an evening and lowering the baseline by morning.
How the work is done
Sessions are by secure video on Singapore time, in English or French. The approach is depth-oriented rather than symptom management: where anxiety is carrying something, we find out what, because that is what allows the change to hold.
Where there is trauma underneath it, EMDR may be part of the work. Where drinking has become part of the pattern, addiction is one of this practice’s core specialisms and does not have to be sent elsewhere. Where it is primarily about the job, burnout covers that specifically.
Practicalities
With Dr Philippe Jacquet, UKCP-registered psychotherapist and Jungian analyst, twenty-five years in practice, from Harley Street, London. No waiting list, and nothing is disclosed to any employer, family member or third party without your consent, within the narrow legal and safeguarding limits explained at the outset.
A first appointment is confidential and usually available within two days: book here.
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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.
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 counselling available online in Singapore?
Yes. Sessions are held online by secure video, in English and French, scheduled around Singapore time.
What does counselling address?
Anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and a sense that something is wrong even when life looks successful.