Eating disorder treatment for Thailand, online
Eating disorders travel well, which is part of the problem. A person who has managed a difficult relationship with food inside a familiar routine can find it reasserts itself when the routine goes: different food, a different climate, a body newly on display, and nobody who knew what the previous years looked like.
This practice offers specialist treatment for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, ARFID and compulsive exercise, online by secure video, in English or French. Dr Philippe Jacquet holds a Doctorate of Professional Practice on male eating disorders and has worked clinically in the field for twenty-five years.
Why expatriate life complicates it
Thailand removes structure. That is often what people came for, and it is also what an eating disorder exploits. Meals stop being shared, a working week stops shaping the day, and the small accountabilities that hold behaviour in check quietly disappear. Nobody notices a skipped meal in a place where nobody is expecting you at one.
There is also the visibility. Heat and beach living put the body on permanent display in a way that a Northern European winter does not, and for someone already at war with how they look, that is not a neutral change of scene.
Men in particular
Men with eating disorders are still systematically under-recognised. The presentation is frequently different — bound up with training, muscularity, control and performance rather than thinness — and it is routinely missed by services built around a female template. Dr Jacquet’s doctoral research was on exactly this, and the work here does not require a man to translate his experience into a framework that was never designed for him.
What the work involves
Sessions are weekly, confidential, and concerned with what the eating behaviour is doing rather than only with what it looks like. Where the difficulty runs alongside drinking or drug use, which is common, both are treated as parts of one picture rather than referred out separately.
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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 Doctorate of Professional Practice 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 specialist eating disorder treatment available in Thailand?
Specialist provision in English is limited outside Bangkok, and much of what exists is either general counselling or residential. Online work with a specialist is often the more realistic option, and for many presentations the more appropriate one.
Do you work with men?
Yes, and it is a particular specialism. Dr Jacquet holds a doctorate on male eating disorders, a group routinely missed by services designed around a female presentation.
When is residential treatment needed instead?
Where weight or physical state makes outpatient work unsafe, medical care comes first, and that will be said plainly at the first consultation rather than after several months.