Tokyo

English-speaking psychotherapy for Tokyo

Tokyo is home to one of the world’s largest and most demanding expatriate communities: senior people in banking and finance, technology and consulting, diplomacy and law, many of them a long flight from family and working inside an intense corporate culture. Specialist mental-health care in English, with real clinical depth, is genuinely hard to find in the city, and the language barrier makes local services difficult to navigate for many who need them. Dr Philippe Jacquet offers that care online across Tokyo and Japan, in English, with the same clinical depth as at his Harley Street practice.

A private, highly specialised practice

This is a private, highly specialised practice, not general counselling. The expertise is consultant level: a Doctorate of Professional Practice, Hazelden training and more than 20 years of EMDR, for complex presentations such as addiction, eating disorders, trauma and, for leaders, depth executive coaching. No waiting list, free choice of therapist, and absolute confidentiality.

Global health cover deserves a globally trained clinician

An international private health insurance plan, the kind of global cover offered by insurers such as Bupa Global, Cigna and AXA, is among the best in the world, and it exists to give you access to genuinely specialist care, not a generalist. That care should be trained to the same standard. Dr Jacquet’s education spans three countries: addiction training at the Hazelden Foundation in the United States, a Master’s and a Doctorate of Professional Practice in the United Kingdom, and executive coaching at ESSEC in Paris, one of Europe’s leading business schools. Add more than 20 years of EMDR, and this is exactly the consultant-level, highly specialised care your cover is meant for.

Dr Jacquet works with major private health insurers, including Bupa, Cigna, AXA and Aviva. Ask about your cover when you get in touch, and check whether your policy is an international plan.

The pressures of expatriate life in Tokyo

Tokyo rewards performance and hides strain. The hours are long, the corporate culture is demanding, and a great deal of professional life runs through drinking, from client entertaining to the after-work nomikai that is hard to opt out of. Underneath sits the quieter weight of expatriate life: distance from family, the isolation of living inside a language that is not your own, the pressure to keep succeeding far from home, and the sense that asking for help would be seen. In that environment the drinking that has stopped being social, the control of food and the body when everything else feels beyond control, the anxiety masked by performance, and the burnout underneath the success can all take hold while a career keeps flourishing.

These are the presentations this practice treats, discreetly and online, in English: with the depth of a Harley Street consulting room, on a schedule that works across the time difference, and with nothing shared with an employer, firm or third party without your explicit consent.