Zurich

English-speaking psychotherapy for Zurich

Zurich is one of the world’s leading financial centres, and its banking, insurance and asset-management firms draw a large, demanding international community: senior professionals, many of them expatriates, working long hours far from family inside a culture that prizes composure and discretion. Specialist mental-health care in English, with real clinical depth, is not easy to find, and the language barrier makes local German-speaking services difficult to navigate for many who need them. Dr Philippe Jacquet offers that care online across Zurich and Switzerland, 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 a high-performing financial city

Zurich rewards precision and composure, and it can make strain hard to admit. The hours in banking, insurance and asset management are long, the standards are exacting, and a culture built on discretion can leave little room to say that something is wrong. Underneath sits the quieter weight of expatriate life: distance from family, the isolation of living inside a language that is not your own, and the pressure to keep performing far from home. 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, and with nothing shared with an employer, firm or third party without your explicit consent.