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Alcohol Addiction Therapy in Nairobi

Alcohol occupies a particular position among addictions: it is legal, socially sanctioned, and in many professional and social contexts in Nairobi, quietly expected. Which means the point at which drinking crosses from use to dependence is often obscured — both from the outside and from the person themselves. The question is not usually about the quantity. It is about what happens when the option is removed. About the anxiety that precedes the first drink. About the gradual narrowing of the things that provide the same relief.

This practice offers specialist alcohol addiction therapy in Nairobi — online via secure video link, and in person during Dr Jacquet’s regular visits. The work is depth-oriented and integrative: concerned not just with stopping the drinking but with understanding what it is doing, and what needs to be different for sobriety to hold.

The Clinical Approach

Dr Jacquet holds his International Diploma in Addiction Counselling from the Hazelden Foundation and trained at Hope-One Residential Treatment Centre in Belgium. He is an integrative psychotherapist and Jungian analyst with 25 years of experience, based at Harley Street. The Jungian dimension of his work is particularly suited to addiction: it takes seriously the way in which substances come to represent something — relief, belonging, freedom from the performance of the self — and asks what that something is and what it would mean to find it elsewhere.

Where alcohol dependence co-occurs with depression, anxiety, trauma or relationship difficulty — which is more often the case than not — the work addresses both together. One is rarely separable from the other.

Online and In-Person Sessions

Sessions for Nairobi-based clients take place via secure encrypted video link. For clients who prefer in-person work, Philippe visits Nairobi regularly and can arrange direct sessions. No referral is required. Contact the practice to begin.