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Jan Gerber has founded and managed health clinics across Europe, including The Kusnacht Practice, which introduced the highly successful one-at-a-time client treatment model.

As the founder and CEO of Paracelsus Recovery, he currently oversees a world-class rehabilitation centre that welcomes global UHNWs, billionaires and high-profile individuals as clients, combining expertise in medicine, psychiatry, nutrition and fitness to treat mental health conditions and addictions. 

‘We have a completely non-judgemental approach,’ Gerber tells Spear’s. ‘We’re not informed by any precondition or view of the world.’

Paracelsus provides clients with highly attentive residential care, Gerber explains, as well as aftercare once they complete their programme. In addition, the clinical team can treat clients at any stage of their condition. ‘That’s a really unique set-up.’

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Jan Gerber has founded and led private treatment clinics across Europe, including The Kusnacht Practice, where he pioneered the one client at a time model, and Paracelsus Recovery, where he is founder and CEO. His work has reshaped mental health care for individuals who require a high level of privacy and personal attention. Rather than adapting people to fit a system, his focus has always been on adapting care to the individual.

However, behind his professional achievements, Jan’s path has been shaped by his own experience of burnout and a difficult reckoning with the driving force behind his work. For many years, he built spaces where others could slow down and be honest, while continuing to push himself far beyond his own limits. That approach eventually collapsed when, in 2022, he entered treatment himself. Experiencing the process from the inside marked a turning point in his life and fundamentally changed how he understands recovery, responsibility and leadership.

Since then, he has continued to build and lead, but from a different place. The work is no longer driven by ambition or growth for its own sake. It is grounded in the belief that real change happens only when people feel safe enough to stop performing and begin telling the truth. Jan’s focus today is on creating environments where individuals are met without judgement and given the time and space needed to face what has long been avoided.

He speaks openly about the mental health challenges that often accompany success and wealth, drawing on both professional experience and lived understanding. In his words: ‘Healing starts when we begin to honour and recognise all those parts of ourselves that we are terrified will make us truly, truly unlovable. Because they don’t. In fact, when we face those parts of ourselves, it makes us more human, more honest and, ultimately, more alive.’