Meet The Team
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About us
Over 50+ years combined experience
Changes 4 Life was founded in 2002 by Vanessa Boudier in Reading, Berkshire. Since then Changes has expanded across the counties of Hampshire and Oxfordshire and now provides Counselling, Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, EMDR/IEMT and Coaching services to adults, children (11+) and young people.
The practice is known as one of the most sought after therapy practices in the Home Counties, with the team having an impressive combined 50+ years of therapeutic experience for you to benefit from. This experience is a significant reason their clients experience significant change.
This experience is the main reason their clients experience significant change, move towards their goals, build their resilience, create success, build self esteem, confidence and regain control over their life to create better and happier futures.
Most clients are referred from previous clients, healthcare professionals and our work has also been regularly featured on the local radio plus featured on the BBC (for weight loss) in addition to local community publications over the years.
Vanessa, Jacqui and the Changes 4 Life team offer you a confidential, open-minded, non-judgemental, clear, “down to earth," professional and caring approach. This is at the heart of each team members practice.
All of the team undertake regular continued professional development ensuring they are up to date with the latest regulations and developments in counselling, psychotherapy, coaching and hypnotherapy.
The team all have different disciplines and specialist areas so please feel free to check through if there is a particular area that you would like to address.
Our Clinical Practitioners
Counsellors On Placement
Life has a little habit of ‘happening’
We don’t know what we don’t yet know and because of this we can sometimes experience significant challenges in different degrees at various times in our lives. We may need a little support to work through them and it is important to reach out and engage with trained professionals who are approachable, professional and compassionate. Our team understand that clients can benefit from an integrative approach where counselling and psychotherapy can also include Hypnotherapy, Coaching, NLP or EMDR to help them work through the challenges in the shortest possible time with an approach tailored individually for them.
Within Changes 4 Life the quality of therapeutic relationship is nurtured, focusing on helping their clients to feel heard, comfortable, safe and able to express themselves, which means they can make sense of their challenges quickly whilst working towards taking control back of their life once again.
It can be very normal for new clients to feel a little nervous, apprehensive or even vulnerable when considering disclosing private and personal information to someone you don’t know very well yet. This is the reason that we offer every client a free 20 minute telephone or video call session with their chosen team member to explore and identify together the best approach for you and to help you feel at ease with the process.
