Meet The Team
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About us
Over 50+ years combined experience
Changes4Life 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 (8+) 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 Changes4Life 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 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 sessions can also include Hypnotherapy, Coaching, NLP or EMDR to help them work through the challenges in the shortest possible time using an approach tailored individually to them.
Within Changes4Life the quality of therapeutic relationship is nurtured, we focus on helping our clients 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, or even vulnerable, when considering disclosing private and personal information to someone they don’t know. This is the reason that we offer every client a free 30 minute telephone call with their chosen team member where they can get to know each other, whilst exploring and identifing the best approach, and to help the client feel at ease with the process.
