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 Changes4Life has expanded across the counties of Hampshire and Oxfordshire and now provides Counselling, Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, EMDR/IEMT, Comprehenisve DBT and specialist Coaching services to adults, children (8+) and young people.
The practice is well 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. This experience is the main reason their clients experience significant change, build resilience, create success, build self esteem, confidence and regain control over their life to create better and happier futures.
Vanessa, Jacqui and the Changes4Life team prides themsleves on offering you a confidential, open-minded, non-judgemental, “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.
She was able to be completely flexible with how she worked, completely giving me freedom in how I wanted therapy to be structured and the topics I wanted to discuss. She was able to easily swap between a therapeutic approach, exploring trauma or relationship issues, or a coaching approach offering practical strategies to help with day to day life.
Throughout our time working together, Vanessa was always very compassionate and warm. She was always engaged showing a genuine and caring approach which helped create a safe place where I felt comfortable talking about difficult personal topics
I can't thank her enough for the time we spent together and would thoroughly recommend her to anybody who would like to learn more about themselves, improve their mental health and learn practical strategies to help them with day to day life.
She is very down-to-earth and sensible and after asking questions and really listening to what one has to say, has a lot of insight into what may be troubling you - which she easily translates into ways that show a depth of discernment with understanding and sympathy, combined with practical help based on both theory and practical experience.
Within weeks I was able to see a way forward and regain my sense of purpose.
I cannot recommend Vanessa highly enough.
