We have over 100 years combined experience helping people with all kinds of relationship problems and will be able to help you too.  Here are 6 good reasons to check out our Change Holidays if you are thinking of relationship counseling.

1) Get away from it all.

Either come by yourself or with your partner and view your life from a distance. If you are receiving  relationship counselling at home it’s difficult to “see the wood from the trees”. Opting for a change holiday gives you a much needed break out of your daily routine. 

2) Intensive individual program.                                                                                                                

All our programs are individual. You receive undivided expert attention from a senior counsellor with many years experience.

3) Saves Money.

We condense 4 months of relationship counselling into one week enabling you to make changes fast. This saves twice as much as you would normally spend on weekly counselling sessions during this time, and you get a holiday in Thailand too.

4) Personality Profile.                                                                                          

Central to our Relationship Counselling program are sophisticated personality profiles. We can tell accurately you and your partner’s personality traits and identify areas that will cause difficulties and work to overcome them.

5) Change Plan and 12 weeks follow up counselling

When you come on a Change Holiday you will leave with your own comprehensive change plan and receive 12 weeks online support from your counsellor to make sure you are able to put it into practice.

6) Huge amounts of experience of Relationship Counselling.

We have been helping to resolve all types of relationship problems for years. We have over 100 years combined experience and expertise at the highest levels. You are in safe hands.

Find out more about Relationship Counselling and Change Holidays:

Counselling Retreat Change Holiday

For years I(Chrissy) wanted to run a “womens holiday”, and now I am. I am very proud of it and it achieves what I always wanted it to; giving women the opportunity to re-evaluate their lives, and provide the means to make changes, big or small.

I want to outline 3 things that will help you change your life and that makes our womens holiday quite special.

Womens Holiday. No 1 – Just You

In order to change your life you need time to focus upon you without worrying about the needs of others; time out from your normal routine so that you can examine things from a distance.

Having been involved with specialist womens services for longer than I care to admit I am only too aware of the propensity of women to help other women. A lot of the specialist holidays and counselling retreats for women that I have been aware of actively encourage this in groups, both formally and informally. I really wanted to create a holiday where women don’t have to worry about each other; where there is no expectation to cater to the needs of anyone. Once this is removed we can get on and help you examine your life and make whatever changes you would like. 

Womens Holiday. No2 – Expert Help

In order to change our lives we often need more than what people around us give which is often advice, opinions or a friendly ear.

Change Therapy is a specialist type of help that is based upon evidence based interventions from motivational psychology. It recognises that in order to change we need something more than just opinions, advice or some sensitive listening.

Womens Holiday. No3 – Luxury

“We make better changes when we feel relaxed, understood and cared for.”

Our womens holiday incorporates as much luxury and care as we can squeeze in;

• Massages and spa and wellness treatments
• Food tasting tours in exotic locations 
• Private excursions
• Luxury boutique hotels
• Individual, daily Change Therapy course 

All too often womens holidays fall within the austere “Counselling Retreat” end of the holiday market, often operated on a shared basis. When you book a womens holiday with us you are treated as an individual, with a tailor made holiday being built around you.

Many women have now experienced our special life change Women’s Holiday and have made some wonderful, extraordinary changes.

Find out more ……… Womens Holiday

"We're changing our lives"

Change Holidays – A New Approach to Beating Mid Life Crisis

Lots of people who book a Change Holiday describe their problems as a “mid life crisis”. In reality this ranges from coping with affairs and relationship problems to being made redundant to just feeling stuck, bored and lacking direction.

 A change holiday with us is a unique combination of a tailor made holiday and a specialist therapeutic programme that resolves difficult feelings, addresses difficult situations, increases confidence and provides new ways forward. We do not offer gimmicks or tricks but just have huge experience and proven expertise in helping people change.

Mid Life Crisis Change Holiday 

• 7 nights accommodation in a boutique hotel in Thailand
• Help and advice booking flights (we have latest prices and flight schedules)
• Airport welcome and private transfers
• Clinical personality profiling
• 16 hours individual undivided daily attention with your own change therapy practitioner
• Change Therapy course
• 12 weeks follow up online coaching package

We are a small specialist company that is able to offer individual attention to all our guests especially at a time of crisis when things might well be far from easy. We help in booking flights and making sure that your whole experience is as worry free as possible. We’ll help you beat whatever mid life crisis you are dealing with.

We have helped literally thousands of people and will be able to help you too. We look forward to meeting you at the airport and sorting out your problems once and for all.

If you are experiencing any kind of crisis, mid life crisis or other, please do contact us to find out how we can help.

“Relationship problems” is a huge umbrella phrase covering a wide rang of problems, the full spectrum of which we help resolve on our change holidays.

Our holidays work especially well with relationship problems for one very good reason, they give you precious ”time out”. This time is spent not just waiting to return to the problems at home but really sorting things out and working out what to do next.

Relationship problems become part of everyday life and it’s often difficult to see a way forward when you are right in the middle of things. Having distance on your life and working through things with experienced specialists really does work. 

Come either individually or with your partner.

Relationship Problems and Relationship Counselling -  A Few Recent Change Holidays. 

Over the past year we have helped many people cope with affairs, make important decisions and deal with separation. Here are some examples to give an idea of how we can help you:

• Couple A. Spent 2 weeks at the Baan Deva mountainside reteat.They had tried relationship counselling and felt they needed something more. They had been married for 6 years and had drifted apart and felt bored with each other and “stagnant”. Frequent arguments and quarrels pushed them both into doing something about their relationship problems. They needed time out of their busy lives to assess where they both were in life and what they wanted to do next.
• Person B. Spent 1 week at the Puripunn Hotel needing to come to terms with the fact their partner was having a second affair in their marriage. They really needed to get away from the family home and think clearly about the decisions that lay ahead. They also wanted a damn good holiday and some comfortable easy going excursions and activities to “take their mind off things”. They were able to return home having decided what to do having created a comprehensive Change Plan knowing that we support everyone through the first three months with individual online counselling and support.
• Couple C. Arrived with us in a relationship crisis. A number of really difficult life situations had  happend very quickly and unexpectedly. They both didn’t know if there was a future in their relationship or not but needed to sort out immedeiate relationship problems without making rash decisions. They both needed time out to get some much needed objectivity and perspective as well as some joint relationship counselling sessions to sort out immediate concerns. After a week of joint and individual counselling sessions, as well as some great outings with our driver and guide some important decisions had been made and a way forward had been established.

I hope these few examples give you an idea of how our change holidays can help with a range of relationship problems.

If you need relationship counselling check out our Change Holidays esspecially our COUNSELLING RETREAT

“Life change sounds like an overpromise but its not. This is one of a kind, a once in a lifetime opportunity to find new meaning and direction in life, their approach is inspirational”. Bob, Toronto,Canada.

Self Improvement Holiday in Thailand.

Most people who book a self improvement holiday, are amazed at how much they actually manage to change and improve in their lives. There’s a sense of surprise that it’s actually possible; as though the whole thing might be some elaborate “overpromise”, a bit like every washing powder claiming to get your whites whiter than the last detergent you used.

We are a small specialist company that offer tailor made individual self improvement holidays and change holidays in Thailand that address difficult life situations, increase confidence and provide new ways forward.

Self Improvement Holiday: Active Ingredients

• Provide individual tailor made programmes and holidays
• Increase confidence quickly and effectively
• Use highly effective clinical personality profile system
• Resolve problems and establish new directions with evidence based interventions
• Clarify goals and aims
• Provide 12 weeks individual support after your self improvement holiday to ensure that changes take root.

Self Improvement Holiday: Northern Thailand

We will meet you at the airport and drive you up to our Retreat Resort up in the mountains of northern Thailand. The transfer takes 20-30 minutes. We’ll make sure you are settled into your own beautiful private villa either with it’s own pretty garden and veranda or secluded courtyard and jacuzzi pool. Each day you will enjoy a wonderful combination of tailor made trips and activities as well as our special Change Therapy program. Undivided attention from your own experienced practitioner.  

Self Improvemnt Holiday: Special Offer

Our all inclusive self improvement holidays start at just 29,900 Thai Baht (£524/$854) excluding flight.

Contact us now, we have all the latest flight prices,schedules and special offers.  

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6 realistic ways to change your life

Most people want to change something about their life. Whether it’s a big life change or some gentle tweaking this will provide some useful help. 

 ‘How can I change my life’ could mean almost anything. No matter how you phrase the question, the simple answer should always be the same:

Q. How can I change my life to be happy? A. Take action.
Q. How can I change my life to be richer? A. Take action.
Q. How can I change my life a lot?                A. Take action.
Q. How can I change my life a little?            A. Take action.

Any article, self help guide, professional helper or well meaning friend who attempts to address the ‘how can I change my life’ question, should always give a version of the same advice; ‘do something’.

Here are some simple steps that will help you change your life.

How can I change my life now?

Depending on the enormity of the changes you wish to make, you may find you need some help eventually. But the good news for anyone who wants to know how to change their life now, is that starting can be easy and fun.

How can I change my life, step one : Change your face!

Smile through your first ‘ How can I change my life’ day. Not in a wild scary way, just a simple smile at everyone you meet or talk to will do. By consciously making sure you smile at everyone, you will also make sure you connect with them…and people’s responses to you will change. Action causes a reaction, and your “how can I change my life” quest has begun.

How can I change my life, step two: Get moving!

If you’d enjoy two hours at the gym each morning or a daily run that’s fine. If however, exercise goes on the same mental list as taking the bins out, you’ll probably need a more gentle start. Daily half hour walks are good, playing squash or tennis with friends or going for a swim are great….and anything in between would probably be a big improvement. Exercise relieves stress and creates energy. If you’re moaning in protest, remember, this ‘how can I change my life’ thing was your idea.

How to change my life, step three: Help !

Helping some-one increases self esteem and makes us feel effective. Whether it’s shopping for an elderly neighbour, or taking a colleague under your wing, the affect will be the same and “how can I change my life” won’t seem like such a hard question.

How to change my life, step four: Make a list!

List your goals, what do you want to change and by when? Work out what steps you need to take in order to reach your goal. If your changes are reasonably straightforward; move house, seek promotion, makeover your wardrobe, you may find that ”How to change my life” steps 1-4 are all you need.

How to change my life, step five: Call for reinforcements!

You’ve made a great start, but there’s only so much you can do alone. If you are working towards making and maintaining a major life change,….or coping with a difficult situation thats life changing, then you may need some professional help. You’ve already taken charge of the situation…now call in the help you need.

How to change my life. step 6: Don’t give up.

The chances are you’re life changes wont be all plain sailing. It’s tempting to give up at the first or even second or third hurdle. Just remember, don’t. Most people give up just when they are about to cross the finishing line, don’t let yourself be one of those.

We have helped literally thousands of people over the past 20 years and will be able to help you too.

For a tried and tested Life Change Programme, delivered as part of a luxury holiday in Thailand visit our Life Changing Holidays, page.

Contact us for more information regarding counselling, therapy, counselling retreat and life-coaching services.

It turned out to be a very unusual Valentines Day this year, and one that changed my life.

My Counselling Retreat friend at the Elephant Nature Park.

For my gift, taking in my birthday and Christmas for a few years to come, my wife handed me airplane tickets for a ”Counselling Retreat” in Thailand. – “You’re going to sort your head out once and for all, or you might as well not come back!”

She had booked me in for an eight day “Counselling Retreat” with The Life Change People.

Over the last few years I have been through some major life changes; the arrival of our first child, my father dying of cancer, losing my job, moving house and becoming a house husband.

Despite being a happy and loving husband and father to the outside world, I instead became a negative,depressed, volatile and anxious man – apparently determined to destroy the love of my family and heading towards a major mid-life crisis.

This was, of course, oblivious to me as I wallowed in self pity and searched for the love that I was pushing away, angry with anyone who dared to contradict me. Looking back now, I honestly believe that without my counselling retreat change holiday, I would be separated from my family.

Entrance to my counselling retreat holiday in the mountains. A special place to make life changes.

My Counselling Retreat.

And so, I set of for my “Life Change Holiday”. Arriving in Chiang Mai was literally like a different world and the peaceful serenity of the Baan Deva Thailand Retreat hotel allowed me to relax and enjoy my counselling retreat programme.

The “Life Change People” are predominantly  Alex Gunn and Chrissy Richman who, with their considerable experience and expertise in the field of counselling,  coaching and Change Therapy decided to up sticks from Britain and set up this unique experience.

I spent the equivalent of about four months of weekly sessions rolled into an amazing seven days. The journey through my own mind was incredible as the sessions just seemed to fly by. I realised my behaviour had become  ridiculous and the effect on both my wife and children a dreadful revelation.

I was taught how to recognise feelings of negativity, volatility and anxiety. I learnt how to utilise various mental tools to overcome them and even turn them into positive actions.

And so, here I am. I have created my own website to promote my sculptural works. I am actually sculpting again to add to the collection that I already have and am currently sourcing outlets through which to retail them. I also started the website for the architectural / design side of my plans, currently on line. I am currently working on three projects for Homerworks and am now actively seeking to market this business.

More importantly, my relationship with my wife and children has improved immeasurably. I can only apologise to them for the man that I had let myself become, and continue to constantly remind myself of the lessons that The Life Change People taught me and continue to use them in every aspect of my life.

Michael Lewis Homer . www.sculpt-on-line.co.uk. 2009.

Find out more about Michaels counselling retreat holiday at Counselling Retreat 

“My time with The Life Change People was better than I dared hope, it was like taking a hoover to the dust in my brain”. Dan Davies. Editor.Esquire.

If you want to…..                                                                                           

Change Therapy with Dan."It was like taking a hoover to the dust in my brain"

• Feel better and make changes in your life
• Sort out difficult feelings and difficult situations
• Increase confidence 
• Discover some new ways forward….

Contact us and lets talk about how we can help. We offer Online Therapy and Change Holidays;  a brand new concept in making positive life changes.

We hope the following Life Changing Quotes may be helpful to you, we like them!  Contact us for more information about them or any of our life changing holidays, counselling retreats and services.

Life Changing Quotes

“If you treat a man as he is he will stay as he is, but if you treat a man as he should be and could be then he will be as he should and could be” Blaise Pascal

Lantern Festival Thailand.

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Abraham Maslow

“Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently”   Henry Ford.

“The more you read, the more you will know. The more you know, the more places you’ll go”  Dr Seuss. 

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails” William Arthur Ward.

Find out more about our life changing holidays Holiday Programs

Luxury Counseling Retreat. The pool at The Rachamankha Hotel.

A Counseling Retreat with The Life Change People is for people who want more than an ordinary retreat holiday.

Our Thailand Counseling Retreat, including the Life Change Therapy Program start at 31,000Baht (approx£563,$998USD).

Imagine being transported away from your daily routine and problems to a small exclusive mountainside retreat resort in Thailand. Imagine waking up on your first morning in your own luxury villa with it’s own secluded courtyard garden and pool and surrounded by orchids, colourful butterflies and complete tranquillity. This is one of our special counseling retreat settings at the Baan Deva Montra Thailand Retreat Hotel,Chiang Mai, Thailand.

We are a group of highly experienced and qualified counselors, life-coaches and therapists. We have developed a unique counseling retreat incorperating sophisticated personality profiling, life-coaching, recent advances in motivational psychology and evidence based therapy interventions. We believe that it is the best counseling retreat program in the world. So, whatever life is throwing at you we are ready to help.

“The Life Change People Counseling Retreat is amazing. It allows you to see ways forward that you never before realized, it gives you fresh hope and direction, even in spite of yourself.” Eva M, London.

Important to your counseling retreat is the 12 weeks unlimited online-counseling and life-coaching support on your return home, ensuring that the changes you make with us will not disappear along with your sun tan.

All of our Life Change Therapists are qualified, senior practitioners with over 20 years experience gained at the very highest levels, and widely respected within their own specialist areas.

At the beginning of your counseling retreat you will go through the results of your Personality Profile with our clinical psychologist. This  provides insight into your personality, highlights strengths and weaknesses,identifies barriers to change and provides ways forward.

Many guests intersperse their retreat with a series of excursions and activities designed to compliment and enhance your therapeutic program. You have exclusive use of our own, very popular, driver and guide, Son, who will take you on some wonderful excursions, tailor made to your own preferences. Recent trips that have been popular are;

• Touring local food markets and tasting authentic Thai food
• Visiting  mountainside Buddhist temples
• Elephant Trekking through the jungle and visiting the Elephant Sanctuary
• Visiting remote hill tribes.

Whatever your interests we will make sure they are included in your counseling retreat.

The last part of your counseling retreat is planning out your Change Plan. This details how and what you will change on your return.

Every guest that has completed our counseling retreat has gone onto make lasting and rewarding changes in their lives. If this is something you want as well talk to us and find out how we can help.

Alex Gunn and Chrissy Richman of the Life Change People bring their consultancy to Chiva-Som, Hua Hin, Thailand.

Chiva Som regularly hosts practitioners of exceptional ability to provide a variety of therapies and treatments for their guests. Their visiting consultants calendar is constantly changing on a monthly basis. To expand this even further, for the first time Chiva-Som is providing psychological support to complement its mind, body, health and spirit concept.

Alex and Chrissy, of the Life Change People, will visit Chiva-Som as guest consultants for two periods from the 9^th-20^th November 2009 and from the 22^nd February – 6^th March 2010 to offer Life Change Therapy.

If you are struggling with depression, mid life depression, mid life crisis, anxiety, stress, dealing with difficult situations or feel that you lack direction and uncertain how to improve things; and if everyone except you thinks you’re happy and successful…that you’ve “got it all’’, then Life Change Therapy will help you overcome these barriers. This will be a Spa and Wellness Holiday with a diference.

Life Change Therapists, Alex Gunn and Chrissy Richman, have been helping people overcome life’s problems for over 20 years. Over the past few years they have been running The Life Change Therapy Programme, a unique combination of sophisticated personality profiling, life coaching, recent advances in counselling based on motivational psychology along with evidenced based psychotherapy techniques. 

They work with lots of busy successful people, including journalists, lawyers, architects and those in the arts and media, who are managing their lives and impressing their colleagues, whilst deep down feeling dreadful.  “Career a success… relationships a disaster” is a familiar phrase. 

Anyone who wants to make life changes fast, or is having to cope with difficult situations, should experience a session with Alex and Chrissy at Chiva Som. 

 “…with Alex and Chrissy of the Life Change People I knew I’d hit the counselling and life coaching jackpot” -Tania Cagnoni, Conde Naste Editor and Travel Writer”

Alex commented; ” The relationship between physical, spiritual and mental/emotional health is well documented and there is a strong evidence base to suggest that a joined up approach, integrating psychology with the existing high quality treatments at Chiva Som, will make a lasting difference, enabling people to change their lives and maintain those changes.   Your Chiva Som-Life Change People experience will be with you for a lot longer than your sun tan”   

Chiva-Som offers fully inclusive retreats and holidays. A consultation with Chrissy Richman and Alex Gunn can be purchased at an additional fee. Please contact our reservations to book your stay. Tel +66 (0) 32 536 536 or fax +66 (0) 32 511 154 or email to reservation@chivasom.com or visit www.chivasom.com

For further information regarding the unique Life Change People services, including Adventure Holidays, Womens Holidays, Spa and Wellness Holidays, Solo Travel, Mind Body and Health Retreat and Counselling Retreats contact info@thelifechangepeople.com