Counseling Retreat

Welcome to The Life Change Peoples unique luxury counseling retreat in Thailand. Prices start from just $895/£549.

Our counseling retreat is like no other. Drawing upon over 100 years of combined experience we have put together a unique combination of counseling, life-coaching, personality profiling, cognitive behavioural therapy and 3 months dedicated online-counseling and life-coaching support on your return home. We believe that we deliver the best counseling retreat in the world.

“A counseling retreat with The Life Change People is like taking a vacuum cleaner to the dust in my brain, it is more effective than I dared hope” Dan Davies, Esquire.

Sometimes we all need to get far away from our daily lives to see things for what they truly are. Our counseling retreat fits reassuringly into this category. We specialise in providing counseling retreats based in a small selection of world class boutique hotels, in the stunning mountain setting of Northern Thailand.

All of our counseling retreats are tailor made to your requirements, whether you prefer to be in a tranquil five star oasis, or up in the mountains in a beautiful villa retreat resort, we will put together a tailor made itinerary just for you.

Out team of qualified counseling retreat practitioners all have experience gained at the very highest levels (meet us on the About Us page). We have helped literally thousands of people overcome every kind of difficulty the modern world has to through at us, from depression and mid-life crisis to bereavement and loss to simply a loss of direction.

Whatever problem or difficult situation you are facing contact us on info@thelifechangepeople.com and lets talk about how we can help.

Our aim is to help you make the changes you want to make, and make sure that they stay changed. That’s why everyone on our counseling retreat automatically has three months follow up online-counseling and life-coaching support, free of charge, on their return home.

We guarantee that the changes you make with us will not disappear as soon as the wheels hit the runway.

As many of our guests are often travelling alone we have come up with 2 counseling retreat special offers; The Solo Traveller, and Womens Holiday Special Offer. These 2 offers have been put together especially to take the worry out of solo travel. They include; a special airport welcome, private airport transfers, automatic room upgrade where available, private orientation and sightseeing tour and complimentary Wellness Spa massage treatment.

Because of the unique location of our counseling retreat we enjoy year round sunshine and warmth and are able to offer a wonderful range of other complimentary activities, ensuring you really do get the best out of your stay with us. Counseling retreat guests have enjoyed a full range of world class spa and wellness treatments, Elephant Trekking through the mountains, food tasting tours, shopping trips to markets and bazaars, private yoga sessions and special adventures up into the mountains to visit far flung hill tribes. You are accompanied on all of our counseling retreat tours by Son, our own immensely popular driver and guide who ensures that you get the best out of Thailand.

We look forward to welcoming you to this magical part of Thailand for a truly wonderful counseling retreat.

Contact info@thelifechangepeople.com for more information about counseling retreats and our other services that include Womens Holidays, Solo Travel Holidays, Babymoon, counseling, online-counseling, life-coaching and therapy services.

Beating Mid-Life Crisis

If you are experiencing a mid-life crisis, please read this, it will help.

We run specialist luxury counselling retreat programs in Thailand for people who want to resolve their mid-life crisis. Prices start from only $895 / £549.

Mid-life crisis is so common it might well be the norm rather than the exception. Throughout our early life we develop a sense of “growing up”. All of us at some point in childhood have said “when I grow up I want to …..” accompanied by a sense of looking upwards to the glorious summit of being “grown up”. This carries on throughout our teens and well into our twenties, climbing up that hill, gathering momentum, acquiring qualifications, careers and money which in turn carries on into our thirties with more stable relationships, perhaps children and then at some point thinking “this is it, I’ve reached the top of the hill, I’m grown up, now what?” The arrival at this summit, often prompts what people describe as a mid-life crisis, a sudden loss of direction, uncertainty, questioning, anxiety, depression and a sense of “is this it, is this my life and do I really want it?”

Sometimes mid-life crisis are prompted by life events such as divorce, bereavement, redundancy and we find ourselves staring blankly at a major cross roads thinking “now what”.

If you recognize any of the above, and feel you are dealing with what might be described as a mid-life crisis, contact us now to find out how we can help, and read on.

Mid-Life Crisis Buster Number 1

Statistics are on your side. Most people who recognize they are living with a mid-life crisis and want to change things go onto do just that. People who do not recognize their mid-life crisis, or deny what is going on are in a much more dangerous position and unlikely to change. The fact you are reading this is a good first step towards change. You know that you are unhappy and want to do something about it.

Mid-Life Crisis Buster Number 2

Often mid-life crisis are plagued by what are known as “Psychological Dilemmas”. This is where life becomes polarised into only 2 possible options, both are equally unattractive; you are caught between a “rock and a hard place”. “Either I stay in this job that I hate or I leave and won’t be able to pay the mortgage”. We loose sight of the different middle ways forward.

Mid-Life Crisis Buster Number 3

Mid-life crisis sometimes are difficult to shift either because we don’t feel that they are  important enough, or that other life events maybe obscuring their real importance or we lack confidence that if we were to make a change things would not work out. This lack of importance and confidence can keep us stuck in a mid-life crisis for years.

Mid-Life Crisis Buster Number 4

Call in the professionals. Talking through your situation with a trained practitioner and working out a plan of action will help. At The Life Change People we run special counseling retreats for people who need to sort out their mid-life crisis. Alternatively we have a comprehensive online-counselling service enabling you to resolve problems and difficulties at a time and pace to suit you.

Whatever your situation or nature of mid-life crisis please do contact us at info@thelifechangepeople.com to find out how we can help. Our other services include; Womens Holidays, Counselling Retreats, Solo Traveller Holidays, Babymoon, counselling, life-coaching and therapy services.

Individual Luxury Counseling Retreat

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

Our Counseling Retreat, including the Life Change Therapy Program (see Why This Works) 39,000Baht (approx£709,$1138USD).

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 pool and beautiful tropical garden 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 program of sophisticated personality profiling, life-coaching, recent advances in counseling based upon new 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 our 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.

Each day you spend as much time as you need with your own practitioner. 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 and identifies possible barriers to change.

The counseling retreat program is interspersed with a series of excursions and activities designed to compliment and enhance your therapeutic program. You also 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, and 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.

For further information about our counseling retreat, womens holidays, solo travel holidays, Babymoon and our other counselling, life-coaching and therapy services contact us at info@thelifechangepeople.com

We devised the Life Change Programme as a counselling, therapy and life-coaching retreat for people who want to change their lives. Please read the following profiles and if you see anything of yourself in any of them please talk to us about how we can help .

Profile 1. The Big Holiday.

Every year you book yourself a lovely relaxing holiday, maybe a spa holiday or two weeks by the pool and beach. As the holiday wears on you feel great, are able to see life with fresh clarity and feel inspired and excited with all the things you are going to do differently when you get home. About 4 days after you get home the inspiration and excitement has gone and you know deep down that nothing is going to change.

Profile 2. Successful Career, Unhappy Life.

You have worked hard to turn your career into a success, but are beginning to realize that in so doing you have neglected to ask the question “what is it that I really want out of life”? As time goes on you feel increasingly unsure where your life is going and how to change direction, and towards what? You feel increasingly closer to a mid life crisis.

Profile 3. Dealing With Loss.

Whether you are dealing with the loss of a  person,  marriage, relationship, job or career life is simply difficult. You have had change thrust upon you. Resultant depression, anxiety and stress overwhelms your life and it becomes difficult to piece things together to find the right way forward.

Profile 4. There’s Got To Be More To Life…

You find yourself sitting on a crowded commuter train/tube/bus or in another traffic jam on the way home from work. You look around yourself, at the people, and at your life and think  ”there’s something missing, there must be more to life than this.”

Profile 5. I Want To Change.

Suddenly it becomes quite clear to you, “I need to change my life”. The reasons for not changing suddenly out weigh the reasons not to. The balance is tipped and things will move ahead, but how?

If you recognize anything in these profiles and have considered either counselling, therapy or life-coaching contact us and lets talk about how we can help. Talk to us at info@thelifechangepeople.com to find out more about our counselling retreat.

The Life Change People also run specialist womens holidays, holidays for solo travelers, Babymoon and counselling holidays.

More and more people are considering taking an individual counselling retreat; getting away from it all, sorting out problems and worries and returning home clear headed and with a fresh lease of life. Here is what a counselling retreat with the Life Change People is like. What follows is a typical week long counselling retreat at the Baan Deva Montra Retreat Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand .

Our individual retreats, including Life Change Therapy Programme: 39,000 Baht (approx £709, 1138USD)

Counselling Retreat – Part 1.

Most of our guests fly into Chiang Mai from Bangkok airport via a short shuttle flight that takes just under an hour. We often advise on flight times and schedules to take the worry out of booking. On arrival we meet you at Chiang Mai airport, and Son our driver and guide drives us up to the  retreat hotel which is about 20 mins away up in the mountains. The hotel comprises of  secluded villas, some with their own jacuzzi pools, some with their own tropical gardens. It is very beautiful. The hotel is tranquil and peaceful run by a small staff team headed by Khun Narin who speaks perfect English and is thoughtful and kind. On arrival we settle you in, perhaps have a drink and a chat in the restaurant, and make sure you are okay. 

In the morning after breakfast we’ll talk you through your Personality Profile Feedback Report; it includes the results and analysis of the personality profile as well as outlining the programme to come. All counselling and life-coaching sessions are based at the hotel, either in a private shady spot in the gardens or on your veranda.

After lunch Son will collect  you and take you for a sightseeing and orientation tour. This is usually either further up into the mountains to Doi Suthep Bhuddist Temple , or into the ancient city centre. Wherever you decide to go Son will stop off at a local food market on the way back and introduce you to the delights of real Thai food.

Counselling Retreat-Part 2.

Day two will be spent talking with your practitioner, really getting to grips with and sorting out your problems and worries and working through the counselling retreat programme. 

After breakfast on day three you’ll meet with your practitioner again. After lunch you may well decide to really relax and have a massage in the hotel spa area. The following day is spent talking to your practitioner, but to make extra good use of the time  the afternoon counselling and life-coaching session is conducted in a secluded spot in the Royal Botanical Gardens; a stunning location far up in the  mountains. On the way back stopping off at Son’s favourite noodle restaurant and a visit to an orchid farm.

Day five is a day out from therapy and spent at the famous Elephant Nature Park. Son will pick you up at 7am returning later that evening. It really is an amazing experience  that you will never forget.

Counselling Retreat-Part 3. 

Day six is spent creating and finalising your Change Plan with your practitioner.This details your new plans and how you will put them into action on your return. As part of this you will be working out the best way to make use of our continued online-counselling support for the next 3 months

On the final day Son will arrive and take you to the airport where we’ll all be waiting to wave you off. Quite often guests take advantage of the direct flights down to one of the islands, usually Koh Samui or Phuket for an extra week or a few days on the beach. Again we can help advise and organise this.

The counselling retreat outlined above costs just 43,550 Thai Baht (approx £791 or 1,270 USD).

Please contact us at info@thelifechangepeople.com for further information regarding any of our counselling, therapy or life-coaching services. We also run Womens Holidays, Solo Travel Holidays, Babymoon and special programs to resolve mid-life crisis.

Ten Point Plan to Beat Mid Life Depression

1. Mid life depression is likely to increase with inertia and inactivity. Do something active. Pick something you enjoy, gardening, a brisk walk, dancing, exercise, anything as long as your heart rate increases and you are feeling energised. Chase your depression away!

2. Worrying creates more worrying and feeds into your mid life depression. This becomes a terrible downward spiral. Try to set aside time, perhaps from 6pm till 7pm to think about your worries. Try writing them down to get them out of your head as you go through the day.

3. Eat well and sleep well. Mid life depression worsens with lack of sleep and bad diet. Early waking and interrupted sleep patterns may make your depression even harder to deal with. When feeling low it’s very easy to neglect the things that will make a positive difference.

4. Mid life depression increases with isolation. Keep you family and friends close to you and try and tell them that you are experiencing a mid life depression. Don’t allow your feelings to isolate you from important means of support.

5. Feelings are transitory. Remember that however bad we feel, these feelings will in time change no matter what. When trapped in a mid life depression, it feels as though we will never be happy again. This is an unhelpful and painful illusion.

6. Altruism makes us feel better. The act of giving without expecting anything in return makes us feel good and combats depression. Find your local charities; children’s homes, hospitals, homeless units and start giving something to people who have less than you. You may find that your mid life depression lifts as you realise just how much you have to give.

7. Don’t be tempted to drink more. Drowning your sorrows will not work. Alcohol is a depressant and will make your  depression worse, especially mid life depression.

8. Keep it simple. Anxiety and stress makes mid life depression worse. Life is difficult enough as it is without un-necessary anxieties and stresses. Examine your life style and activities and ruthlessly remove anything that causes you added pressure and contributes to your depression.

9. Ignorance and uncertainty feed mid life depression. Write down any problems or dilemmas which contribute to your mid life depression and ensure you have all the accurate information you need in order to find your solution. Talk to the right people, and ask their advice. Take control back of your life and situation, and notice your mid life depression begin to fade away.

10. Take responsibility. Unless you do something about how you feel, your mid life depression will not change. Nobody else can do it for you.

The Life Change People can help you combat mid life depression. Change your life and chase mid life depression away. Sign up for an online Counselling  or Life Change Holiday today.

Contact us for more information about our counselling, therapy and life coaching services as well as our counselling retreat.

Babymoon Holiday in Thailand

When you got married you had a honeymoon….now it’s time for a BabyMoon.

Caroline and baby Sam. Babymoon Holiday.

The arrival of a child presents us with the biggest life change of all.  We will help you with the biggest event of your life.

We welcome you in luxury to your big adventure. We have created Babymoon  using recent advances in motivational psychology but aiming at the unique needs of those either waiting for the arrival of a baby……or dealing with the challenges of parenting.

Babymoon Holiday includes:     

BabyMoon: Sheriden, Tom and baby Ella.

Comprehensive personality profiling
Acknowledging fears and building confidence
Learning from our own childhood
Removing roadblocks to success
Comprehensive forward planning

and…..

3 months follow up online coaching course.

BabyMoon Holiday Price :

*35,500 Thai Baht for 2 people sharing a private Garden Villa.

Babymoon

7 Night Solo Travel Special at the  very special Puripunn Boutique Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A 7 night holiday in Chiang Mai. Thailand combining the Life Change Programme (including ; comprehensive personality profile, life-coaching and counselling, motivational therapy and tutoring, Change Plan, 3 months follow up online-counselling and life-coaching)  with a series of private sightseeing tours offering the best aspects of Thai culture, this includes;

• World class spa treatment
• Private tour and introduction to Thai food markets sampling the best of Thai food along the way
• Private tour to Doi Suthep mountain to visit the famous Buddhist Temple or Royal Botanical Gardens
• Full day at the famous Elephant Nature Park
• Private airport welcome and transfers…

55,000 Thai Baht (available until 31 Oct 09)

Contact us for a full range of counselling, life-coaching, therapy and counselling retreat services.

Enjoy a wonderful Thailand Retreat Holiday in your own private mountainside villa at the Baan Deva Montra Retreat Hotel nestled away in the foothills of Doi Suthep mountain.

This special offer ensures that you really wont have to worry about a thing. It includes personal airport welcome, private airport transfers and accommodation and breakfasts in your own tranquil mountainside Thailand Retreat Garden Villa. As part of this special offer we also include:

• Private tour through the mountains to visit Doi Suthep Buddhist Temple.
• Full day at the famous and award winning Elephant Nature Park.
• Spa Massage Treatment.

This offer is also inclusive of the unique Life Change Therapy; consisting of daily life-coaching, comprehensive personality profiling, daily counselling and tutoring, full change plan and 3 months dedicated online-counselling and life-coaching support ensuring continued success for all your plans.

43,500 Thai Baht for 7 nights

4 Night Spa Holiday at the Baan Saen Doi Spa Hotel, Thailand.

Ideal as a long weekend break or as part of a bigger holiday. Relax in this luxury boutique hotel taking advantage of truely world class spa and wellness treatments. This includes;

• Intensive Life Change Programme (comprehensive Personality Profiling, individual life -oaching,counselling and tutoring, Change Plan and 3 months online counselling and life-coaching)
• Complimentary world class spa and wellness treatment
• Private sightseeing tour of Chiang Mai
• Private airport transfers….

35,850 Thai Baht. (only available until 31^st Oct 09).

7 Night Solo Traveller Spa Holiday at the Baan Saen Doi Spa Hotel, Thailand.

Full week relaxing in the sun, swimming in the huge salt water freestyle pool. As well as the 7 Day Life Change Programme (comprehensive Personality Profiling, individual life-coaching,counselling and tutoring, Change Plan and 3 months online-counselling and life-coaching) this offer includes;

• Personal airport welcome.
• Private airport transfers.
• Private sightseeing tour through the mountains to visit the famous Doi Suthep temple.
• 3 complimentry Spa and wellness treatments inc, Anti Stress Treatment, Herbal Compress and Thai Massage.

52,470Thai Baht (only available until 31^st Oct 09)