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When I worked teaching Motivational Counseling at university I had little idea about Life Coaching Holidays. I fondly imagined there was a plethora of variations on a theme; Life Coaching Holidays, Counseling Retreats and Therapy Breaks all offering people the opportunity to get away from it all, sort things out and return home with new ways forward. How wrong I was.

It seems so simple to me and an obvious alternative to the rather dreary endless trips to the local counselor or therapist....and you get a holiday in the sun as well. As our good friend Andrew Copestake who was one of the first journalists to come and see what we were doing observed…

“the trouble with normal Life Coaching and Counseling is that when the hours up you step back on the same uncaring pavement”

I know exactly what he means (read Andrews article here). Sometimes we just have to get right away. And, some of those times when we get right away we need help to sort things out and find new ways forward.

We had plenty of time to think about and plan our therapeutic program. Working as a psychotherapist for 20 years and writing a university degree in Behavior Change Counseling certainly helps as well. There are elements of our program that I am very proud of that I think make all the difference:

Evidence Based

Having studied therapeutic approaches for a long time and really understand the importance of only offering interventions that have a proven track record, that we know work. There are lots of things that counselors and life coaches do that look and sound like they should work but have absolutely no evidence base. Who knows, it could be brilliant or could be rubbish, unless I know it’s going to work we don’t do it. I think it’s unethical to charge money for something that is not proven.

Personality Profile

There are loads of these sort of thing on the market now. Almost every Psychology PhD to roll off the line puts out their questionnaire in the public arena in the hope of making a bit of money. Some are very good and some are extremely dodgy. The profile system we use is unanimously seen as the best in the world. It’s the one that all others are measured against. It’s difficult to read the scores and make an accurate interpretation which is why it’s sold under licence to qualified professionals. I’ve been working with it for about 12 years and have now notched up over 8,000 separate analysis. It's available online so we can begin working on how best to help you before you even arrive.

12 Week Follow Up

Every Life Coaching Holiday comes with a 12 week online follow up support package. Again, evidence shows that if you can make successful changes in the first 3 months after an intervention then your chances of long term success are almost trebled. I’m very keen to make sure you are one of these people. We don’t abandon anyone when they leave Thailand.

There are other things that I really like about what we do; Son and his amazing kindness on all the trips and activities, the fact that we are a small company and get to know all our guests as individuals and the fact that Thailand really is the best setting in the world for what we do.

If there is any further information that you would like regarding our therapeutic program please just email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Talk again soon.

Alex.