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GP Consortium Endorses Life Changes

12 December 2024

For the last two years Life Changes has provided a bespoke counselling service for the patients of the Eastleigh Southern Practices GP consortium. The sad news is that the funding for this project has now run out but Life Changes can take pride in the fact that we have provided a service that met, indeed exceeded, the hopes of the commissioning GP’s. Dr Neeraj Sonpal lead GP of the consortium gave the following endorsement ...

Chairman's Report 23/24

by PH947486 • 12 December 2024

This year has seen a significant degree of consolidation as we continue to put LCC on a more sustainable footing in the post covid era. This will also be my first AGM as Chairman and I would like to thank the work and effort Philip Meakins has put in over the years to getting the organization to where it is now! During the last 12 months we have been effectively been providing three services, our core service, supported by our team of 24 volunteer counsellors, the grant funded paid counsellor project (PCP), employing 8 counsellors that have qualified and migrated from the core service, and lastly, the ESP Network project, that uses a number of experienced paid counsellors, majority of which have worked with LCC for some time...

May 2024 Lottery Grant Funding

21 May 2024

Life Changes is pleased to announce we have obtained a Lottery Grant and can once more fund a limited number of financially challenged clients who cannot afford our current minimum fee, as well as continuing our work with Domestic Abuse victims (who frequently fall into the same category).

AGM 8/1/2024 at 7.00pm

19 December 2023

You are invited to attend LCC’s AGM on the revised date, Monday 8th January at 1900 hrs. on Zoom. We promise to pass rapidly through the boring bits and concentrate on giving all who have a stake in the organisation the opportunity to tell us how we are getting on from your point of view. Do you have any ideas how we can improve our service to our clients and /or our trainees. Are there any opportunities for the future you can inform us of. Or would you just like to meet the people who run the organisation in the (virtual) flesh? Maybe you would like to pick our brains about where we are going in the future? Perhaps best of all, would you like to join us in helping run the organisation? Whatever your position or point of view , we would certainly like to see you so drop Liz Rose an e mail at coordinator@lifechangescounselling.org.uk and we will send you a Zoom link for the meeting. In the meantime, may I wish you all the best for the festive season and a happy 2024. Philip Meakins Chairman

22/23 Chairman's Report

18 December 2023

22/23 Chairman's Report

Good News!

10 November 2023

LCC is pleased to announce that our Paid Counsellor Project (HiWCF) has successfully entered its second year on target. We currently have 6 of our alumni (counsellors who have worked with us and subsequently qualified) working on this project and by the end of next year, this is planned to be up to 8. Not only does this extra workforce help us keep our times from referral to treatment nicely low, the additional expertise and experience they represent is helping our ambition to constantly improve the service we offer to our clients. On a separate issue, our venture into providing a service to the NHS has now also been running for a year. The PCN (GP consortium) for whom we provide the service is very pleased with it and has extended the contract for another year. Well done to all involved for making such a success of this venture.

Annual Report 21/22 and Financial Update Nov 2023

by PH947486 • 10 November 2023

Annual Report 21/22 and Financial Update Nov 2023

Life Changes Counselling has provided low-cost counselling in the Southampton area for 17 years. We

November 2022 Statement and Funding

28 November 2022

Life Changes Counselling has provided low-cost counselling in the Southampton area for 17 years. We charge according to ability to pay and until recently have been able to run the organisation with clients paying between £0 and £30. Our target for seeing clients is 6 weeks from referral (currently significantly less than this). Since the summer the number of clients unable to pay anything at all has overwhelmed our business model and we have begun to run through our reserves in an unsustainable way. In August the trustees, with deep misgivings, decided that in order to balance the books we would temporarily stop taking new clients unless they were able to pay £35 a session, reducing it to a minimum of £15 if there was significant financial stress. Grant applications were made to fund those who were unable to afford these revised fees. To put these fees into perspective private counselling costs £50 and upwards, whilst NHS and large charities cost out at £100 to £150 a session.

Great South Run - Oct 2022

7 November 2022

Ed's amazing achievement in the Great South Run - October 2022

AGM 27/11/2022

10 October 2022

The Trustees of Life Changes Counselling invite you to the Annual General Meeting to review the year April 2021-March 2022 and onwards. It will now take place on Sunday 27th November @ 7.00pm on Zoom After the formal business of the meeting, we would like to turn this into your opportunity to contribute your ideas as to how we can continue to improve our organisation. To allow us to plan, please RSVP to: coordinator@lifechangescounselling.org.uk

Find Us

Winchester House is a white building with a gated archway and steps leading up to the front door, next door to the London Road Brewhouse pub and opposite Richer Sounds shop, on the corner of Carlton Crescent, Carlton Place and London Road. There is no reception so please arrive just before your appointment time. Press the LCC buzzer and you will be let in.

"The way she seemed to get me, understand me and then help me see. I’d just like to say thank you. It’s a great service you provide."
"Being able to manage my anger. The counsellor was brilliant at understanding and helping me move on."
"Your service has really made a difference, I feel so much better. I would recommend Life Changes to anyone suffering depression as it really works".
"Being able to talk about things (past experiences). I felt safe to talk about things that have been upsetting me for years. "
"My counselling is a stepping stone to a longer term recovery, and it was nice to NOT be set endless paper exercises after each session. I would like to thank my counsellor and all the staff, words are not able to express how valuable and helpful these sessions have been."
"Being listened to, challenged on core beliefs. Thank you so much for your help, I’m extremely grateful. "
"Understanding how my thoughts and feelings impacted my life and developing coping strategies. My counsellor added some additional sessions to help with my return to work. I would thoroughly recommend Life Changes to anyone going through a difficult time. "
Hello! I wanted to say thank you for everything LCC did for me. I am doing so much better now and I attribute it to you, I am in an undergraduate course and I’m doing well so far and I’m hoping to go on to do a masters here. I’m still on the autism wait list but the uni is aware and has good resources. I never thought I'd be able to do this, what you are doing is very impactful and I’m not sure where I would be right now if I hadn’t had our sessions - Thank you again. Kind regards, P

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