Employee Assistance

I offer flexible, cost-effective support for local businesses, providing a mix of counselling, psychotherapy, CBT and business-focussed performance coaching, tailored to your individual company needs.

Being local and independent, the service is straightforward to set up and simple to administer with no lengthy processes or paperwork. This minimises the workload for you and the waiting time for your employees.

All sessions are delivered either online via zoom video call or locally at my Nottingham practice, which provides a safe, welcoming and relaxed off-site environment.

I am happy to work with clients on a short, medium or long term basis, there is no set number of sessions.

Sessions are held weekly, at a set day and time every week for the agreed number of sessions.

I set a bare minimum of 6 sessions for employee assistance packages, other than that I will be as flexible as I can.

The total number of sessions agreed on will depend on both what they need and what your budget is.

When we speak, we can look at the options and agree a plan to work together.

Employees who are suffering with stress take more time off sick than average – costing businesses over £19 million a year. Providing Employee Assistance is not just about being a caring employer or meeting legislation, it also makes very good business sense.

Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) can help to improve the health and well-being of your staff, reduce absence and increase retention as well as assist you to meet your duty of care as an employer in accordance with current Health & Safety at Work legislation.

In a nutshell, providing support through talking therapies can assist with:

• Reduction of absence and sickness time – through supporting employees through personal issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship issues, bereavement, loss and trauma.
• Resolution of communication issues – particularly due to conflict, anger or low self-confidence.
• Retention of staff – by helping to resolve work or personal stresses that may otherwise cause them to leave.
• Crisis support – for example following a trauma or major incident affecting an individual or group.

Business-focussed performance coaching provides practical support with identifying and addressing a range of common workplace issues and challenges that can arise for individuals, managers and teams.

Unlike therapy, it does not aim to address an individual’s personal or emotional issues but aims to address specific business issues, so focusses on the task at hand.

If any personal issues are identified as part of the coaching process, then the individual would be signposted on to appropriate sources of support outside the programme of performance coaching that had been agreed.

Business-focussed performance coaching can:

• support management in identifying and resolving staff performance issues at individual or team level.
• result in improved confidence, motivation, teamwork and communication.
• help resolve conflict and improved communication.
• help to manage periods of change in the workplace.
• help reduce work-related stress.
• help build resilance at individual or team level.

Once you have an idea of what you are looking for and what budget you have, please contact me for an initial telephone discussion and we will discuss your options.