Therapy For Life's 'Employee Support Program' Reduce Stress related staff sickness now.

Employee Support Program

A program designed to promote health and wellbeing in the workplace, filtering positive skills and cognitions into all areas of life.

Support is provided in the form of therapeutic counselling to help balance your work, family and personal life.

• ·      Work Life & Pressures
• ·      Life Events
• ·      Relationships
• ·      Health & Well Being
• ·      Bereavement & Loss
• ·      Stress
• ·      Anxiety
• ·      Depression
• ·      Bullying & Harassment

Designed to help you in times of confusion, stress and anxiety. You will be given the opportunity to develop and gain the skills and awareness needed for a calmer more stable outlook in your life.

• All carried out with your therapist in a safe and confidential environment. 
• The service is completely independent from your employer.
• You do not have to inform anybody else that you have used the service. 

When you contact the service, the only information required from you is your basic details and the name of your employer. Any additional information you share is at your discretion. We are bound by the Ethical Standards of the BACP.

www.bacp.co.uk

Contact:

Samantha Crook, Founding Partner of ‘Therapy For Life’

Tel 07546 917 252

Email: sam.c@therapyforlife.net

www.therapyforlife.net

You will be sincerely welcomed to the service and receive help within a caring and confidential setting. People often feel relief when someone understands their problems on a deeper level. I will be warm, calming and respectful towards you no matter what you say, and hopefully you will trust me enough to reveal your concerns. The aim is to help you become an expert on yourself, and hopefully you will gain some skills to help yourself cope in the future.

Everything discussed will be treated with the utmost confidence.

Corporate Services - Employee Support Program

Reduce workplace stress – improve business performance

Excessive workplace stress leads to:

•   Lackluster staff performance

•   Long term absence

•   Low levels of morale and engagement

All of which have an impact on your bottom line.

In 2013/14 Stress, Depression or Anxiety accounted for the majority of days lost due to work-related ill health... 11.3 million days in total across England.

(Says the latest information from the Labour Force Survey)

Agreement

Therapy For Life would like:

·  To provide support emotionally and psychologically to any member of staff that requires it.

·  To teach skills for coping with anxiety and stress.

·  To provide information about external support sources relevant to the client’s issues.

·  To report any extreme circumstances to management (as we see fit) that may involve the physical safety of others.

·  To use an integrated therapeutic approach involving Cognitive Behavioural Therapies, Person Centred, Psychodynamic and Transactional Analysis as an aid to enable the client to reach their goal.

·  To provide a safe confidential environment for staff in accordance with the Ethical Standards of the BACP.

·  To be punctual, professional, reliable and effective.

·  To negotiate working hours to suit the establishment.

·  To offer opportunity for ‘Drop in’ hours for staff, which can be advertised within the firm.

·  To supply Leaflets, posters and counselling related interest emails sent out if required.

Company:

•  The company will supply an enclosed room to enable private confidential disclosure for employees or allow staff time to travel to our office in Southend-on Sea.
•  The company will allow members of staff 1 hour per week for an agreed number of sessions to receive therapeutic counselling.
• The company will be discreet in the best interests of the staff when allowing them to attend sessions.

The service can be provided for 1 day per week for members of staff who are interested.

The service will involve employees contacting ‘Therapy For Life’ directly, and will be booked by us.

We will then contact your firm to put in place procedure within management to allow the staff member to freely leave their workspace without question to attend the session.

Prices are negotiable depending on company requirements, but based around £50p/h per client (changeable depending on travel requirements)

Session allowance to be agreed upon per employee, and opportunity for discussion with management for an extension in special circumstances.

Employee Support Program - Communication

• A guide to maintaining effective communication of the support you provide to your employees.
• Inform the management team about the service provided.
• Communicate the benefits to the management team.
• Achieve a high level of initial and continuing awareness.
•  Inform employees of the benefits, quality and confidentiality of the service.

Employees to be fully aware of the service so that they can access it as and when the need arises – reducing stress-related absence and improving well being.

Employers benefit from effective communication of a visible, tangible and valued additional employee benefit provided to staff.

Leaflets, posters and emails can be supplied for staff, and management are encouraged to show support and have the ability to convey the benefits to staff.

Potential to provide future skills programs for management and staff regarding subjects such as:

·      Helping the bereaved

·      Spotting a colleague in need

·      Confidence and self esteem

·      Self awareness skills

·      Communication skills

·      Long term sickness

·      Preparation for redundancy and retirement

·      Staff performance and motivation, including sales performance and public speaking

·      Team building skills

·      Health related issues

·       Stress management and related pressures, including depression, maternity and smoking

Whatever your concerns, staff support can be tailored by Therapy For Life to suit your company’s individual needs.

Mental Health is becoming a No.1 focus for the nation, and many companies are seeing the huge benefits to offering this to their staff.

1. It creates good morale
2. A positive perception of caring management.
3. A general sense of well-being throughout.

...Which all goes towards productivity...

Are you're friends making you fat?

New studies have shown that good behaviours — like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy — pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses.

“People are connected, and so their health is connected,”

Christakis and Fowler concluded when they summarised their findings in a July 2007 article in The New England Journal of Medicine. They had collected information about their willing neighbours in Framingham, Massachusetts.

The Framingham participants, the data suggested, 

influenced one another’s health just by socialising. 

And the same was true of bad behaviours — clusters of friends appeared to “infect” each other with obesity, unhappiness and smoking.

Staying healthy isn’t just a matter of your genes and your diet, it seems. Good health is also a product, in part, of your sheer proximity to other healthy people.

When a Framingham resident became obese, his or her friends were 57 percent more likely to become obese, too. Different-sexed friends didn’t transmit any obesity to one another at all. If a man became fat, his female friends were completely unaffected, and vice versa.

With happiness, the two argue that the contagion may be even more deeply subconscious,

the spread of good or bad feelings, they say, might be driven partly by “mirror neurons” in the brain that automatically mimic what we see in the faces of those around us — which is why looking at photographs of smiling people can itself often lift your mood.

Christakis and Fowler say their findings show that the gamble of increased sociability pays off, for a surprising reason:

Happiness is more contagious than unhappiness. 

In essence, Christakis and Fowler’s work suggests a new way to think about public health.

It’s tempting to think, confronted by Christakis and Fowler’s work, that the best way to improve your life is to simply cut your ties to people with bad behaviour. 

Obviously this is possible; people change their friends often, sometimes abruptly. But reshaping your social network may be more challenging than altering your behaviour.

Source from NYTimes Clive Thompson

If you or someone you know is in need of some counselling in the Southend-on-Sea area, don’t hesitate to contact me by clicking here... Take care, Sam

Do fictional scenes of murder on television normalise and numb our perception of the act?

When I say ‘normalise’ I mean thinking that murder and violence is a commonplace part of the daily news and feeling absolutely normal about it!

And by ‘numb’ I mean dulling our senses so we don’t find the act as horrific as perhaps we should do.

I’m partial to a good drama series and murder mystery. I adore the ‘Dexter’ series - the lovable serial murderer that has constant turmoil with he’s own feelings.

But seeing these fictional stabbings, shootings, hangings, decapitations etc. over the years as FX improvement happens at an astonishing rate in film, TV and on computer games, does seem to have lowered the ‘shock factor’ for me when seeing bloody scenes and bits of humans all over the place on screen.

If I had been brought up in a ‘sliding door’ type world where none of this was ever in films or on television…

Would I feel differently and be more shocked when I read about murder in the news? 

I’m sure I would… and I think many others would too.

If television’s bloody scenes have that much affect on me, imagine what numbing the senses of a person with psychopathic tendencies would do! 

Not only could regular observation of fictional bloody horrors numb and de-sensitise any reaction that they might have started with, but could it also give them ideas!

And as television and films progress, they are always striving for the shock factor, so bloody fiction can only get more realistic.

That’s the issue really, showing us an experience that should never exist - yet looks completely realistic. 

It’s planting acceptability in our minds on a low level when we watch and absorb such creative fictional bloody violent scenes.

It concerns me that the growing violence and anger on this planet is spiralling, and our perception of doing harm to one another was once rated as highly immoral and despicable. Now with the detailed news coverage and rich HD violence based films, games and TV series’…

How accustomed to murder are we really getting?

By Samantha Crook

If you or someone you know is in need of some counselling in the Southend-on-Sea area, don’t hesitate to contact me by clicking here… Take care, Sam