Beyond EAP celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2024 – a fact I still can’t quite believe!I don’t need to tell you that lots of things have changed in the past decade (we all remember Covid, after all). But one particular change I’ve noticed is in the language I...
In the Hot Seat: Q&A with Sandie Dennis, Founder of Beyond EAP
February 28, 2024
With Beyond EAP’s 10th anniversary approaching, I found myself reflecting on the many employees we’ve supported in a variety of different situations. As I reflected, something interesting occurred to me. We ask so many questions in the course of our therapy work, so why ...
Why Does Your Employee Keep Resisting Support?
January 31, 2024
Addressing Secondary Gain: A Guide for HR Professionals
As an HR professional, you might have experienced the following scenario. A line manager talks to you in confidence about an employee whom they feel needs extra help. Yet when you approach the employee to offer the required support, they aren’t as receptive as y...
What Really Happens in a Beyond EAP Therapy Session?
January 4, 2024
What Really Happens in a Beyond EAP Therapy Session?
Partly due to the necessary confidentiality that surrounds it, therapy can feel like a mysterious practice in which all kinds of strange things take place behind closed doors. As such, there can be some misconceptions about what therapy sessions involve. I’ve pe...
Beyond EAP: A Year in Review 2023
December 1, 2023
It’s time for our Beyond EAP end-of-year review, which as ever, includes plenty of ups and downs. One particularly significant ‘up’ for us was the launch of our first online training course, How to Successfully Support Employees Through Maternity Leave… and Bey...
What employee therapy do we provide at Beyond EAP?
November 7, 2023
Note: this is a follow-on from our previous blog post: “Can’t HR provide workplace therapy?”When people hear the word “therapy”, many aren’t sure exactly what it means. They might know that you’re supposed to feel better after receiving therapy, but how t...
“Can’t HR provide workplace therapy?”
September 29, 2023
In August 2022, I shared a blog post about the benefits of counselling in the workplace. It was widely-read and I received a lot of feedback on the content: in particular the section that asked if HR could provide workplace counselling.Much of the feedback I received c...
Mishandling Flexible Working Requests
September 4, 2023
What are the negative effects for the company and the maternity returner?
I’ve recently had a family member go through a really bad experience regarding her flexible working request with her employer. *Hearing such bad practice, I wanted to highlight how this could have been avoided and how it leaves the employee feeling on their return to work....
How to deal with grief
August 1, 2023
What is Grief?
Grief is the emotional reaction to a loss; mourning is the process we have to go through to adjust to the world after a person has diedGrief is intensely personal, contradictory, chaotic and an unpredictable internal processGrief causes us physical and psychological pain and...
An alternative view on new motherhood and work
July 3, 2023
“It feels like some phases will never end... but don’t worry, they will.”
It can be difficult to speak openly about the pressures of new motherhood and work.From the moment you tell your employer that you’re expecting, it’s easy to feel as though you’re letting them down.Then, once your baby is born – and it feels as though your entire wor...
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