Supporting Employees When Life Gets Complex: What HR Needs to Know Looking Ahead to 2026
February 2, 2026
Supporting Employees When Life Gets Complex: What HR Needs to Know Looking Ahead to 2026
Specialist employee support beyond EAP is becoming essential as complex life events at work increase....
Charlie Hainsworth was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2017, aged 38. She’d gone to her GP after noticing a strange hardness to one of her breasts.
Within three weeks she was told that the cancer had spread to her bones and that it was incurable, something known as s...
How to Recognise Situational Depression
May 3, 2023
Do you recognise different forms of depression?
Perhaps you weren’t aware that there was more than one form. Yet throughout lockdown, you may have unexpectedly gone through what many people refer to as ‘down’ days.Unsurprisingly, this is a subject I’ve heard a lot about over the past weeks. Several of the employee...
Beyond EAP: A Year in Review 2024
November 29, 2024
“When I was referred to Beyond EAP I was overwhelmed by recent events in my life and struggling to cope. I now understand that I can only support others when my own basic needs are met.”...
"Maternity Leave is Just a Long Holiday, Isn’t It?"
March 11, 2022
If I had a pound for every time I heard this from an employer, I’d be a millionaire by now.
Admittedly, I don’t always hear it first-hand. It’s often the pregnant employee herself who tells me, that on her last day the boss offered what seemed like “a fina...
“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...
Beyond EAP: A Year in Review
December 3, 2021
Have you heard of a ‘round-robin letter’?
Some people include these in the Christmas cards they send to their friends and family. In the letters, they describe the year’s key events for them.
While it’s easy to think of a round-robin letter as nothing more...
Employee Trauma Support: A Practical Guide
March 2, 2023
What does the word 'Trauma' mean to you? Everybody has their own personal definition of trauma, and that’s because trauma affects us all in very different ways.Many people assume that trauma can only result from a unique event that is recognisably shocking, such as being a...
Our work as employee support coaches takes us in many different directions.
Put simply, we are the people whom organisations contact when an employee is struggling with an intense life challenge, such as diagnosis of a terminal illness, bereavement, depression, and starting ...
How Does Your Company Retain Key Employees?
August 1, 2024
If you’re not sure how to answer this question – or your answer is “it doesn’t” – then you don’t need me to tell you there’s a problem!However, one thing to take comfort from is that retaining top talent is becoming more and more of a challenge. An arti...
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