The latest research findings accurately reflect the insights provided by our team of employee wellbeing coaches and counsellors at Wellbeing Partners: huge numbers of employees are feeling burnt out, with motivation and energy levels at a chronically low level; an overwhelming majority of employees (81%) want support with their mental health.

Wellbeing Partners have conducted more than 6,000 confidential counselling and mental wellbeing sessions with employees from hundreds of companies in the past 3 months, and the dominant themes have been:

• low motivation
• mental exhaustion
• lack of concentration
• low resilience
• apathy
• moderate to severe anxiety
• low mood

Our own front-line observations are keenly backed by the latest research findings from a survey of more than 2,000 people commission by Lime Insurance. The findings identify:

• 81% said they would like their employer to provide mental health support
• 26% of those surveyed did not think they were coping with stress
• 40% said they felt less resilient now than they did before the pandemic
• More than half said they feel pressure to hide their mental health issues

Wellbeing Partners co-founder and director, Lou Campbell, said “burnout is sweeping the nation’s employees, who have largely been working extremely long hours and with very little work/life balance, to help keep their companies and organisations afloat over the past 18 months. Our large team of mental health professionals, who work exclusively with employees, have observed a huge increase in symptoms which can be described accurately as “having nothing more to give”. Another interesting development over the pandemic is the number of male employees coming forward to get support for their mental health. Men now make up approximately 50% of employees reaching out for our confidential mental wellbeing and counselling sessions, up from 28% prior to the pandemic. Employers have a duty of care to support their employees’ mental health – not just with reactive services like EAPs for those in crisis, but with proactive mental health support services such as confidential counselling and wellbeing coaching sessions which are self-serve, responsive, highly accessible and effective”.

Wellbeing Partners provide confidential One to One Wellness Sessions to the employees of hundreds of companies and organisations around the UK who are committed to the positive mental wellbeing of their staff. The sessions focus on the needs of the individual employee and can provide help with burnout, anxiety about returning to the workplace, relationship difficulties at work or home, sleep problems, bereavement, isolation, depression, alcohol/substance misuse, complex mental health issues, and more.

For more information or to trial our confidential One to One Wellness Sessions service, please contact [email protected] or go to www.wellbeing.partners for more information.

• One hour per week for 4 weeks
• Starts Monday 15th March at 7pm – 8pm
• Live, interactive and instructor-led
• Online group of between 10 and 15 participants

Worry, rumination and anxiety are part of being human and we will all experience them from time to time. However, anxiety can grow to become an issue that impacts our mental and physical wellbeing as well as our ability to function personally and professionally.

This 4 week course, one hour per week, led by one of our fully qualified cognitive behavioural science instructors / facilitators, provides participants with the advice, skills and exercises to manage their anxiety, build perspective and gain resilience.

Drawing upon the theoretical underpinnings of Cognitive Behavioural Theory and Psychology, the course utilises a blend of practices from CBT, resilience training, stress reduction, self-compassion, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence to give participants a distinctive set of tools to help them respond to anxiety skilfully and with confidence.

This course will help:

– Normalise anxiety
– Develop awareness around our triggers and how to respond to them
– Explore our relationship to thoughts, cognitive distortions and anxiety
– Teach practical skills and exercises to help us meet and reduce anxiety
– Cultivate self-compassion and resilience in the face of anxiety
– Utilise gratitude and emotional intelligence as balancing forces at times of duress
– Furnish practitioners with skills to take out into daily life to face anxiety and flourish

Course Price: £150 per person

Please email [email protected] if you’d like more information or to book your place on the course

Our Services

With winter on the horizon and the prevailing uncertainty and restrictions of the pandemic, supporting employee mental wellbeing over the coming months is set to be a priority for many organisations as they look to keep their employees healthy, engaged and productive.

Here are four ways we can help you support the mental health and wellbeing of your employees during these uncertain and challenging times:

• From ‘Navigating the New Normal’, ‘Regulating Anxiety’ and ‘Work / Life Balance During Homeworking’ through to ‘Healthy Habits’ and ‘Kindness and Self-Compassion’ we have a wide range of 60 minute topical sessions and master classes for your employees, to help them adjust to and thrive in this new working environment. All live and interactive on the online platform of your choice.

• As the short days, grey skies and that feeling of winter dread creep in and disrupt our lives, we also have a selection of one hour seasonal sessions that provide practical, easy to implement tips and advice to help your employees maintain their mental health and wellbeing through winter and continue to perform at their peak. These include: ‘Beating the Winter Blues & SAD’, ‘Nutrition Strategies for Winter’ and ‘How to Strengthen Your Immune System’.

• Now, more than ever before, line managers are at the frontline of mental health when it comes to their team members. Our customisable, two hour Mental Health Training for Line Managers course, is a live interactive session that provides managers with the information, skills and actions to support the mental health of their teams. From spotting the signs and symptoms if someone is struggling, to knowing how to have a supportive conversation and signposting on to the appropriate professional support, this short course is an absolute must for line managers at forward thinking businesses.

• For your wider group of employees, our 90 minute ‘Talking Mental Health’ session is another live and interactive workshop that equips employees with knowledge about mental health, the basics around emotional support; and provides a range of tips and techniques to help employees improve and maintain their own mental wellbeing.

By way of introduction, Wellbeing Partners is the mental and physical wellbeing specialists, providing whole-person health programmes to organisations around the UK and across the world. We are the leading provider of stress management and full-service employee mental health services ( wellbeing.partners ) and have a full suite of integrated wellbeing solutions that focus on awareness, prevention and remedy.