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 ...
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...
The Seven Key Pillars of Health and Wellbeing
June 1, 2023
In today’s society, we have come to understand that the word “health” doesn’t solely describe our physical state.
“Health” can also refer to the emotional, mental, and even social aspects of ourselves (as many of us discovered during lockdown!)It is the combination of these crucial factors that paint a comprehensive picture of our health and wellbeing.Many employees have been referr...
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...
Alcohol as Self-Medication. How to Spot the Signs
April 3, 2023
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world in numerous ways.
One of the most significant changes we have noted at Beyond EAP is that more employees have turned to substances like alcohol, to help them cope with life’s daily demands.When we think about all the brandnew challenges Covid-19 brought, this may not seem surprising. Sudde...
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...
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