Mental Health in the workplace: The Value of providing mental health support for your employees.
Stress, burnout, and mental health problems are on the rise. Businesses have recently started to focus on physical health benefits, however providing mental health support in the form of counselling for employees is just as important. Providing free therapy sessions for your employees not only demonstrates your genuine concern for their welfare but also directly influences general business performance, morale, and output.
Why Mental Health Support Matters?
The complete well-being of a person depends not just on their physical health but also on their mental health. Workers who fight stress, worry, or hopelessness will lose their focus, inspiration, and vitality. These challenges can lead to issues without suitable support, such as absenteeism, and high turnover rates. Therapy provides a space for employees to create strategies to reduce stress, boost resilience, and improve communication of key issues — facilitating both their personal and professional development.
The ethical and practical benefits of counselling.
From an ethical perspective, offering the option for free counselling sessions to one’s employees demonstrates that your company values every employee as an individual, accounting for the different type of support needed by different employees.
Financially speaking, sponsoring mental health support programs benefits businesses in many different ways including:
Employees who have the opportunity to see a therapist may be more able to manage stress and maintain their attention on being productive.
Furthermore, counselling helps avoid burnout and long-term mental health issues which can reduce the frequency of sick days.
Higher employee retention: A company that gives mental health support as priority creates a supportive workplace which encourages retention and which reduces related recruiting costs and the challenges associated with high attrition rates.
Therapy also develops mental health awareness within the workforce and develops helping skills, that can help foster team relationships, develop peer support and lead to improvements in cooperation and teamwork.
Select Therapy's Advantages
Select Therapy offers customized counselling packages for businesses wanting to provide their employees professional therapeutic support with private online counselling sessions, with qualified counsellors.
All Select Therapy counsellors have been trained within the organisation, selected for the highest ethical and professional standards and are supervised in house on an ongoing basis.
Working with Select Therapy enables you invest in the success, health, and happiness of your workers. When your staff is motivated, your business thrives.
If you are ready to create a better, more efficient workplace email us at info@select-therapy.co.uk to learn more about our employer packages.