Stress in the workplace, a growing issue?

"Bosses will be fined for workers' stress"
The Telegraph 4/8/03

"Employers who ignore stress face legal action"
The Independent 16/6/03

The need for employers to look after their employees' mental as well as physical wellbeing is growing all the time. According to figures from the Health and Safety Executive over half a million people say that they are affected by workplace stress and 13.4 million working days are lost each year because of stress and related conditions. (The Indpendent 16/6/03)

Looking after an employee's mental as well as physical wellbeing can have great benefits for the employer. Providing access to counselling in the form of an employee assistance programme can not only help reduce staff turnover, improve moral and relieve workplace stress but it could also have a positive effect on staff absenteeism.

Focus Counselling Services can provide:

• First class cost effective confidential employee assistance programmes tailored to the individual needs of your company
• Crisis counselling
• Specialist counselling training and advisory support
• Stress management training and related programmes
• Psychometric testing
• Counselling supervision
• Interpersonal skills training
• Individual, couple and group counselling
• Harassment training
• Motivational coaching
• Equal opportunities
• Brief counselling
• Long term psychotherapy

Our team of counsellors offer professional expertise across industry and commerce, local government, the professions, the public and private healthcare sector, universities and colleges.