Workplace services
Counselling and other services provided in the workplace.
Work and home are two key areas in which your capacity to handle and enhance relationships is often vital.
Problems in one place may affect the other.
If you have worries connected with parenting teenagers at home, for example, you may be less able to concentrate on challenges at work.
Relationships Australia offers a range of services in the workplace.
Our Employee Assistance Programs, including counselling, can benefit employers and employees by:
- reducing stress
- contributing to a more satisfying workplace
- bringing more personal fulfilment from home and family life.
Benefits to employers
Our workplace services can produce, in general, a happier and productive workplace. More specifically:
- reductions in turnover costs
- less absenteeism
- less disciplinary action
- fewer accidents
- more inclusive decision-making.
Benefits to employees
You will learn ways of coping with difficulties in relating to colleagues and managers at work.
If some aspect of home life is the core of the problem, we can discuss issues such as:
- family violence
- emotional, physical or sexual abuse
- separation and divorce
- loss and grief
- adjusting to life transitions such as your children leaving home.
Employees attend sessions on a voluntary basis. Their issues/concerns are addressed in a confidential manner.
Employee Assistance Programs are currently offered by:
Contact the Relationships Australia office nearest you for information.