Cathartic Consulting offers proactive programs to organisations to support and improve employees’ wellbeing across domains such as psychological and emotional wellbeing, physical health, relationship with others and relationship with self.
Given that one third of our adult life is spent at work, workplaces have a significant impact on an individual’s psychological, physical and social wellbeing. Research has found that healthier and happier workplaces lead to:
- Improved productivity
- Improved morale
- Increased employee satisfaction
- Increased employee engagement
- Fewer disability claims
- Lower rates of absenteeism
- Higher levels of employee retention
Cathartic Consulting has the capacity to offer responsive intervention at times of need for organisations and employees including:
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Confidential counselling for employees for professional or personal issues.
- Group and Individual Employee Wellness Support/Debriefing Sessions.
- Critical Incident Response Support: Professional psychological support for management and employees in the case of trauma or critical incidents affecting employee or workplace wellbeing.
- Workplace Mediation and Conflict Resolution.
- Workshops and Training.
- Executive Coaching and Supervision.
- Psychological Referral Pathways for staff and clients.
- Additional Consultancy Services.
Employee Wellness and Support
Life and business sometimes provides challenges that can affect both how we function personally and professionally. Addressed early and with the right support, people are usually able to resume normal and often improved functioning.
At Cathartic Consulting, our experienced psychologists are able to provide professional individual and/or group support through our Staff Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Program (EAP). To assist with the successful integration of the EAP into your organisation we can also provide education to both management and employees on what the EAP can offer them. Managements understanding of the EAP is vital for the program to be accessed as a resource and source of assistance for employees and management.
The aim of our EAP service is firstly to build employee resilience and provide self care strategies. In addition, when employees are faced with adversity that challenges their general wellbeing, health, workplace effectiveness or personal life, our EAP service provides support and short-term, solution-focused counselling.
Cathartic Consulting can assist your business and your employees to achieve positive outcomes when experiencing a range of issues including but not limited to:
- Stress and emotional distress
- Feeling overwhelmed or ‘not coping’
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Decreased work performance
- Personal relationship difficulties
- Workplace relationship difficulties
- Conflict and communication difficulties
- Adjusting to change
- Problems with drugs and alcohol
- Gambling
- Financial difficulties
- Organisational change
- Coping in times of crisis
- Grief and loss
Critical Incident Debriefing:
Our critical incident response is customised depending on the trauma affecting your organisation and the potential risk for psychological harm. A critical incident response may be required in the event of workplace accidents, situations involving death, injury or violence, and distressing events including redundancies, change management, organisational or team conflict.
Our team is able to provide critical incident consultancy and support to assist your organisation to respond and recover effectively. We can provide onsite support, in addition to telephone or Skype sessions, or assisting management to develop a strategy without specific onsite support.
Mediation and Conflict Resolution:
Appropriately resolved conflict can have positive effects on relationships and organisations. However, when not managed efficiently and effectively, workplace conflict will impact the health of employees, business productivity and also increase the potential risk of workers’ compensation, staff attrition and bullying claims.
It is important that skills and plans are in place to proactively reduce the impact of workplace conflict, as well as minimising the risk of an escalation in the conflict. Our experienced team provides professional mediation services and a full range of resolution strategies.
Workplace Training:
Cathartic Consulting provides a range of workshops that assist managers and employees to develop the necessary skills for positive psychological wellbeing in the workplace. All workshops are tailored to meet the needs for your specific workplace goals. Workshops are facilitated in an engaging, positive and innovative style that maximises adult learning with real and applicable outcomes. We understand the importance of the retention of skills learnt in workshops. For this reason we provide tools that assist participants to maintain the skills acquired.
Managers and front-line supervisors may have access to training and consultancy, which will assist them to gain an understanding of:
- How to recognise when employees may be experiencing personal difficulties that impact on their work performance and/or safety.
- Psychological First Aid in the Workplace (self-care strategies)
- The impact of traumatic incidents on employees and how to support the employee.
- Leadership Training
- Change Management Training
- Performance Management
Executive Coaching:
A number of Cathartic Consulting’s staff have been employed in high level management positions and are therefore well placed to provide executive coaching.
Executive Coaching is a facilitative one-to-one, mutually designed relationship between a professional coach and manager/leader. The coaching is contracted for the benefit of an individual who is accountable for highly complex decisions with a wide scope of impact on the organisation. The focus of the coaching is usually on organisational performance or development, but it may also include a personal component as well. Executive Coaching is aimed at inspiring executive leaders to make behavioural changes, which transform themselves and the people around them, thereby, increasing business results and performance.
The primary reasons that executive coaching is ultilised include:
- To develop the leadership skills of high-potential individuals.
- To improve the likelihood that newly promoted managers will be successful.
- To develop management and leadership skills amongst those will strong technical skills.
- To correct behavioral problems at a management level.
- To help leaders resolve interpersonal conflicts amongst employees
