Employee Assistance Programme

Welcome to direction's website. direction specialises in providing professional Counselling, Psychotherapy, Employee Assistance Programmes, Workplace Mediation and Independent Supervision. We also provide varied Training courses which can be tailored to meet your specific needs and Organisational Consultancy throughout Scotland.

Please contact us for further information or click on one of the following headings below to find out more about our Employee Assistance Programme.

What is an EAP?
What an EAP can help with?
Membership Options
How our EAP can save you money?

What is an EAP?

Our Employee Assistance Programme is an external, confidential service, providing counselling and support to you and your staff, delivered by our highly trained counsellors. Our EAP is a powerful management tool, which can give your organisation a competitive advantage. It can also help your organisation reduce absenteeism, save costs and help you retain your staff.

Our EAP is solution and goal-focused counselling and can enhance productivity and your employee's performance and morale. Your staff will feel valued and supported and more likely to go that extra mile in your organisation. They will also feel more committed and motivated.

Services available to members of the Employee Assistance Programme:
Bronze
Silver
Gold
1. Initial consultation within 7 days of first contact
2. Face to face, telephone and/or email individual counselling
3. 24hr answering service
4. Daytime, evening and weekend appointments
5. 10% off our training courses (These cover practical, work-related topics such as
     Stress Management, Essential Listening Skills, Communication Skills for
     Managing Relationships, and Assertiveness.)
6. Counselling provided within 30 minutes radius of your workplace
7. No telephone charges for telephone counselling sessions
8. Counselling available throughout the year and during most holiday periods
9. Self referral and/or organisational referral
10. Customer receives copies of evaluation forms completed by members of staff
       with respect to client anonymity and confidentiality
11. An annual presentation about counselling to customer’s supervisory and
       managerial staff
12. Report of staff attendance with regards to client confidentiality
13. General statement of progress of staff members
14. Opportunity to meet bi-annually with direction counselling and training to review
       and re-evaluate the employee assistance programme
15. Statistical feedback on referrals
 
16. A bi-annual report
 
17. Where trends are identified within an organisation feedback of
       recommendations and solutions will be offered
 
 
18. Consultancy and general advice to you, including support for managers dealing
       with difficult and sensitive situations
 
 
19. Telephone number given to clients for direct access to a counsellor
 
 
20. Face to face couple counselling
 
 
21. Up to 3 presentations each year to organisation’s staff about our EAP, what
       counselling is, how counselling can help, what we offer and different forms of
       counselling. This will  also give staff an opportunity to meet with us
       and ask questions about our services.