Employee Counselling Services
Feeling overwhelmed?
Unable to balance your work and personal life?
Our Work Life Wellness Employee Assistance Program (EAP) can help you with personal, couple and family problems. We can also help you cope with work related stress and conflict.
In Your Personal Life, Do You:
- Get stressed out and worry too much over little things
- Have emotional outbursts that you later regret
- Feel overwhelmed so that you are unable to sort things out and make decisions
- Get so worried that you are having panic attacks that make you worry even more
- Find yourself drinking more than you know you should
- Feel lonely and unappreciated
- Wonder whether you should stay in your marriage
- Feel unable to cope after a significant loss
- Struggle to handle the care of an aging parent
- Frequently critical of yourself, and don't feel good about yourself
- Become overly harsh and critical of others
Learn more about how personal counselling can help with any of the above problems.
In Your Marriage or Relationship, Do You Find Yourself:
- Fighting too much with your partner
- Biting your tongue much of the time to avoid an argument
- Critical of your partner most of the time or feel constantly criticised by him or her
- Guarded and distant from your partner
- Always trying to please your partner and getting nothing in return
- Raising your voice and saying things you regret later
- Losing the respect for your partner that you once had
- Comparing your relationship to those who seem happier
- Getting the silent treatment from your partner
- Wondering whether it is possible to find the passion that was once there
- Wishing you were having more sex or that having sex was more fun
- Having an affair
- Unsuccessful at solving even minor problems on your own
Learn more about how relationship therapy or couples counselling can help.
As a Parent, Perhaps Your Teenager is:
- Uncommunicative and disrespectful
- Defiant, argumentative and rude
- Struggling to fit in with peers
- Highly anxious
- Extremely embarrassed to be seen near you
- Hanging with a whole new group of friends that you have never met
- Sullen, silent, spending hours alone in their room
- Has gone from a good or very good student to just getting by
- Abusing drugs or alcohol
Learn more about how family counselling/therapy can help you and your teen.
As a Parent, Perhaps Your Young Child is:
- Having trouble making or keeping friends
- Highly anxious and reluctant to try new things
- Being bullied at school
- Not sleeping well
- Fighting with siblings constantly
- Stubborn and uncooperative
- Having trouble at school learning and concentrating
- Being too aggressive and angry
- Shy, moody, sullen
Learn more about family counselling/therapy can help you parent your young child.
At Work, Do You:
- Hate going in much of the time
- Have trouble dealing with your boss or a colleague
- Get frustrated as a manager dealing with the interpersonal issues of other employees
- Feel bullied by your boss or a peer
- Feel harassed or discriminated against by a boss or peer
- Have trouble concentrating and are not completing your work
- Feel anxiety or panic while at work
- Gender discrimination
- Experiencing bullying by a boss or colleague
Learn more about how counselling/therapy can help with work related issues.
Counselling/therapy can help with the stress and struggle caused by issues in your personal or work life.
The Truth is that Most Problems are Compounded by Neglect and Avoidance.
"Seeing a counsellor at Source Line has made me really discover a different life. If it wasn't for my wife almost demanding I speak with a counsellor I never would have gone. Now I know things about myself I never imagined before. I like living more. I'm a different person. It's incredible."
Employee
Many people wait a long time before coming for counselling. They feel they should just suck it up. Meanwhile the problems usually get worse.
- Couples sometimes wait to get relationship or marriage therapy until one person is ready to divorce.
- Parents often don't acknowledge to themselves or others how much stress they are under regarding their teen or child's behaviour.
- Others tell themselves that they should be able to handle their anxiety, stress or depression all on the own and that asking for help is a sign of weakness.
- Some wait until they become so stressed they are unable to work and their doctor recommends they take a leave of absence.
"I never liked the idea of going to tell someone personal things about myself. I thought it meant I was weak or worse, crazy. I also didn't trust what they would think about me. Now I understand that it's helpful for me to talk to someone who won't judge me and who can help me learn some things about myself and other people. Since meeting with my Source Line counsellor I'm doing better at work and with my family. People notice a change in me for the better."
Employee
Don't wait for things to get worse.
Know the signs that you are having trouble coping.
Be courageous enough to seek counselling.
- Feeling disrespected or dismissed at home or at work
- Worrying that your children, family or marriage are in trouble
- Feeling overwhelmed, stressed out, depressed, anxious or angry much of the time.
All relationships change and evolve over time. As each of us ages and matures our relationship needs to grow along with us. Sometimes that growth is smooth and sometimes there are some bumps along the way.
Conflict is a normal part of all personal and work relationships. Resolving conflict respectfully can help a relationship grow stronger. Disrespectful conflict and avoiding issues can lead to feeling angry, resentful and eventually will erode relationships.
"I've seen counsellors at other times in my life and finally I found someone who could really give me the tools I need to understand how to cope with situations that have been difficult for me and really make the changes that will help me."
Employee
The Highly Experienced and Caring Counsellors, at Source Line's Work Life Wellness EAP Can Help You Find the Pleasure in Your Life that Has Been Missing.
The Benefits of Counselling
- Gain insight into your relationships in your personal or professional life
- Learn how to communicate effectively with composure
- Learn to listen with compassion
- Discover how to get yourself out of destructive interpersonal patterns at home or at work
- Find out how the impact of your actions matters more than your intentions
- Eliminate faulty assumptions about yourself and others
- Learn how to have greater influence with others at work and home
- Become clear about what can change and what can't in any relationship
- Discover effective parenting styles that are proven to work with teens and why old parenting styles won't work with teens anymore.
- Identify which of your buttons your teen pushes and how to get them to stop.
- Strengthen your parenting partnership while maintaining your own individual parenting style.
- Know how to avoid and diffuse the landmines in your family.
- Rebuild trust and mutual respect within the whole family
- Discover ways to enjoy your teenagers company again.
"I was diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) many years ago and have been experiencing recurring episodes of panic attacks, anxiety and night mares which, over years, evolved into a general depression.
When I first saw my counsellor, I was suffering from another spell of depression and anxiety that made me feel miserable, hopeless, inadequate, angry and sceptical just about anything in life. From the get-go, my counsellor had a no-nonsense approach to my problem and helped me deal with the cause of my issues rather than the consequences.
He introduced me to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, systematic and goal-oriented healing procedure. Over the course of several months, he taught me how to recognize symptoms and triggers of my depression and more importantly, how to defend myself from them by applying different techniques such as relaxation cues, meditation and breaking negative thinking patterns among many others.
Thanks to my Source Line counsellor, I am now recovered and enjoying my life again. The best of all, I am feeling confident that, if I ever slip to depression again, I have all the tools and skills necessary to fight it off.
Thanks for your guidance, counselling and friendship"
Employee
Your Next Steps:
- Subscribe to our monthly newsletter, Source Lines:
- Download a FREE copy of Source Line's Work Life Wellness brochure and we will also send you our monthly newsletter for employees called Source Lines.
- Please email (reachus@sourceline.ca) or phone 416 234-1316 or 1 800 394-8015 so we can answer any questions or to make arrangements for your FREE Phone Consultation