International Stress Links to Members' Websites
If you would like help with a stress related problem you can email us directly at stress@isma.org.uk or search websites belonging to members of ISMAUK listed below. (Please note as these are 3rd party sites ISMAUK does not guarantee the accuracy of the information on these sites and any views expressed are those of the members and should not be assumed to reflect those of ISMAUK).
Members' Websites:
These members' sites are listed alphabetically and alphabetically by region. The regions are as defined by the Regional Development Agency (RGA) for England.
Regions are:
- East Midlands
- East of England
- Republic of Ireland
- London
- Northern Ireland
- North West England
- Scotland
- South East England
- South West England
- Wales
- West Midlands
- Yorkshire
Stress Tools and Resources
Stress assistance www.stressassistance.co.uk Stress Assistance is an online shop to purchase stress balls, stress cards, stress ball key rings, stress tips and downloadable products. Ideal for National Stress Awareness Day (NSAD), Wellness and Resilience days or for exhibitions, health fairs, wellbeing. Special packs available. You can purchase from one stress ball. Free postage and packing within the UK
East Midlands
Academy of Clinical & Medical Hypnosis Ltd www.ukhypnotherapy.org Based in Derbyshire and London. ACMH offers a range of accredited training courses in hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, NLP and stress management. Additionally, ACMH offers bespoke stress management training and employee assistance programmes and runs 'Coaching for Success' programmes aimed at sixth form pupils planning a University degree course.
AMC Mentoring Ltd www.amcmentoring.com AMC offers on site support for measuring and managing organisational stress as well as consultancy, training and therapeutic counselling. They are based in the Midlands but work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland. The Director is Ann McCracken who is currently the Chair of the Board of Trustees of ISMA.
Brightspark www.brightsparktraining.net Brightspark provides consultancy and training support to organisations that recognise the benefits of promoting wellbeing in the workplace. We offer strategic support to design and implement effective wellbeing policies, training for managers so that they can competently and confidently contribute to wellbeing within teams and awareness workshops for employees to increase their resilience to stress. With specific experience of working with organisations to implement the HSE Management Standards on Stress, we ensure that your organisation will meet its statutory responsibilities. We also provide flexible support programmes for individuals to develop wellbeing and performance. We also provide individual stress management coaching, face to face, or by phone or web cam. Based in the East Midlands, we work across the UK.
Calmspace Limited: www.calmspace.co.uk Calmspace combines tried and tested management theory and practice and the most up to date research on stress management to develop and deliver a range of stress management services that are tailored to the needs of each client. Our aim is to help organisations to develop and maintain more positive and productive working environments and individuals to maintain health and well being.
Getting You There: www.gettingyouthere.co.uk Offering a tailored approach to stress management for individuals and for companies wishing to support their staff’s well-being. Using a combination of techniques from coaching, hypnotherapy and NLP, Getting You There's stress management services are tailored to your requirements and preferences. You are invited to get in touch to discover how you or your employees could benefit from this approach to stress management. Based in Barwell (Leics) and Coventry.
Heys Stress and Wellbeing Management Ltd www.heysstressmanagement.co.uk: We enable individuals to identify and develop strategies to help them cope with the demands and pressures of modern day living; we help organisations to provide effective and robust stress and wellbeing management strategies, based on the HSE Management Standards approach, adapted to the organisation’s needs; we believe that by reducing stress and increasing wellbeing, everyone can be helped to achieve their full potential in their personal and work lives..jpg "L&G")
Legal & General are a leading provider of Group Protection cover in the UK with over 80 years of expertise and knowledge. Our Group Income Protection, Workplace Recovery, has been very successful at reducing stress-related absence, partly due to its specialist early intervention. Where appropriate, Workplace Recovery offers up to 24 sessions of vocationally based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can help get stress claimants back to work.
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
Occupational Mental Health Ltd www.occupationalmentalhealth.com Providing Stress Management and Lifestyle awareness Training and Education; Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) services to employees throughout the UK and... Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) services.
East of England
Aleph One Ltd www.aleph1.co.uk Biofeedback has an important role in Stress Management, and Aleph One Ltd provides a range of Biofeedback instruments, starting at £65, and other aids such as audio cassettes on Relaxation and behavioural problems and books on stress and related topics. Simple easy-to-use instruments show changes in arousal level by changes in the pitch of the sound they make. Easy to understand and to use by yourself, they provide feedback when you relax, or become more aroused, which you can use to learn to control your own level of tension.
Calmspace Limited: www.calmspace.co.uk Calmspace combines tried and tested management theory and practice and the most up to date research on stress management to develop and deliver a range of stress management services that are tailored to the needs of each client. Our aim is to help organisations to develop and maintain more positive and productive working environments and individuals to maintain health and well being.
Centre for Organisation Health www.orghealth.co.uk The Centre for Organisation Health was founded in response to the proven urgent need for primary prevention of workplace stress. Research into stress management indicates that whilst symptoms can be temporarily relieved, without transformation of workplace culture through delivery of effective manager behaviours, the stressed employee becomes demotivated, ineffective, takes sick leave and ultimately quits his employment. Our services, aimed at creating a resilient approach to stopping stress, include consultancy and assessment, in-house/public training courses, conflict resolution and mediation, use of psychology to reduce sickness and staff turnover, one to one support and counselling from SEO level down, annual employer support package.
CLAssociates – www.classociates.org.uk - specialises in stress management, mediation and redundancy support in the workplace. We have a proven effective approach that reduces stress and so improves the performance of the business. We provide stress audits, training, and 1-2-1 coaching. We have also developed a unique on-line stress management programme – Everything Stress – which includes the option of telephone or face-to-face coaching support. Our clients include both the public and private sector.
Heys Stress and Wellbeing Management Ltd www.heysstressmanagement.co.uk: We enable individuals to identify and develop strategies to help them cope with the demands and pressures of modern day living; we help organisations to provide effective and robust stress and wellbeing management strategies, based on the HSE Management Standards approach, adapted to the organisation’s needs; we believe that by reducing stress and increasing wellbeing, everyone can be helped to achieve their full potential in their personal and work lives.
Houghton Safety Services Ltd www.hsafety.co.uk We offer stress management solutions based upon the HSE Management Standards and other HSE approved guidance and tools for managing stress in the workplace. Our clients range from small businesses to corporate and public sector organisations. All of our programmes and training are designed to enhance staff well-being, morale and productivity, whilst helping you to comply with your legal obligations. This will reduce the risk of enforcement action, litigation and claims at employment tribunals against your organisation.
JODA Training. www.jodatraining.co.uk 'JODA Training was founded in 1995 by Simon Chater who is currently the Managing Partner. With over 20 years’ experience as an Operational Manager, Simon has specialised in management and personal development at operational levels in both the Public & Commercial Sectors. We offer a wide range of training courses available and currently offer programmes in a variety of areas essential to Personal Development including Leadership, Management, Customer Service, Stress Management, Redundancy, Building Professional Relationships and many more. We aim to provide the very best in training interventions and materials to match your individual needs and specifications. We can help you achieve your goals at a pace and level you require by providing tailored strategies to meet your development needs, supported by appropriate levels of tutoring and mentoring.'
Legal & General are a leading provider of Group Protection cover in the UK with over 80 years of expertise and knowledge. Our Group Income Protection, Workplace Recovery, has been very successful at reducing stress-related absence, partly due to its specialist early intervention. Where appropriate, Workplace Recovery offers up to 24 sessions of vocationally based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can help get stress claimants back to work.
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
Workscales Ltd www.workscales.co.uk is a small friendly local company based in Hertfordshire offering a bespoke range of stress management services, including stress audits, one-to-one stress counselling, management coaching and workshops for managers and staff. We specialise in helping your management team recognise signs of stress in your staff , increase their communication and people skills and avoid staff absences and poor morale. Money back guarantee if not pleased with the result!
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Ireland
Lifehandle www.lifehandle.com LifeHandle offers stress management and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to both individuals and organisations. Stress Management courses can be geared to suit the organisation in terms of audience size and course duration. LifeHandle is owned and run by John O'Donoghue (B.Sc. Psych).
Renewal Consultants www.renewalconsultants.com Renewal Consultants is run by Therese Ryan, who is one of Irelands leading stress management and wellbeing experts. She has worked on the RTE Health Programmes 'How Long Will You Live?' and 'Health of the Nation', and is consulted by both the press and broadcast media for her advice and opinions. Therese works with individuals and organisations delivering one-to-one and group stress management and wellbeing programmes. The services delivered by Therese aim to support individuals and organisations in sustaining health, vitality and work performance. Please refer to the website for additional information and a list of services www.renewalconsultants.com.
London
Academy of Clinical & Medical Hypnosis Ltd www.ukhypnotherapy.org Based in Derbyshire and London. ACMH offers a range of accredited training courses in hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, NLP and stress management. Additionally, ACMH offers bespoke stress management training and employee assistance programmes and runs 'Coaching for Success' programmes aimed at sixth form pupils planning a University degree course.
Carole Spiers Group Ltd www.carolespiersgroup.com Dynamic, leading-edge consultancy specialising in training and employee counselling at the service of top corporations. Established in 1987 and providing a valuable niche in the field of workplace stress management and critical incident support, bringing proven, tangible benefits to a long roll of prestige clients such as Abbey, Health Education Authority, Sainsbury's, Rolls Royce, Walt Disney, Panasonic UK, Unilever and the Bank of England. Carole Spiers is a BBC Broadcaster, Motivational Speaker and a VP of ISMA. She is author of Tolley’s ‘Managing Stress in the Workplace’ - published by LexisNexisUK as well as being a regular contributor to professional journals and the national press.
Dr Alice Greene www.dralicegreene.com As a Doctor, qualified Psychotherapist and Autogenic Trainer with over 20 years experience, I help people from all kinds of background to deal with a wide variety of personal and professional issues concerning loss, depression, anxiety, anger, stress & sleep management; relationship and marital problems, work place issues and adapting to overwhelming life changes. I am UKCP registered and British Autogenic Society Fellow.
Heys Stress and Wellbeing Management Ltd www.heysstressmanagement.co.uk: We enable individuals to identify and develop strategies to help them cope with the demands and pressures of modern day living; we help organisations to provide effective and robust stress and wellbeing management strategies, based on the HSE Management Standards approach, adapted to the organisation’s needs; we believe that by reducing stress and increasing wellbeing, everyone can be helped to achieve their full potential in their personal and work lives.
How to Heal with Keira Henry. www.howtoheal.co.uk How to Heal is a recovery programme for healing from various conditions which are exacerbated by stress. It is based on the science of psycho-neuro-immunology (mind-body science) which focuses on how stress can cause chronic conditions to develop / continue. Through various tools and techniques which reduce stress in the body and change habits, the body can regain balance and you can finally heal. Conditions we work with include ME / CFS, PVFS, Fibromyalgia, MS, IBS, Depression, Panic Attacks, Musculoskeletal, Back pain, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, OCD and more. Legal & General are a leading provider of Group Protection cover in the UK with over 80 years of expertise and knowledge. Our Group Income Protection, Workplace Recovery, has been very successful at reducing stress-related absence, partly due to its specialist early intervention. Where appropriate, Workplace Recovery offers up to 24 sessions of vocationally based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can help get stress claimants back to work.
Malcolm VandenBurg - BSc MBBS MISMA FCP FFPM FRCP www.malcolmvandenburg.co.uk Malcolm’s strength as a Doctor, Pharmaceutical Physician and Medico Legal Expert is based on the extent, scope and diversity of his clinical and research training and experience, and his commitment to his patients and clients. Patients benefit from his combination of analytical, academic, evidence based approach, combined with his holistic practice, while his clients benefit from his investigational methods, his attention to detail and his lateral thinking. Both benefit from his own extensive experiences and may benefit from his understanding of the commercial and entertainment environment.
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
New Frontiers Stress Management Clinic www.stressmanagementclinic.co.uk combines a mind and body approach to building stress resilience and performance optimisation. Our specialist clinics offer nutritional advice and coaching delivered by consultants with extensive corporate experience and Masters level qualifications. Our nutritional therapists address health and mental wellbeing conditions including; high blood pressure, depression, memory and low energy. Our business coaches provide stress-management coaching to build confidence, perform under pressure and fulfil potential.
Peppermint Giraffe www.peppermintgiraffe.co.uk The Peppermint Giraffe ethos is to provide a fresh and stretching approach to helping people get more out of life. Life coaching for those feeling lost and looking for clarity, motivation and balance. Courses and workshops on life/work balance, creativity and confidence. Hypnotherapy for anxiety, smoking cessation, weight loss, sports enhancement and insomnia. Speak to Nigel Wood MSc Occ. Psych. for a friendly, no-obligation chat about your stress-related needs. 07973 780 810 / 0845 25 REACH
Pinnacle Proactive www.pinnacleproactive.com Cost benefit analysis shows that investment in your workforce can not only help you to retain your staff, but it can also significantly improve their performance and productivity in the same way as investment in other areas of your business. The wellbeing of your business is directly linked to the wellbeing of your staff. We believe that taking a proactive approach to protecting and promoting the wellbeing of your staff makes strong business sense.
Press Pause for Stress www.presspause4stress.co.uk Today, we live in a world full of pressures. Pressures to perform, to be better than everybody else, deadlines, pressures to be on time, to be first, to get results!. These stresses come from a myriad of directions as well, our Parents, our teachers, our bosses, our partners, our selves! Some pressure is part of life and is not necessarily a bad thing: it is a normal response to danger - positive pressure provides the spur to achieve. But when pressure builds up stress arises. Stress is adverse to pressure, and long-term it can affect you physically, emotionally and spiritually, impacting on your wellbeing.
Synergy Training Group www.synergysuccess.co.uk Offer a range of Stress Related Training products and services. We are Specialists in Stress Management providing a comprehensive range of Bespoke, In Company Training, Coaching, Counseling and Consultancy services. We work in both Public and Private sectors in the UK, the Middle East, Asia and Worldwide. Depending on your needs we have dedicated department within Synergy Training.
TH Consultancy (www.thconsultancy.co.uk) is run by a Chartered Psychologist (HPC registered) and an associate Business Consultant (MBA) who have 25 years' experience working in the public and private sectors including the Retail industry, the Police, the Airline industry, the Media industry and the NHS. TH Consultancy provides consultancy, training and psychotherapeutic services that can enhance organisational performance and improve staff well-being. Specialist areas are stress management, resilience training and understanding and managing trauma. Based in Cheshire TH Consultancy undertakes work countrywide.
Tom Buckland www.mindmanagement.uk.com. Tom has been established in working with stress since 2003, and is qualified in Stress Management, Hypnotherapy and is also a NLP practitioner. He gives one-to-one support, stress coaching and workshops, and also currently carries out support through a national EAP company. Tom can be contacted on 07901522692 for any advice, support or coaching work around stress management.
Xanthis www.xanthis.ltd.uk Xanthis is the first online toolkit providing diagnostic questionnaires, information and skills for individuals and organisations. Our online system presents modules ranging from psychological skills to lifestyle and organisational issues, empowering and supporting the individual user or employee at work. Organisations can offer a confidential, proactive, continual service to all staff through their intranet. Module development is continuous with all content written by experts. Dr Stephen Mckeown, Past President of ISMA, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist and BUPA Advisor is a Company Director and heads the development team. Xanthis partners Premier Life Skills to offer a holistic and complete approach to stress.
Northern Ireland
Beth Gibb Associates www.bethgibbassociates.co.uk Beth Gibb Associates is a training and consultancy company based in Northern Ireland, with a preventative rather than curative remit of HEALTHY WORKFORCE, HEALTHY BUSINESS, by enhancing and promoting positive well being and personal development within your organisation
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
North West
Aspire www.aspirepod.com Aspire helps organisations and teams to identify and manage stress at work and enables individuals to develop more effective ways of coping with workplace stress. We do this through stress risk assessments, training in stress management and 1:1 coaching. If you want to reduce sickness absence, enhance well-being and improve performance please get in touch!
Brightspark www.brightsparktraining.net Brightspark provides consultancy and training support to organisations that recognise the benefits of promoting wellbeing in the workplace. We offer strategic support to design and implement effective wellbeing policies, training for managers so that they can competently and confidently contribute to wellbeing within teams and awareness workshops for employees to increase their resilience to stress. With specific experience of working with organisations to implement the HSE Management Standards on Stress, we ensure that your organisation will meet its statutory responsibilities. We also provide flexible support programmes for individuals to develop wellbeing and performance. We also provide individual stress management coaching, face to face, or by phone or web cam. Based in the East Midlands, we work across the UK.
Joan Corcoran www.joancorcoranstressmanagement.co.uk My Service aim is to enable individuals to enhance their coping strategies in order to manage more effectively the stressors in their lives. I have a specific interest in personal stress and the management of the physical symptoms of stress. I have worked as an occupational therapist within both the public and private sectors for over 35 years. I have a Master’s degree in Stress management and I am also a trained person-centred counsellor.
John Clark www.thewellnessconsultancynorthwest.co.uk John Clark is an experienced psychotherapist specialising in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder and other phobic and anxiety conditions resulting from motor vehicle accidents or any other accident or traumatic incident. The consultancy is based in the North West of England and operates throughout Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, West Yorkshire and Cheshire.
Legal & General are a leading provider of Group Protection cover in the UK with over 80 years of expertise and knowledge. Our Group Income Protection, Workplace Recovery, has been very successful at reducing stress-related absence, partly due to its specialist early intervention. Where appropriate, Workplace Recovery offers up to 24 sessions of vocationally based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can help get stress claimants back to work.
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
TH Consultancy (www.thconsultancy.co.uk) is run by a Chartered Psychologist (HPC registered) and an associate Business Consultant (MBA) who have 25 years' experience working in the public and private sectors including the Retail industry, the Police, the Airline industry, the Media industry and the NHS. TH Consultancy provides consultancy, training and psychotherapeutic services that can enhance organisational performance and improve staff well-being. Specialist areas are stress management, resilience training and understanding and managing trauma. Based in Cheshire TH Consultancy undertakes work countrywide.
Scotland
ABChoices Ltd www.abchoices.com Site Based in Aberdeenshire, ABChoices Ltd is run by ISMA Executive member Carolyn Taylor and is a member of the Stress Solutions Group, (www.stress-solutions-group.co.uk ). The company offers Stress Management, Coaching, Work/Life Balance and Counselling - to Business, Industry, Organisations and Individuals, both onshore and offshore throughout the UK.
Centre for Organisation Health www.orghealth.co.uk The Centre for Organisation Health was founded in response to the proven urgent need for primary prevention of workplace stress. Research into stress management indicates that whilst symptoms can be temporarily relieved, without transformation of workplace culture through delivery of effective manager behaviours, the stressed employee becomes demotivated, ineffective, takes sick leave and ultimately quits his employment. Our services, aimed at creating a resilient approach to stopping stress, include consultancy and assessment, in-house/public training courses, conflict resolution and mediation, use of psychology to reduce sickness and staff turnover, one to one support and counselling from SEO level down, annual employer support package.
Kathleen Young Stress Management in Edinburgh and West Lothian www.kystressmanagement.co.uk Confidential advice and treatment for stress related problems, including anger management, using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques, NLP & EFT. Legal & General are a leading provider of Group Protection cover in the UK with over 80 years of expertise and knowledge. Our Group Income Protection, Workplace Recovery, has been very successful at reducing stress-related absence, partly due to its specialist early intervention. Where appropriate, Workplace Recovery offers up to 24 sessions of vocationally based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can help get stress claimants back to work.
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
Stress Education Services www.stresstrain.co.uk www.stress-confidence.com Training company and sites run by Chartered Psychologist Alice Muir and Doctor Ken Hambly, both members of ISMA, and published authors on the subject. Accredited distance learning or face-to-face courses and coaching on stress, confidence building and related subjects. University Level courses on stress.tress 2000 offers Stress Audits, in-house workshops and distance learning courses.
Work-Life Solutions (www.the-stress-site.net) promotes evidence-based stress management through the organization and marketing of events. We organize free 'roadshows' to raise awareness of important stress management developments and research, and training for professionals, consultants and practitioners, including stress management train-the-trainer events. For stress management consultants, we provide business development support through advice, events, training and coaching.
The World of Health, www.stress-coach.co.uk & www.theworldofhealth.co.uk . Based in Lanarkshire, Eileen Burns provides a Stress Management and Therapy Service to Individuals and Organisations including Stress Busting Programmes, Self Development and Holistic Therapies for all ages. Eileen is a Reiki Master and Stress Adviser providing Coaching, Flower Essence Therapy, Indian Head Massage, and Reiki. Clients include local schools, North & South Lanarkshire Council, NHS Lanarkshire, Alzheimer Scotland & Routes to Work.
Your Stress Management www.yourstressmanagement.co.uk is based in Glasgow but can cover anywhere in the UK and offers a range of stress management services to organisations, charities, groups and individuals. Some of the services are stress awareness, stress in the workplace workshops for managers, staff and carers, wellbeing days, stress auditing, consultancy, on site support and one-to-one sessions.
South East
Alison Ashford is an experienced coach and facilitator specialising in stress management for businesses http://www.mindfulpeople.co.uk/and individuals http://www.mindfuljourney.co.uk/ Alison’s approach is personal, genuine and focused, drawing on an extensive range of methods for diagnosing, reducing and managing stress. These include mindfulness, cognitive behavioural coaching, NLP, biofeedback and psychometrics using MBTI and 16PF. Alison also draws on a strong corporate background in science, psychology, business management, change and HR. BSc(Hons), MBA.
BodyTalkSurrey www.bodytalksurrey.co.uk Consciousness based health care to heal your life. Quality of Life research shows a close correlation between happiness and health. Our state of BEING - to be true to our SELF - and do what is right for us will bring happiness and health. Gudrun Wiedemann offers individual sessions to those who wish to heal on a deep level, gain self insight, and let go of outdated beliefs and behaviours.
Centre for Optimum Wellbeing www.OptimumWellbeing.org.uk Irene Tubbs founded The Centre for Optimum Wellbeing to demonstrate how a personalised holistic approach to health can re-ignite the innate human trait of self-determination and ultimately survival.
Essentials for Health www.stressinwork.com When Gill Tree, the owner of Essentials for Health, became lost in the African jungle for five days on her own in 1989, she became fascinated by how the mind works during survival and pressure situations. Gill devised our stress management programme titled "Performing under Pressure" We’ve been teaching how to thrive in the concrete jungle, based on a very real experience of surviving the dangers of the African one since 1994.
Heys Stress and Wellbeing Management Ltd www.heysstressmanagement.co.uk: We enable individuals to identify and develop strategies to help them cope with the demands and pressures of modern day living; we help organisations to provide effective and robust stress and wellbeing management strategies, based on the HSE Management Standards approach, adapted to the organisation’s needs; we believe that by reducing stress and increasing wellbeing, everyone can be helped to achieve their full potential in their personal and work lives.
How to Heal with Keira Henry. www.howtoheal.co.uk How to Heal is a recovery programme for healing from various conditions which are exacerbated by stress. It is based on the science of psycho-neuro-immunology (mind-body science) which focuses on how stress can cause chronic conditions to develop / continue. Through various tools and techniques which reduce stress in the body and change habits, the body can regain balance and you can finally heal. Conditions we work with include ME / CFS, PVFS, Fibromyalgia, MS, IBS, Depression, Panic Attacks, Musculoskeletal, Back pain, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, OCD and more.
Laurel Alexander www.laurelalexander.co.uk Laurel Alexander is a published author, complementary therapist and coach based in Brighton, Sussex. She offers therapeutic treatments including reflexology and nutritional therapy, Laurel also offers coaching for stress management, career and work-related issues, weight management, creative pregnancy and wellness. She is the Director of Studies and key tutor for Wellness for Life and offers health-related and coaching courses (vocational, CPD and general interest). Laurel works as a freelance writer and has had numerous works published on health, business and career-related subjects. Legal & General are a leading provider of Group Protection cover in the UK with over 80 years of expertise and knowledge. Our Group Income Protection, Workplace Recovery, has been very successful at reducing stress-related absence, partly due to its specialist early intervention. Where appropriate, Workplace Recovery offers up to 24 sessions of vocationally based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can help get stress claimants back to work.
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
Managing Pressure www.managingpressure.com Managing Pressure supports organisations and individuals to handle pressure situations to prevent stress becoming a problem. We offer a range of stress support services and solutions. Whether you want something for groups, such as stress management training courses, or specific stress support for individuals managing stress at work we can help. We also have a range of diagnostics suitable for individuals and organisations. We work with organisations of all sizes and both in the UK and internationally.
Melanie Phelps www.positive-change.net Based in Camberley Surrey. (Surrey, Hants, Berks borders), I am a Chartered Counselling Psychologist & Registered Hypnotherapist and have been in practice since 2001. I offer one to one: stress management, assertiveness training, anger management, hypotherapy and self hypnosis. Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, guided imagery, visualisation, autogenics & biofeedback techniques with clients, I also offer short talks / workshops for groups on managing stress.
Mpowerme: www.mpowerme.co.uk Mpowerme focusses on the health and wellbeing agenda with stress, depression, mental health, ill health, staff absenteeism, self worth and as always, those issues around communication and relationships being addressed. We provide transformational coaching and training to support people. We work with people on a 1-1, in groups and also into organisations to proactively work on the health and wellebing agenda and address employee issues.
Minutes a Day www.minutesaday.com "Minutes a Day - To Improve Your Life" are a range of simple techniques, that take just minutes a day to apply, but have significant benefits to improve your life. Minutes a Day has been providing training workshops to the public and private sectors across the UK, and Internationally, since 1996. Workshops are arranged around the clients' needs, and can last as little as 30 minutes, or be provided across as many days as required. Group sizes typically range from 1 to 250 participants, in a range of locations both indoor and out. Jason already appears as a guest speaker with various events and functions internationally, on radio and TV, and could be available for your event. Free taster workshops are also available through the main website.
New Frontiers Stress Management Clinic www.stressmanagementclinic.co.uk combines a mind and body approach to building stress resilience and performance optimisation. Our specialist clinics offer nutritional advice and coaching delivered by consultants with extensive corporate experience and Masters level qualifications. Our nutritional therapists address health and mental wellbeing conditions including; high blood pressure, depression, memory and low energy. Our business coaches provide stress-management coaching to build confidence, perform under pressure and fulfil potential.
Press Pause for Stress www.presspause4stress.co.uk Today, we live in a world full of pressures. Pressures to perform, to be better than everybody else, deadlines, pressures to be on time, to be first, to get results!. These stresses come from a myriad of directions as well, our Parents, our teachers, our bosses, our partners, our selves! Some pressure is part of life and is not necessarily a bad thing: it is a normal response to danger - positive pressure provides the spur to achieve. But when pressure builds up stress arises. Stress is adverse to pressure, and long-term it can affect you physically, emotionally and spiritually, impacting on your wellbeing.
QDM Limited www.qdm.eu.com specialises in Critical Incident Stress Management, with a particular expertise within aviation related organisations. We also provide Stress Management and Wellbeing training courses to organisations, customised to suit the learning and development needs of each group we are working with, for the best educational outcome. Training is tailored to reflect the realities of the workplace and to address the particular issues that the client wants to cover.
Randox Health Checks www.randoxhealthchecks.com/uk Randox Health Checks is a pioneering new movement in preventative healthcare. Using cutting-edge biochip technology, Randox Health Checks offers the world’s most comprehensive health screening and can detect early biomarkers for a range of diseases and conditions before symptoms occur. Randox Health Checks has developed and patented a clinically proven stress test, which for the first time ever, enables specific stress biomarkers, known as cytokines, to be detected and measured in the blood stream. This helps to remove subjectivity around the issue of stress as it allows stress levels to be measured and monitored over time, as intervention programmes are applied. Randox’ stress test adds evidence-based substance to the issue of workplace mental health and absence through stress, giving employers clinical robustness for their wellness strategies.
Solutions 4 Stress www.solutions4stress.co.uk We are a Stress Management Training Consultancy providing a comprehensive range of bespoke in-house training workshops & confidential individual consultancy services. We passionately believe that to achieve a healthy organisation or business, an enthusiastic workforce that is resilient to the stresses & pressures of life, both at work & home, is essential.
Stress Management Plus Ltd www.stressmanagementplus.com Stress Management Plus is a stress management consultancy and coaching service for businesses and individuals. In a business context, we examine how stress is impacting on staff, and performance, and develop ways of improving the situation, and business performance. As an individual, whether you’re stressed at home, at work, or both, we help clients to learn new ways of thinking about and approaching situations, so that they can achieve more positive results, or improve a specific situation in their lives and achieve specific goals.
The STP Consultancy www.thestpconsultancy.co.uk Jenny Gould (MISMA,MAC,MIHPE) specialises in stress management consultancy, training and coaching. She advises on strategy, offers stress management workshops, seminars and individual stress coaching, as well as training in related areas such as conflict management, anger management, assertiveness, and relaxation. The STP Consultancy is based in Oxfordshire, working with companies and organisations large and small.
The Sussex Stress Consultancy www.sussexstressconsultancy.co.uk We provide high quality stress management services at sensible affordable prices. We have achieved considerable success by offering a personal service that is aimed at working closely with our clients and understanding their needs and aspirations. We have a practical approach with solutions to your training requirements and can provide training to individuals with stress related problems or to companies that are experiencing difficulties with work- place stress. Our aim is to promote a positive approach to managing stress.
Tom Buckland www.mindmanagement.uk.com. Tom has been established in working with stress since 2003, and is qualified in Stress Management, Hypnotherapy and is also a NLP practitioner. He gives one-to-one support, stress coaching and workshops, and also currently carries out support through a national EAP company. Tom can be contacted on 07901522692 for any advice, support or coaching work around stress management.
South West
Breathing Space Personal Growth Ltd www.breathing-space.biz offers courses & personal coaching to individuals and organisations. Programmes cover relaxation, change and stress management, performance anxiety, life and career review, creativity and life balance.
Centre for Organisation Health www.orghealth.co.uk The Centre for Organisation Health was founded in response to the proven urgent need for primary prevention of workplace stress. Research into stress management indicates that whilst symptoms can be temporarily relieved, without transformation of workplace culture through delivery of effective manager behaviours, the stressed employee becomes demotivated, ineffective, takes sick leave and ultimately quits his employment. Our services, aimed at creating a resilient approach to stopping stress, include consultancy and assessment, in-house/public training courses, conflict resolution and mediation, use of psychology to reduce sickness and staff turnover, one to one support and counselling from SEO level down, annual employer support package.
Chris and Elizabeth Clarke. www.candeclarke.co.uk Providing Stress Management services to individuals and Stress Management training for organisations. CNHC registered Hypnotherapists, NLP, EFT and EMDR practitioners.
Legal & General are a leading provider of Group Protection cover in the UK with over 80 years of expertise and knowledge. Our Group Income Protection, Workplace Recovery, has been very successful at reducing stress-related absence, partly due to its specialist early intervention. Where appropriate, Workplace Recovery offers up to 24 sessions of vocationally based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can help get stress claimants back to work.
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
Press Pause for Stress www.presspause4stress.co.uk Today, we live in a world full of pressures. Pressures to perform, to be better than everybody else, deadlines, pressures to be on time, to be first, to get results!. These stresses come from a myriad of directions as well, our Parents, our teachers, our bosses, our partners, our selves! Some pressure is part of life and is not necessarily a bad thing: it is a normal response to danger - positive pressure provides the spur to achieve. But when pressure builds up stress arises. Stress is adverse to pressure, and long-term it can affect you physically, emotionally and spiritually, impacting on your wellbeing.
Premier Life Skills www.premierlifeskills.ltd.uk Premier Life Skills Ltd (lead trainer is Jane Thomas) is a stress management training company running a range of public and in-house programmes designed specifically to tackle the issues of stress in the workplace and to support the work of stress professionals working on a one to one basis with clients. Courses include; The Diploma in Stress Management; Measuring and Managing Stress; The Changing World of Stress; Tackling Stress for Managers and Wellbeing Training for Staff. It is the only stress training company offering Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR) accredited training courses in Stress Management and won a National Training Award for its programme in 2005.
Stride Forward www.strideforward.co.uk Find a new you, balanced, calm and performing. Colin Stride/ Stride Forward provides individual one to one stress management and nlp coaching and talks on stress awareness and coping strategies to groups and businesses.
Wellbeing4U www.wellbeing4u.co.uk Gives details of courses run by Derek Webster he specialises in individual help for stress related and other disorders, including the use of biofeedback, plus workshops and home study courses for Optimum Wellbeing.
Wales
Centre for Organisation Health www.orghealth.co.uk The Centre for Organisation Health was founded in response to the proven urgent need for primary prevention of workplace stress. Research into stress management indicates that whilst symptoms can be temporarily relieved, without transformation of workplace culture through delivery of effective manager behaviours, the stressed employee becomes demotivated, ineffective, takes sick leave and ultimately quits his employment. Our services, aimed at creating a resilient approach to stopping stress, include consultancy and assessment, in-house/public training courses, conflict resolution and mediation, use of psychology to reduce sickness and staff turnover, one to one support and counselling from SEO level down, annual employer support package.
from Stress to Success www.fromstresstosuccess.co.uk is based just outside Cardiff and has provided high quality stress management training for more than 600 schools, hospitals and corporate clients throughout the UK since 2,000. Run by Jonathan Bockelmann-Evans, from Stress to Success has transformed the stereotypical image of ‘Stress Management Training’ from being tedious, tick-box, CPD fodder into an exciting, educational and empowering format that leaves even the most jaded delegate feeling confident about coping with stress.
Call 029 2070 5957 for more details.
LifeCraft www.lifecraft.co.uk; a wellbeing and management consultancy specialising in training, facilitation and coaching to improve workplace wellbeing. Predominantly working with managers to develop confidence, competence and proactive approaches to stress and wellbeing management; LifeCraft uses a variety of tools and techniques depending on organisational need. These include implementing the HSE Stress Management Standards and delivering the ‘Award in Health and Wellbeing Management’ a unique training programme endorsed by ILM. Legal & General are a leading provider of Group Protection cover in the UK with over 80 years of expertise and knowledge. Our Group Income Protection, Workplace Recovery, has been very successful at reducing stress-related absence, partly due to its specialist early intervention. Where appropriate, Workplace Recovery offers up to 24 sessions of vocationally based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can help get stress claimants back to work.
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
The Haven www.thehavencounselling.co.uk The Haven was established by Wendy Price, a fully qualified Counsellor in 2005 offering a Counselling Service. All our Counsellors are trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy which has been proven to be successful when working with problems such as Stress, Depression and Anxiety. Wendy works predominantly in the corporate field delivering counselling to employees, stress management training working with the HSE Management Standards. We also deliver courses in Bereavement Training for workers in the Care industry. Counselling Skills for Managers, Assertiveness and Time Management Courses.
Tracy Pike www.cycaonline.org has worked in the personal development field for 30 years. Tracy developed Look After Yourself classes in the community in 1987 and trained as a trainer with the OU in Handling Stress. Working with people from the Health and Education sector as well as local and national businesses, she has contributed to television and radio research and was the first practitioner to offer stress management on prescription as part of the pilot GP referral scheme in Carmarthenshire. Tracy has also written training materials in life skills and parenting.
West Midlands
AUM Corporate Consultancy: www.aumcorporateconsultancy.co.uk. We enable people, employees and organisations to overcome challenges and reach their peak potential using easy and practical approaches . We offer one to one support through Counselling, Coaching and Stress Relief and Group Training Programmes such as Resilience Building, Stress Management, Anger Management, Team Building, Change Management and Leadership Skills. Contact us for bespoke interventions on all aspects of Personal., Manager and Organisational development. Free Initial Consultation.
Embodied Living: www.embodiedliving.co.uk Embodied Living offers stress management, mental toughness (resilience) and peak performance training and coaching. We offer simple and effective coaching programmes and training courses for Mental Toughness and Mental Toughness Development. Run by Susan Tupling a stress management practitioner and coach who has worked on the executive committee of ISMA. She is also a yoga teacher, specialising in yoga for therapeutic treatment of stress, anxiety and depression, and a Master Practitioner/trainer of NLP.
Getting You There: www.gettingyouthere.co.uk Offering a tailored approach to stress management for individuals and for companies wishing to support their staff’s well-being. Using a combination of techniques from coaching, hypnotherapy and NLP, Getting You There’s stress management services are tailored to your requirements and preferences. You are invited to get in touch to discover how you or your employees could benefit from this approach to stress management. Based in Barwell (Leics) and Coventry.
Indepth Training and Consultancy www.indepthtrainingandconsultancy.com At Indepth we believe that when individuals are given the right support and environmental conditions they are able to achieve their potential. We offer a relaxed, safe environment with an appropriate level of challenge to assist both individuals and groups in their future development.
Kemp Consulting www.johnkemptraining.co.uk More than ever before, the health of an organisation depends on the abilities of its people to perform under pressure. John Kemp ensures organisations from public and private sectors maximise the physical and emotional resilience of their staff. As a National Public Speaking Champion, John delivers all aspects of Stress Management Training (OCR Dip. Stress Management) and is available for Conference events. Legal & General are a leading provider of Group Protection cover in the UK with over 80 years of expertise and knowledge. Our Group Income Protection, Workplace Recovery, has been very successful at reducing stress-related absence, partly due to its specialist early intervention. Where appropriate, Workplace Recovery offers up to 24 sessions of vocationally based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can help get stress claimants back to work.
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
Synergy Training Group www.synergysuccess.co.uk Offer a range of Stress Related Training products and services. We are Specialists in Stress Management providing a comprehensive range of Bespoke, In Company Training, Coaching, Counseling and Consultancy services. We work in both Public and Private sectors in the UK, the Middle East, Asia and Worldwide. Depending on your needs we have dedicated department within Synergy Training.
Workable Management Solutions Ltd (www.workablemanagement.co.uk) has over 30 years experience in dealing with human resources and health and safety management issues. We provide a bespoke package of compliance with the HSE’s stress management standards by working with employers, employees (and their representatives) and occupational health professionals to deliver effective policies, procedures and training in managing stress in the workplace. We have worked in the public and private sector and specialise in working with small to medium enterprises.
Yorkshire
Academy of Clinical & Medical Hypnosis Ltd www.ukhypnotherapy.org Based in Derbyshire and London. ACMH offers a range of accredited training courses in hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, NLP and stress management. Additionally, ACMH offers bespoke stress management training and employee assistance programmes and runs ‘Coaching for Success’ programmes aimed at sixth form pupils planning a University degree course.
Brightspark www.brightsparktraining.net Brightspark provides consultancy and training support to organisations that recognise the benefits of promoting wellbeing in the workplace. We offer strategic support to design and implement effective wellbeing policies, training for managers so that they can competently and confidently contribute to wellbeing within teams and awareness workshops for employees to increase their resilience to stress. With specific experience of working with organisations to implement the HSE Management Standards on Stress, we ensure that your organisation will meet its statutory responsibilities. We also provide flexible support programmes for individuals to develop wellbeing and performance. We also provide individual stress management coaching, face to face, or by phone or web cam. Based in the East Midlands, we work across the UK.
HealthCV www.healthcv.com This site provides details of how HealthCV delivers practical on-site solutions aimed at creating healthier and happier workplaces. These include wellbeing programmes, diagnostic tools, stress management courses, and employee assistance programmes.
John Clark www.thewellnessconsultancynorthwest.co.uk John Clark is an experienced psychotherapist specialising in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder and other phobic and anxiety conditions resulting from motor vehicle accidents or any other accident or traumatic incident. The consultancy is based in the North West of England and operates throughout Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, West Yorkshire and Cheshire. Legal & General are a leading provider of Group Protection cover in the UK with over 80 years of expertise and knowledge. Our Group Income Protection, Workplace Recovery, has been very successful at reducing stress-related absence, partly due to its specialist early intervention. Where appropriate, Workplace Recovery offers up to 24 sessions of vocationally based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can help get stress claimants back to work.
The Management Advisory Service, www.mas.org.uk, lead by Professor Derek Mowbray, provides training, coaching and consultancy services that transform corporate culture, enhance staff resilience, wellbeing and performance, and prevent work related stress. This in turn cuts the costs of sickness absence and presenteeism, and improves organisational performance. Based in Gloucestershire but we work throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
MR Dynamics Ltd www.mrdynamics.com MRD bring results for people and teams. We work to ensure that managers are the antidote and not the cause of work related stress. With a focus on the importance of personality preference in Stress Reduction, MRD offer a number of assessments, surveys, coaching and flexible training programmes, including Insights Discovery®, to partner with clients to reduce the costs of work related stress.
StressCheck Training are specialists in identifying and reducing stress in the workplace, and with a wide range of
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