Clinical perspective on workplace mental health, from the CorpCARE team.
"Talk to someone" is the default message of workplace mental health, and it's a good one - reaching out is the hardest step, and normalizing it saves lives. But "talk to someone" is where support should start, not where…
Nearly every client you serve has an EAP, and most believe it covers their mental health needs. Your opportunity as an advisor is to help them see - without knocking a product that genuinely helps many people - where…
The worker who shows up but can't perform costs more than the one who stays home. On a line or a site, presenteeism from untreated mental illness is a large, invisible tax.
In a benefits market where most brokers offer near-identical carrier products and the same wellness add-ons, differentiation is hard to come by. Clinical mental health care is one of the few genuinely distinguishing…
The workplace mental health market is crowded with words that sound similar and mean very different things. Coaching, counselling, therapy, care - vendors use them almost interchangeably, and HR leaders are left…
Alberta's energy sector powers the province's economy - and carries a mental health burden that too often goes unspoken. Long rotations, remote sites, safety-critical work, boom-and-bust cycles, and a culture that…
When an employee goes on leave for a mental health condition, the clock starts - on their recovery and on your disability cost. What determines how long that clock runs isn't luck. It's how quickly and how well they're…
For years, employers bought mental health support the way they bought office supplies - one standard package for everyone. An EAP, an app, some paramedical coverage, applied uniformly across a whole workforce. That…