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We pride ourselves on providing our clients with new knowledge from research. We use our articles, media coverage and newsletters to lead the wellbeing conversation in New Zealand.
Why does psychological therapy take time?
Last month, we examined what psychological therapy is and how it can help people make positive change: http://umbrella.org.nz/what-is-psychological-therapy/ We are often asked - how many sessions will my employee need? This is definitely one of [...]
Shifting the frantic
Too much to do Not enough time Feeling frantic/overwhelmed Feeling I’m not doing anything properly How many of these comments above resonate with you? It’s a dilemma that we are hearing more often, and [...]
Reducing your emotion drain on the job
Do you work in a customer-facing role? Does your job require that you keep your emotions in check? Do you feel emotionally exhausted at the end of the day or your shift? If so, then [...]
What is psychological therapy?
There are lots of wacky movie images of “therapy”, such as psychoanalysts from Freud’s time talking to people lying on couches, or clients and therapists running off into the sunset together (breaking all rules [...]
Preventing vicarious trauma
We recently posted an article about the impact of emotional labour at work – the cost of keeping your “game face” on when the emotion drain at work may be high: http://umbrella.org.nz/faking-it-on-the-job-the-cost-of-emotional-labour/ Soon after, the [...]
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Put it into practice
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