Want to Know More About EAP?

Employee assistance counseling is brief and solution-focused. If you are covered by an EAP, you may have from 1-8 sessions that would not cost you anything. It might be a good idea for you to call your company to check on whether you have an EAP benefit that includes counseling sessions, and if so, who the EAP provider is. The EAP that your company contracts with can assist you with referrals to in-network counselors. I may or may not be in-network with your specific company’s EAP. If you are interested in working with me as your counselor, you could ask them if I am a contracted provider with your EAP. Prior to making an appointment with any EAP counselor, it is important that you contact your company to obtain an authorization number for EAP sessions.

Some of the problems that EAP counseling often addresses include:
•           Life adjustments and transitions
•           Relocation and moving stress
•           Job loss
•           Parenting challenges- including single, blended and military families
•           Emancipation of adult children living at home
•           Marital/couples/partner relationships
•           Unplanned pregnancies
•           Grief and loss
•           Financial stress
•           Family members with serious mental or physical illnesses
•           Crisis situations that do not involve risk of harm to yourself or others
•           Work-live challenges
•           Elder care issues
•           Substance abuse or dependence
•           Critical incidents related to the work place- deaths, bank robberies, accidents, etc.

EAP is a resource for brief counseling. It is not for medical services. If employees or their family members are in need of seeing a psychiatrist for medication evaluation and management, they need to contact their medical health plan.  An EAP counselor does not provide clinical diagnoses, psychiatric testing, psychological assessment or school related assessments. These services are beyond the scope of services provided by the employee assistance program and would be needed to be prior authorized by your insurance company.

Contact Information

Nancy Duffey Black, MS, LICSW
Duffey Black Consulting, LLC
Specializing in Critical Incident Response Services
Madison Lake, MN 56063
(763) 443-3348 (P)
Nan@DuffeyBlack.com

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