What is an EAP or Employee Assistance Program?
Your company may have what is called an Employee Assistance Program or EAP. If you do have this, there will be an 800 number that you can access through your company. Your company pays a separate company to give you, the employee, spouse or children, free sessions to see a counselor. You would call the 800 number and the EAP will give you several names of therapists for you to see. They will give you our phone number and we will set up an appointment for you. You then need to call the 800 number back with the name of the therapist that you actually got set up with and then the EAP will send our office paperwork with the therapist’s name that you will see, along with authorization to see them. EAP is set up to assess and refer. This simply means that if you were given, for instance, five sessions, you would see your therapist for the first session and your therapist would determine if your particular situation could be resolved in the five sessions (or however many you were given). If i
