My employer's website has a page claiming they offer free staff counselling through an external service. You phone a freephone number and are 'triaged' to assess what kind of support you need. It then just says that telephone counselling consists of 30 minute sessions by phone, to which there is unlimited access on an ad-hoc basis.'
Then it says that face-to-face counselling may be offered as well, and the first session would take place within 5 days if suitable.
Soooo, after months of trying to ignore my problems with anger, irritability and just generally being shite to my children at times (because it's intermittent), I finally plucked up the courage to call. Poured my heart out to triage woman in tears. She ummed and ahhhed for a bit and then told me I would benefit from sustained, consistent sessions with a trained counsellor and gave me three different web addresses of counsellor directories I could go and look at. That was it. And of course these ones are all £40/hour a pop. I could cry, but I was just a bit stunned at the time and didn't question what she said. But now I'm angry at how misleading the so-called 'free staff counselling' turned out to be!!
Yes I know I should speak to GP but I feel back to square one. 