Stress Management Training and workplace wellbeing
When your people are well, your organisation thrives.
Practical, evidence-based workplace wellbeing support, from stress management and resilience training to mindfulness programmes and ongoing employee wellbeing. Delivered in person or online, tailored to your organisation.
Transform workplace stress into resilience.
The scale of workplace stress is hard to ignore, with 91% of adults having experienced high pressure or stress at some point in the past year, and the cost to employers now exceeding £51 billion a year. The evidence on what works is equally compelling, with every £1 invested in workplace mental health support returning on average £4.70 in reduced absence, turnover and lost productivity.
Sustainable performance isn’t just about reducing stress. It’s about giving your people real psychological skills that build focus, confidence, and resilience that last well beyond the next deadline.
When your team feels genuinely supported, the results show up across the whole organisation. You see it in retention, in performance, in the quality of communication, and in a culture where your best people choose to stay.
by the numbers
Stress in the workplace
Behind every one of these figures is a person struggling to keep up, a team running on empty, and an organisation quietly losing good people.
Workplace stress rarely stays contained. It ripples outward through teams, affects performance and decision-making, drives absence, and chips away at the kind of culture that takes years to build.
Supporting your people’s psychological well-being is not a nice-to-have. It is the foundation for sustainable performance, and it starts with giving them the right skills and understanding to manage pressure before it manages them.
People suffering from work related stress, depression or anxiety (new or long-standing) in 2024/25
People suffering from a new case of work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2024/25
Working days lost due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2024/25
of people feel stressed at least once a month
of adults in the UK experienced high pressure or stress at some point over the past year
of UK adults say lack of sleep is a cause of their stress
Data from Work-related stress, depression or anxiety statistics in Great Britain, Annual statistics, HSE, Published 20 November 2025. Ciphr’s 2024 survey, Deloitte 2024, and Mental Health UK’s Burnout Report 2025.
Tailored support for your organisation
- Delivered in-person, virtually, or as a hybrid to suit your organisation.
- Flexible from 90-minute sessions through to full-day training and ongoing programmes
- Every programme begins with an in-depth consultation to understand your specific needs, culture and goals.
- Bespoke programmes developed around your organisation's challenges and schedule.
- Evaluation to measure participant outcomes.
- Supporting resources and follow-up included as standard.
- Your Mind Works for Teams app.
Lucy Mundy
MSc, BSc (Hons) Psychology, HDipCBH, DipSMRB, GMBPsS, MNCIP (reg)
expertise in workplace wellbeing
Why work with me?
With a Master’s in Health Psychology, a Diploma in Stress Management and Resilience Building accredited by the ISMA (International Stress Management Association UK), and over 25 years working across psychology, therapy and coaching, I bring both the academic grounding and real-world experience to my work. I have delivered training and well-being support across corporate, NHS, education and public sector organisations.
Every programme draws on evidence-based frameworks including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness research. These are not generic wellness approaches but methodologies with a strong research base behind them and a track record in real-world settings, which means training that gives your people skills they can actually use.
Workplace pressures are not abstract. Your team are juggling deadlines, difficult conversations, competing demands and the weight of their own expectations every single day. Everything here is designed with that reality in mind, grounded in actual human experience rather than theoretical scenarios.
Benefits for your organisation
Reduced Absence and Turnover
When people have the psychological tools to manage pressure effectively, they are less likely to need time off for stress or burnout-related reasons, and more likely to stay with organisations that actively invest in their wellbeing.
Increased Productivity
Chronic pressure affects far more than mood. It erodes cognitive function, decision-making and creativity. When your people feel well, they think more clearly, perform more consistently and bring better energy to their work.
Stronger Team Dynamics
Psychological wellbeing is not just individual. When people feel supported and regulated, they communicate better, handle conflict more constructively, and create a culture where others can do the same.
Competitive Advantage
In a tight talent market, meaningful investment in employee well-being is a real differentiator that attracts strong candidates and gives your best people a reason to stay.
POSITIVE CULTURE BY DESIGN
Wellbeing that is properly embedded in an organisation shapes everything. When people feel invested in and supported, it changes how teams communicate, how challenges are handled, and how the organisation feels to work in every single day.
How your people benefit
supporting individuals with
Practical Skills That Work
Evidence-based techniques drawn from CBT, ACT and mindfulness, designed to give your people practical tools they can use immediately, not just ideas that sound good in a workshop.
effective coping skills
Problem-solving and worry management techniques that help people respond to overwhelming situations with more clarity, rather than being consumed by them.
Emotional Resilience
Drawing on a range of evidence-based psychological techniques, your people develop the internal resources to face setbacks and recover from them, rather than being knocked off course when pressure builds.
Communication Confidence
Assertiveness, boundary-setting and effective communication under pressure. The skills that take the dread out of difficult conversations and make working relationships stronger.
Better Sleep and Energy
With 41% of UK adults citing lack of sleep as a cause of their stress, poor rest sits at the root of workplace fatigue and poor decision-making. The sleep workshop addresses this directly and practically.
Enhanced Focus and clarity
Practical, evidence-based techniques to strengthen focus, helping your team stay clear-headed during high-pressure periods and reduce the costly errors that come with a scattered mind.
Your Mind Works
Stress & Wellbeing workshops
Each workshop can be delivered as a standalone session or combined into one of our comprehensive programmes.
1. Understanding Stress
A foundational session exploring the science of stress and wellbeing, helping participants identify their personal stress patterns and understand the difference between helpful and unhelpful responses to pressure. Building this understanding gives your team a stronger basis for recognising when pressure is becoming a problem, before it does.
2. Relax + Breathe
Practical techniques for immediate stress relief, drawing on evidence-based breathing exercises and progressive relaxation methods. Participants leave with tools they can draw on quickly to regain a sense of calm and clarity in high-pressure moments.
3. Coping Skills
Building a personalised toolkit of healthy coping strategies that work in real workplace situations. Each participant explores approaches that suit how they think and work, giving them more options when pressure builds.
4. Values + Beliefs
Exploring how personal values and thought patterns shape stress responses, with practical cognitive restructuring techniques. When people can align their daily actions with what truly matters to them, internal conflict reduces, and a stronger sense of purpose tends to follow.
5. Problem Solving + Worry
Systematic approaches to breaking down overwhelming problems and managing unproductive worry cycles. Participants develop practical techniques for moving from circular, unhelpful thinking to clearer, more focused problem-solving.
6. Introduction to Mindfulness
Practical mindfulness for busy professionals, covering brief techniques that can actually be used during the workday. No meditation cushions required. These are real-world approaches that fit into busy schedules and support a greater sense of calm and focus over time.
7. Assertiveness + Communication
Building confidence in workplace communication, including setting boundaries and managing difficult conversations. Participants develop practical skills for expressing themselves clearly and directly, supporting healthier working relationships and reducing interpersonal friction.
8. Mindful Self-Compassion
Developing a healthier relationship with mistakes and setbacks by working with the self-criticism that tends to amplify stress. Particularly relevant for perfectionists and high-achievers, this session explores how self-compassion supports steadier performance and greater psychological resilience.
9. Improving Your Sleep
Evidence-based strategies for better sleep quality, addressing one of the most common and underestimated contributors to workplace stress. Poor sleep affects mood, concentration and decision-making in ways that accumulate over time, and this session gives participants practical approaches to improving it.
10. Happiness at Work
Exploring positive psychology principles to build real satisfaction and engagement at work, including approaches to finding meaning in daily tasks and developing a more optimistic outlook. A session grounded in the evidence that well-being and performance are not in competition.
workplace stress management training
WAYS TO SUPPORT YOUR TEAMS
From a single workshop to an ongoing partnership. Find the right fit for your organisation.
WORKPLACE WELLBEING WORKSHOPS
wellbeing WORKSHOPS
Whether you need a focused one-off session or a series of workshops built around your team’s specific pressures, this is a practical and flexible starting point. Sessions draw on evidence-based approaches from CBT, ACT and mindfulness, designed to give your people skills they can use immediately rather than ideas that fade after the debrief. Available as standalone 90-minute to half-day sessions, or combined into a full training day, online or in person. Participants receive pre and post-workshop assessments and all supporting materials.
WORKPLACE WELLBEING PROGRAMMES
full PROGRAMMES
For organisations ready to make a sustained investment in their people, the full programmes bring together multi-week psychology workshops with practical skills training, creating change that shows up across performance, retention and culture. Topics span stress and resilience, sleep, communication, problem-solving and positive psychology, with every programme built around your organisation’s specific needs. Programmes run from four to eight weeks, with comprehensive assessments, all participant materials, follow-up support and individual access to the Your Mind Works app included throughout. Available online or in person, designed to fit your schedule.
LEADERSHIP WELL-BEING
for LEADERS
Leadership carries a different kind of pressure. Not just managing your own stress, but being responsible for the wellbeing of the people around you, and needing to do both well. These sessions are designed specifically for that reality, covering wellbeing for high-performers, communication under pressure, recognising stress signals in others, and building environments where people feel safe to perform. Groups are kept to a maximum of six participants for a truly personal experience, with premium retreat-style days also available at luxury venues for senior teams.
add-on optional
1:1 COACHING
For individuals who want to go deeper alongside the group work, or senior leaders who would benefit from confidential one-to-one support. Sessions focus on the specific challenges and goals of the individual, complementing and extending the work done in the group setting.
60-minute sessions with packages available for those committing to ongoing work.
your mind works app
WELLBEING on demand
Your workshop participants don’t leave with a handout. They leave with access to the Your Mind Works app, a dedicated space where all their resources, tools and course materials live, accessible any time, from any device.
Organisations can also buy team access to The Membership, giving their people ongoing support and well-being content between sessions and beyond. For SMEs looking for meaningful employee support without the cost of a traditional EAP, it is a truly personal alternative.
- Team Programme Space: Workshop resources and course materials delivered directly into your team's private programme area, not handed out on paper and forgotten.
- Psychology Tools and Practices: An evidence-based library drawn from CBT, ACT and mindfulness, available whenever your people need it.
- Mindfulness and Relaxation Library: Guided exercises, meditations and breathing techniques for use during the workday or at home.
- Guided Journal and Progress Tracking: Prompts to support reflection and build self-awareness, with individual progress tracking to build momentum.
- Scheduling and Notifications: Gentle reminders to support consistent practice and sustained engagement.
- Specialist Programmes: Option to add on our in-depth specialist self-led courses or your own bespoke team programmes.
Our web-based app means you can easily access on any device with no app store download.
Additional resources, audios and more.
Schedule practices and exercises in your calendar
Your Personal Client Space
Join me for live group sessions
Library full of resources, mind tools, practices and audios.
Your Mind Works web-based app is available on your Apple and Android devices, or easily accessed on your browser and even on your TV.
frequently asked questions
Stress management training is a structured programme that gives employees practical psychological tools to recognise, understand and respond to workplace stress more effectively. Rather than simply raising awareness, effective training builds skills that participants can apply immediately – from managing pressure and improving focus to developing longer-term resilience.
An Employee Assistance Programme typically provides reactive support – a helpline or counselling sessions when someone is already struggling. Stress management training is proactive. It builds skills across your whole team before problems escalate, which means fewer people needing the EAP in the first place. The two work well together.
That depends entirely on what your organisation needs. A single standalone workshop runs 90 minutes to half a day. A full programme typically runs across several weeks. Everything is scoped during an initial consultation so you get something that genuinely fits your team’s schedule and challenges.
Yes. All programmes can be delivered fully online via video call, in person at your organisation’s premises, or as a hybrid of both. Online delivery works particularly well for remote or hybrid teams, and the quality of the training is consistent across both formats
From small teams to larger organisations. Programmes are fully bespoke so the content and format are scaled to suit your team’s size and specific needs. The Your Mind Works app also gives SMEs a cost-effective way to provide ongoing wellbeing support between sessions.
Every programme includes evidence-based pre and post evaluation to measure participant outcomes. This gives you tangible data on the difference the training has made, which is useful both for internal reporting and for demonstrating return on investment to stakeholders.
I’m based in North Warwickshire, near Tamworth, Burton upon Trent, and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and I regularly deliver in-person training across the Midlands and beyond. Online delivery means I work with organisations across the UK and internationally. Get in touch to discuss your location and I’ll let you know what’s possible.
All training is designed and delivered by Lucy Mundy, psychologist, qualified therapist and coach with an MSc in Health Psychology, a Diploma in Stress Management and Resilience Building accredited by the ISMA (International Stress Management Association UK), and over 25 years working across psychology, therapy and coaching. I have delivered wellbeing training across corporate, NHS and education settings.
Let's talk about your team.
Every organisation is different, and so is every team. Whether you are thinking about a one-off workshop or a longer-term programme, the best starting point is a conversation about what you actually need. Fill in the form below and we will be in touch to arrange a free consultation.