Workplace Mental Health
Made Easy.
Why Head Strong Workplaces?
Because work shouldn't make your head hurt.
In fact, when work, um, works, it can protect your mental health and even improve it.
That’s kind of the whole point.
At Head Strong Workplaces, we help organisations take a practical, evidence informed approach to mental health in the workplace. That means helping you understand psychosocial hazards, support your leaders, build healthier teams and create workplace mental health programs that actually make sense in the real world.
That’s why we make it our business, literally our business, to deliver practical, engaging support across:
These services help you identify and manage psychosocial hazards and risks, improve mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, and build a mentally healthy workplace that does more than just look good in a policy document.
So, if workplace mental health has been doing your head in and the irony of that’s not lost on you, it’s time to get Head Strong.
Ready to get straight to it?
We love that about you
Psychosocial Risk Management
Helping make sense of psychosocial hazards, risk management and workplace mental health obligations.
Because seriously, what does all that even mean?
Leadership Development
For when you want leaders who understand people, support their teams and, like, actually lead.
Workplace Training
Workplace mental health training that people actually want to go to.
Crazy, right?
Workplace Peer Support Programs
Because everyone should have a trusted go to human at work.
Want to find out more? Let’s talk!
Workplace mental health support that fits your organisation
Mental health in the workplace is not solved by one workshop, one policy or one awkward poster in the staff kitchen. Although, to be fair, some of those posters are trying their best.
Real workplace mental health support needs to consider your people, your leaders, your systems and the psychosocial risks that may be sitting quietly in the background making everything harder than it needs to be.
Head Strong Workplaces helps organisations build practical, evidence informed approaches to workplace mental health and wellbeing. Whether you need help understanding psychosocial hazards, developing leaders, delivering workplace mental health training or setting up a peer support program, we can help you work out what matters most and where to start.
Who we love to work with:
Small Business
Government
Community Services & Not-for-Profits
Health & Aged Care
Practical support from people who understand workplace mental health
Workplace mental health can get complicated quickly. There are legal obligations, psychosocial hazards, team dynamics, leadership capability, training needs and the very real human beings at the centre of it all. That’s why Head Strong Workplaces brings together mental health expertise, practical workplace experience and a very strong commitment to making this stuff easier to understand.
Our programs are led by experienced health professionals who know how to translate research, psychology, neuroscience and workplace mental health principles into practical strategies your people can actually use.
No jargon Olympics. No training that feels like punishment. Just useful, engaging support that helps your workplace take mental health seriously without making everyone want to hide under the boardroom table.
Meet the Team
Samantha Sellwood
Owner and Registered Psychologist
Molly Petersen
Facilitator and Registered Nurse
Frankie
Head of Engagement
Mason
Chief Mental Health Officer
Workplace mental health FAQs
What does mental health in the workplace mean?
Mental health in the workplace refers to how work affects people’s psychological health and wellbeing. It includes things like workload, support, leadership, communication, culture, job design, psychological safety and how people are treated when they are struggling.
Why is workplace mental health important?
Workplace mental health matters because work can have a huge impact on how people feel, function and cope. A mentally healthy workplace can reduce harm, improve engagement, support better leadership and help people feel safer, more connected and more capable at work.
How can businesses improve mental health in the workplace?
Businesses can improve mental health in the workplace by identifying psychosocial hazards, building supportive leadership capability, offering practical workplace mental health training, developing clear policies and creating support systems such as peer support programs.
What are workplace mental health programs?
Workplace mental health programs are structured activities, strategies or services designed to support mental health and wellbeing at work. They may include psychosocial risk management, leadership development, mental health awareness training, resilience training, peer support programs and practical workplace wellbeing initiatives.
How does Head Strong Workplaces help?
Head Strong Workplaces helps organisations make sense of workplace mental health through psychosocial risk management, leadership development, workplace training and peer support programs. The goal is to build practical capability, not create another dusty document that nobody reads.
Is workplace mental health doing your head in?
If mental health in the workplace is starting to feel bigger, messier or more confusing than expected, we can help you make sense of it.