as well as other recognised professional counselling registers.
Keith is passionate about creating healthy work places and promoting best practice. Rooted in practice Keith has extensive experience of providing counselling, stress and well being services in the workplace, as a counsellor, trainer, registered expert witness and ex-social worker. Keith has worked within both the public and private sectors.
Before setting up the Red Poppy Company in 2002, he worked for Coventry City Council, providing counselling, training and well being services for the 17,000 employees who worked there. He has also worked for Coventry University, Plymouth University, FirstAssist and PPC.
Keith is active in raising awareness and educating personnel who are responsible for providing healthy workplaces. He and Nicola have conducted and published research in this field. In addition Keith and Nicola have co-authored and published many articles relating to the effectiveness of counselling interventions in the workplace. Keith also lectured in Counselling Studies.
Diploma Counselling
Nicola like Keith is also passionate about the workplace. She too is rooted in practice as a counsellor, trainer, lecturer and ex social worker and has also worked for Coventry University, Coventry City Council and PPC. Nicola has worked within both the public and private sectors.
Before setting up the Red Poppy Company in 2002, she worked for Coventry City Council, providing counselling, training and well being services for the 17,000 employees who worked there. She has also worked for Coventry University, Tile Hill College and Mid Warwickshire College and PPC.
Nicola is active in raising awareness and educating personnel who are responsible for providing healthy workplaces. She and Keith have conducted and published research in this field. In addition Keith and Nicola have co-authored and published many articles relating to the effectiveness of counselling interventions in the workplace. Nicola also lectured in Counselling and psychology.
Our nationwide team of trained and experienced associates are able to help employees within your organisation deal with the effects of work related stress, personal stress & trauma.
We can provide the support needed to treat the impact stress and trauma can have on your employees and business.
Red Poppy have a proven track record of helping organisations for more than 15 years. We work with a range of organisations, small and large across all business sectors including public, private and voluntary and emergency services. We work closely with occupational health, HR, managers and business partners.
Red Poppy is effective in improving staff well being, according to employee feedback 93% of staff who completed our evaluations stated that not only did Red Poppy help maintain them at work but also helped to increase their work performance.
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IMASS are both proud and privileged to have enjoyed a strong and mutually supportive relationship with the Red Poppy Counselling Company for over 15 years.
Access to expert and reliable counselling which is flexible enough to meet the needs of employees and employers alike, has enabled IMASS to provide our clients with a comprehensive suite of supporting services and impacted positively on staff relations and in turn absence management.
Red Poppy’s critical incident support and trauma counselling is also exemplary and a specialist area from which the feedback from our clients has never been anything other than extremely positive.
Business Development Manager, IMASS
I’m emailing to thank you and The Red Poppy Company for all your help and advice given to me a few years ago.
I’ve long-since left the organisation that I was employed with then but I have always intended to email you to say how much I appreciated and benefited from the counselling service provided, and that I do hope The Red Poppy Company continues its good work.
Firstly please can I pass on my thanks for your help arranging the recent training here at UWE with Ros.
On the basis that the day was a huge success for us I would love to invite Ros to come back and provide us we another round of Red Poppy treatment for some more of our staff.
We have used Red Poppy since January 2014 to support staff with complex trauma stress resulting from incidents at work or in their personal lives. Red Poppy form a crucial part of our new Health and Wellbeing service- the Staying Well Service- which triages and signposts to the most appropriate support mechanism. Referrals to Red Poppy often follow a high ‘TRiM score’- TRiM being the trauma risk tool that SWAST use to identify potential cases of PTSD. Having Red Poppy as a pathway for the Staying Well Service has proven to be a very effective tool with 93% of staff who completed the evaluation saying that not only did Red Poppy help them stay in work but helped increase their work performance.
I found The Red Poppy Company to be really considerate and helpful in providing a counselling support service for one of my clients. They provided practical advice on what support they would recommend and they were able to switch on the counselling service almost immediately.
