Employee therapy access
Therapy access for international employees
For companies, international schools, universities, and NGOs with relocated and international employees.
The mental health support you already provide is probably not being used by the people who most need it. Traditional Employee Assistance Programs report engagement rates between 3 and 8 percent of eligible employees, with a median around 5 percent (industry utilization data).
An employee working in their third language, thousands of kilometers from anyone who knew them before, is not going to open up to a stranger who has never lived it. Expathy matches your employees with licensed psychologists who share their native language and cultural background.
The employee does not have to explain what it is like. The therapist already knows.
Access gap
Why your current support is not reaching them
Your current support is not reaching international employees because the offer feels distant, generic, and unsafe to use. Low EAP engagement shows that availability is not the same as trust, especially when language, cultural fit, and fear of being judged make silence feel easier.
EAP utilization is typically 3 to 8 percent, with a median around 5 percent (industry utilization data).
In the UK, roughly 5 percent of employees access their EAP, in part because around 60 percent of initial calls are redirected to self-help or external charities (EAPA UK and industry reporting).
For international staff, the specific failure is language, cultural fit, and the strong incentive to stay silent rather than look like they cannot cope in a country they chose to move to. This is not a communications problem. Sending more emails about the EAP will not fix it. It is a fit problem.
Employee access
How it works for the employee
Employees get private access without asking HR, calling a phone queue, or proving they need help. They sign in with their company email, enter the company code, get matched with a culturally aligned licensed psychologist, and book directly without referral, gatekeeping, or manager involvement.
- Step 1
The employee signs in with their company email.
- Step 2
They enter the company code.
- Step 3
They are matched with a licensed psychologist who shares their native language and cultural background.
- Step 4
They book. No referral, no waiting list, no conversation with HR.
HR is never in the loop. The employee does not have to ask permission or explain themselves to anyone at the company.
Employer view
What the employer sees
The employer sees aggregate usage only, so the company can know whether the programme is being used without knowing who used it or why. There are no names, no individual data, no session content, and nothing attributable to any person, ever.
You will know the programme is being used.
You will never know who used it.
- Aggregate usage only, for example how many employees used the service.
- No names, no individual data, and no session content.
- Nothing attributable to any person, ever.
Budget risk
Why this matters to the budget
This matters to the budget because untreated depression and anxiety create measurable productivity loss before HR sees a resignation. For international employees, the cost often appears as absence, disengagement, lower performance, and a departure the company did not know was building.
12 billion
working days are lost globally each year to depression and anxiety, according to the World Health Organization.
US$1 trillion
is the roughly estimated annual cost in lost productivity, according to WHO.
The cost of an international employee quietly struggling is not one line item. It shows up as absence, as disengagement, and eventually as a resignation the company did not see coming.
Included
What is included
The package includes ongoing therapy access for every eligible employee, not only relocated staff. Employees use company-email and company-code access, are matched by native language and cultural background, and the employer receives aggregate usage reporting only as part of one enterprise package.
- An enterprise therapy package, priced on the number of employees
- All employees eligible, not only relocated staff
- Matching by native language and cultural background
- Ongoing access, not a fixed block of sessions that runs out at the worst moment
- Company-email and company-code access
- Aggregate usage reporting to the employer
Annual term
Term and commitment
The package runs on an annual contract with a mid-year check-in, so access remains available beyond a single event or campaign. During the check-in, Expathy and the company review aggregate usage and adjust the number of seats if needed without interrupting access.
Annual
The contract is annual because therapy is not an event, and an employee who starts struggling in month nine still needs somewhere to go.
Mid-year
The mid-year check-in reviews aggregate usage and helps adjust the number of seats if the programme needs to expand or narrow.
Why this is not a generic therapy benefit
This is not a generic therapy benefit because Expathy psychologists are licensed clinicians who are themselves expats, matched to employees by native language and cultural background. That is the whole mechanism, and it is what a generic provider cannot do.
Company setup
How it works for the company
For the company, setup is a simple commercial and access process: book a short call, size the package to your headcount, issue the company code to employees, and review aggregate usage together at the mid-year check-in before the annual renewal.
- Step 1
Book a 15-minute call with a real person.
- Step 2
We size the package to your headcount.
- Step 3
Your employees get a company code and can start immediately.
- Step 4
You receive aggregate usage, and we review it together at the mid-year check-in.
Trust and confidentiality
Confidentiality is absolute: all sessions are delivered by licensed psychologists, nothing an individual employee says is ever reported back to the employer, and the employer receives aggregate usage only. There are no names, no individual data, and nothing attributable to any person.
- All sessions are delivered by licensed psychologists.
- Nothing an individual employee says is ever reported back to the employer.
- The employer receives aggregate usage only, with no names and no individual data.
- Confidentiality is absolute.
Book a 15-minute company call
You will speak with a real person about eligibility, headcount, company-code access, and aggregate usage reporting, not complete a generic request form.