Spill's employee assistance programme (EAP) for cafes & coffee shops
What does a 5:30am alarm, a rush-hour queue out the door and wafer-thin margins do to a cafe team over a year? More than most owners realise. Spill gives baristas and cafe staff same-day therapy sessions that fit around opens and closes, booked by SMS so nobody needs a work email, for £75 a month across the whole team.
Same day counselling sessions
Rolling 30 day contract
Unlimited access from £75 per month

Proudly supporting cafe teams across the UK





The pressures brewing behind the counter
53% of hospitality professionals are looking to leave their current roles. For cafe teams, early starts, relentless rush hours and the pressure of low margins make it easy to see why. Support that's genuinely easy to reach can be the reason good people stay.
Work/life imbalance
95% of workers struggle to switch off after work, feeling constantly stressed.
Long hours
62% of employees feel burnout on a daily basis due to the number of hours worked.
High staff turnover
53% of current hospitality professionals are looking to leave their current roles.
Why cafes and coffee shops choose Spill
In a small cafe, losing one experienced barista changes everything, from drink quality to queue times. Giving your team proper mental health support helps you hold onto the people your regulars come back for.
Build resilience on the front line
Give your team practical tools to handle rush-hour pressure, difficult customers and long days on their feet.
Keep the team sharp
Staff who get support for personal and work struggles bring more energy to every shift.
Cut short-notice absence
Early support stops small struggles snowballing into last-minute call-outs and long sick leave.
All-in-one EAP for your team
Unlimited counselling sessions
Somewhere private for kitchen and floor staff to offload after a brutal service, with a fully qualified therapist rather than a helpline script. Sessions are available the same day, before opening, after close and at weekends, with no waiting lists or forms.


Self-guided wellbeing resources
A library of practical, evidence-based resources written by licensed therapists who understand the unique pressures hospitality workers face. Covering over 200 topics from burnout prevention to financial wellbeing and sleep, our online resources can be accessed at any time. They're a great first step for anyone who's not quite ready to speak to a counsellor directly.
Expert guidance and training
Practical, therapist-led training workshops designed to empower staff to spot mental health presentations within nurseries, schools and universities and know how to appropriately respond. Teachers can also check in with a Spill safeguarding clinician for advice at any time.

An EAP the way it should be
Proper mental health support that’s incredibly easy to access.
No hidden exclusions, no hoops to jump through, and no unexpected exit fees.
Spill
Other EAPs
Access
Slack, Teams or Email
Telephone helpline only
Counselling
Same day sessions
2+ week wait for sessions
Limits
Counselling sessions are unlimited
Limited to 6-8 sessions per year
Choice
Choose a specialist
Assigned a generalist counsellor
Exclusions
Every employee gets support
Mild or severe cases excluded
Contract
30 day rolling
1-5 year lock in
Your team is safe in our hands
Instant access
Support in just a few clicks. No waiting lists, callbacks or application forms
High quality care
We only hire the top 5% of registered counsellors who meet our high standards
Full privacy
Therapy sessions are fully confidential, we never see or record any conversations
Proud to be the UK's highest rated EAP for cafes & coffee shops
Over 30,000 employees use (and love) Spill, from independent venues to national brands. But don't just take our word for it.

Spill is fantastic
Having Spill is such a privilege and it's such a fantastic tool. It's excellent whether you need real help now or just need some advice.

Brilliant therapists
My company subscribe to Spill as an employee benefit. I had two courses of 6 sessions throughout an extremely hard time for me.

It’s changed my life
My therapy sessions have genuinely transformed my life, how I manage my relationships and communicate. I cannot thank my company enough.

High quality counselling
Honestly cannot recommend Spill enough. Having access to high quality therapy through your workplace is extremely helpful.
Rated 4.9/5 based on over 100 reviews. Showing our 4 and 5 star reviews.

See Spill in action
Book a free 30 minute demo to hear more Spill’s features and get a tailored quote for your team
FAQs
For a cafe, a good EAP has to fit early starts and small rotas: sessions available outside shift hours, booking by SMS or phone rather than a desk, and no cap that cuts support off after a few conversations. Spill does all of this. Therapists are available 7am to 9:30pm, seven days a week, sessions are unlimited and usually same-day, and every therapist is in the top 5% of counsellors who apply. It's also the UK's highest rated EAP on Trustpilot, used by coffee brands like Allpress Espresso. Traditional helpline EAPs rely on call centres and 6 to 8 session caps, and usage sits at just 3 to 5%, so most teams get very little from them.
Spill is £75 a month for your whole team on a rolling 30 day contract. For a 10-person cafe, that's £7.50 per person per month, with unlimited therapy sessions included rather than a fixed allowance. There are no setup fees and no lock-in, so you can cancel any month. Book a demo and we'll walk you through exactly how it works.
An employee assistance programme is mental health support your cafe pays for, so staff get help without worrying about the cost. With Spill, that means unlimited one-to-one therapy, usually same-day, with therapists available 7am to 9:30pm every day. Baristas book by SMS, email, Slack or MS Teams, so support works even for teams who never sit at a computer.
Early alarms, back-to-back rush hours and the constant maths of low margins wear cafe teams down, and 53% of hospitality professionals are looking to leave their current roles. That churn hurts small teams most. Therapy gives staff a regular place to deal with stress, so tiredness doesn't harden into burnout and a notice letter.
Yes, and honestly, small independents are who Spill suits best. There's no minimum team size, it's £75 a month for the whole team, and setup takes days rather than months. You get the same therapists and unlimited sessions as companies with hundreds of staff.
Staff turnover in hospitality runs at around 47% in bars and 39% in restaurants, with 61% of leavers citing poor mental health as a leading factor. Spill gives your team confidential, professional support that makes them feel genuinely cared for, which research consistently links to greater job satisfaction and longer tenure.
Yes. Spill's counselling is available the same day, including evenings and weekends, because plenty of people don't work standard office hours. Our therapists are available from as early as 7am GMT to as late as 9:30pm GMT, 7 days a week, with no health assessments, waiting lists or call-backs. Employees can access support via SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams or email and book from their phone in a few clicks.
Spill offers therapy sessions in 15+ languages, so your team can speak freely with a counsellor that understands them best. Employees choose their preferred language from a drop-down when they book a session. We currently cover Armenian, Croatian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Igbo, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Tagalog and Ukrainian. We're adding to this list all the time, so let us know if you have a request.
Yes, Spill operates in compliance with GDPR and UK data protection law. Spill is fully secure and therapy sessions are strictly confidential. Video sessions run on an end-to-end encrypted service and all messages to and from therapists are secure. We share aggregate usage data with the company (the number of people who have used Spill) but never names. Slack and MS Teams are only portals used to sign in to our confidential platform. No session content is ever visible to them, to Spill, or to your company.