Spill's employee assistance programme (EAP) for disability charities
How long can someone keep advocating before they need someone in their corner too? Disability charity work means emotionally demanding casework, services stretched past comfortable, and the slow fatigue of fighting the same battles again and again. Spill gives your team unlimited same-day therapy from the top 5% of registered counsellors, so the people who show up for others have someone showing up for them.
Same day counselling sessions
Rolling 30 day contract
Unlimited access from £75 per month

Proudly supporting disability charity teams across the UK





The emotional load of disability support work
Casework in disability support means holding other people's hardest moments while systems move slowly around you. Advocacy fatigue is real, and it's pushing people towards the exit: 60% of charity workers plan to change job within the next year (CharityJob, 2024).
Rising burnout
30% of UK charities reported a rise in staff burnout or exhaustion over the past year. (Pro Bono Economics / NTU, 2023)
Unmanageable workloads
Only 36% of charity workers feel their workload is achievable, down from 53% in 2019. (Charity Well, 2025)
Planning to leave
60% of charity workers plan to change job within the next year. (CharityJob Pay & Retention Report, 2024)
Look after the people who advocate
Your caseworkers and advocates are the service. When they're exhausted, waiting lists grow and outcomes suffer. Investing in their mental health keeps expertise in your team and keeps your support consistent for the people who rely on it.
Build emotional resilience
Give staff tools to manage workload stress and the emotional demands of the role.
More energy for the work that matters
When personal struggles are supported, people show up fully for pupils, students and causes.
Fewer stress-related absences
Early, unlimited support catches problems before they become long-term leave.
All-in-one EAP for your team
Unlimited counselling sessions
A confidential space for staff to process the emotional weight of the mission, from vicarious trauma to plain exhaustion, with a fully qualified therapist. Same-day availability, with no waiting lists, call backs or forms.


Self-guided wellbeing resources
A library of practical, evidence-based resources written by licensed therapists who understand the unique pressures charity workers face. Covering over 200 topics from burnout prevention to vicarious trauma and financial wellbeing, 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 disability charities
More than 30,000 employees use Spill, including teams at some of the UK's best known charities and schools. 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
Choose on criteria, not brochures: counsellors with specialisms in vicarious trauma, grief and burnout, a price you can defend to trustees, and no multi-year lock-in. Spill meets each one. It's the UK's highest rated EAP on Trustpilot, with unlimited sessions, same-day availability, therapists in the top 5% of registered counsellors, and hours from 7am to 9:30pm, seven days a week. Staff book through Slack, MS Teams, SMS or email, and the whole team is covered for £75 a month, rolling monthly. Cheaper helpline EAPs will quote less, but 6 to 8 session caps and call centres mean typical usage of 3 to 5%, which is money spent on a benefit nobody touches.
Spill costs £75 a month for the whole team. For a disability support organisation with 15 staff, that's £5 per person per month for unlimited counselling with same-day availability. There's no lock-in, just a rolling 30 day contract, which makes the spend simple to explain to a board. Book a demo to see how it would work for your team.
An EAP is confidential mental health support your charity funds for its staff. For disability teams, it means a qualified counsellor to help process heavy casework and advocacy fatigue, available when it's needed rather than weeks later. Spill offers unlimited sessions, same-day availability, and booking through Slack, MS Teams, SMS or email.
Emotionally demanding casework means absorbing frustration, grief and worry that belong to other people's lives, while stretched services leave little time to recover. The sector feels it: 60% of charity workers plan to change job within the next year (CharityJob, 2024). Accessible therapy helps your team put the work down, process it and come back steadier.
Yes. Small disability charities get the same product as everyone else: unlimited counselling, same-day availability and setup within days. It's £75 a month for the whole team, with no minimum size and a rolling 30 day contract you can cancel with 30 days' notice.
The charity sector has one of the highest turnover rates of any sector, at around 18% a year. Spill gives staff confidential, unlimited support that makes them feel genuinely cared for, which is linked to greater job satisfaction and longer tenure. That keeps the people who power your mission.
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.