Spill's employee assistance programme (EAP) for edtech
It's late August and the platform has to be ready before term starts. Edtech runs on school calendars: launch crunches every term, sales cycles that stall over summer, and a mission that makes everyone push a bit too hard. Spill gives your whole team unlimited therapy with same-day availability, booked through Slack or Teams, for £75 a month. Support that keeps pace with the academic year.
Same day counselling sessions
Rolling 30 day contract
Unlimited access from £75 per month

Proudly supporting edtech teams across the UK





When the school calendar sets your deadlines
Edtech teams work to deadlines they don't control: term starts, exam windows and procurement cycles that vanish over the holidays. Add mission pressure and the crunch gets personal. It's no surprise that 52% of developers plan to leave their current job within a year (CodinGame & CoderPad, 2023).
Technicians at risk
IT technicians have more than twice the odds of anxiety or depression compared with IT managers. (UK Biobank study, 2022)
Half plan to quit
52% of developers plan to leave their current job within a year, with pay the top reason. (CodinGame & CoderPad, 2023)
High turnover
The tech and communications sector sees around 35% staff turnover a year, above the UK average. (CIPD / ONS, 2024)
Keep the people who built your product
Losing an engineer mid-crunch means missed launches and a scramble to cover the school year's deadlines. Accessible mental health support keeps your team steady through the crunch and less likely to walk after it.
Make resilience part of the culture
Give people tools for stress, imposter syndrome and always-on pressure.
Ship with clearer heads
Supported teams focus better, collaborate better and burn out less.
Cut burnout before it bites
Same-day support catches problems while they're still small.
All-in-one EAP for your team
Unlimited counselling sessions
Book a therapist directly from Slack or Teams and talk the same day, about burnout, imposter syndrome or anything else. No waiting lists, no phone menus, no forms, and sessions run into the evening and at weekends.


Self-guided wellbeing resources
A library of practical, evidence-based resources written by licensed therapists who understand the unique pressures tech workers face. Covering over 200 topics from burnout prevention to imposter syndrome 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 edtech
More than 30,000 employees use Spill, many of them at the UK's fastest growing companies. 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
The right EAP for edtech needs to flex with the academic calendar: same-day sessions during term-time crunches, evening availability when launches run late, and no session caps that end support halfway through. Spill delivers on all of it. It's the UK's highest rated EAP on Trustpilot, with unlimited counselling, same-day availability and therapists working 7am to 9:30pm, seven days a week. It's £75 a month for the whole team on a rolling 30 day contract, and edtech companies like Multiverse and Perlego already use it. If you just need a policy line for a tender, a cheap helpline might do, but with 3 to 5% usage, it rarely helps anyone in practice.
Spill is £75 a month for your whole team, on a rolling 30 day contract. For a 25-person edtech team, that's £3 per person per month, with unlimited therapy sessions included rather than the 6 to 8 session caps of traditional providers. There's no lock-in either, so you're never stuck in a 2 to 5 year contract. Book a demo to see it in action.
An EAP for edtech gives your team confidential access to therapy and mental health support. Spill fits edtech's rhythm: bookable through Slack, MS Teams, SMS or email, with same-day sessions when a term-time launch gets heavy and therapists available 7am to 9:30pm, seven days a week, all year round rather than just in term time.
Edtech's pressures are cyclical but relentless: launch crunches pegged to term dates, sales cycles that compress into a few school-buying windows, and the extra weight of building something that matters for learners. Left unsupported, that wears people down. Across the industry, 52% of developers plan to leave their current job within a year (CodinGame & CoderPad, 2023).
Yes. Spill already works with 600+ small companies, there's no minimum size, and you can be live within days. It's £75 a month for the whole team, on a rolling 30 day contract, so small edtech teams get the same care as big ones.
With around 35% annual turnover in the sector and over half of developers eyeing the exit, retention is costly. Spill gives your team confidential, unlimited support delivered in Slack and Teams. It's a benefit employees actually use, and that's linked to greater 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.