An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a service that companies provide for their employees to help them build and maintain their mental and emotional well-being. It helps companies sustain employee productivity despite personal challenges that employees would normally experience in life. An EAP typically consists of short-term psychological interventions such as individual counseling, relationship or couples counseling, group counseling sessions, critical incident response, and educational talks. Some EAPs also include financial and legal consultations. A comprehensive EAP service would include support to help an organization’s leaders promote an emotionally healthy workplace and equip them to manage troubled employees.