Holiday Therapy: Prioritizing Mental Health
The holiday season can be a lot—end-of-year performance reviews, holiday parties, family obligations, and the pressure to get everything right.
Honestly, it’s enough to send anyone into a spiral!
That’s why I’m hosting this virtual event to help you navigate the chaos and keep your mental health in check. 🧘♀️✨
Join us on December 11th at 1PM ET for Holiday Therapy: Prioritizing Mental Health
—an event focused on managing stress and burnout during the holiday season while fostering an inclusive, supportive work environment!
We’ll talk about respecting different cultures, managing holiday triggers (like alcohol at events), and how you can set the tone for a mentally healthy team as the year wraps up.
Here’s what you’ll walk away with:
✅ Why holiday stress can have a major impact on your team’s well-being
✅ How offering mental health resources can make all the difference
✅ Simple ways to help employees recharge, feel supported, and boost morale during this busy season
PSA: We’ve also got an awesome lineup of guest speakers (stay tuned!) ready to share real-world tips for keeping it together during the holiday madness.
A huge shoutout to BetterHelp for making this event possible! BetterHelp offers the largest network of licensed therapists, with BetterHelp Business, your team can get the mental health support they need this season and beyond.
You can learn more about BetterHelp here.
Hebba Youssef
Hebba Youssef is the Chief People Officer at Workweek and founder and creator of “I Hate it Here.” Her weekly newsletter has over 120,000 subscribers and focuses on how HR/People teams can build great work cultures.
Hebba has led a global learning and development teams, ran talent management teams, and was most recently the Head of People at a fintech startup. She's built People Ops teams from the ground up, scaled companies, and gained a few white hairs along the way. Hebba has worked across several industries like tech, fintech and media and was most recently at Axios and Lithic.
In her free time, you can find her reading sci-fiction or fantasy novels and playing board games with her family.
Bindu Garapaty
As a true believer in the human spirit, Bindu Garapaty has dedicated her passions to helping people find the intersection of happiness, human behavior, and leadership. With a doctorate degree in clinical psychology and an entrepreneurial spirit, Dr. Garapaty is the co-founder and CEO of The Happy Leader, LLC. Currently she serves as the Chief People Officer of Betterhelp. Dr. Garapaty’s focus areas include human centered leadership, diversity and inclusion, education, and women’s health. Her approach highlights the importance of understanding cultural paradigms, building emotional resilience and building powerful networks and communities.Building catalytic connections, giving back, serving as the mother of two high school athletes, and creating new experiences are a few things that contribute to Dr. Garapaty’s happiness quotient.
Stephanie Lemek
Stephanie Lemek is a Culture, Talent, and HR expert with over 16 years of experience across Fortune 500 companies and startups, specializing in HR strategy and workplace culture. With a strong background in the built environment, she understands the unique challenges of construction and engineering industries. Noticing gaps in traditional workplace support, Stephanie has become a leader in promoting trauma-informed workplaces. Her mission is to help organizations and individuals succeed by creating cultures that address the impact of trauma, empowering leaders and HR professionals to foster more empathetic, inclusive, and effective work environments.