Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

image of three closed padlocks in a circleHarvard’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers confidential consultation, assessment and referral, and short-term counseling to help staff, faculty and their household members with personal or work-related concerns including sexual harassment and other sexual misconduct.. EAP also provides unlimited consultation to managers and HR practitioners. Trained domestic violence counselors are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week by telephone.

Contact EAP: 877-EAP-HARV (877-327-4278) 24 hours a day

Are my conversations confidential?  Conversations with EAP counselors acting in their capacity as mental health clinicians are privileged under the law, meaning that mental health clinicians are prohibited from disclosing what you have shared with them, even in a legal proceeding, unless you give them permission.