Two people, a woman and a man, are sitting at a table in a cafe, having a conversation. The woman is facing away from the camera, and the man is smiling and looking at her. The table has two cups of coffee, a laptop, and some papers. The cafe has a large window with a potted plant on the ledge, and decorative mirrors and artwork are hanging on the wall behind them.

Business Wellbeing Support

Free, one-on-one support designed to assist rural and small business owners who are experiencing mental health or emotional wellbeing stress.

Wellbeing and mental health support tailored to your unique business needs and challenges

Business Wellbeing Coaches can help you work through your personal and business challenges, needs and opportunities – in a free one-on-one, confidential, understanding environment, in collaboration with a Rural or Small Business Financial Counsellor, or independently.

Appointments can be face-to-face, via video conferencing, or telephone.

We can help you to identify the source of your challenges and create strategies to help you move forward.

Contact a Wellness Coach

How Business Wellbeing Coaches can help

  • Your Wellness Coach has a background in business, combined with a qualification in social work, psychology, social science, mental health, related field or equivalent experience.

    This enables your Wellness Coach to provide honest and realistic support on a person-to-person basis.

    ‍Note: The support provided by a Business Wellness Coach is not clinical and does not include subscribing medical aids. If it is identified that your needs exceed the support available from a Coach, you shall be referred to an appropriately licensed clinician.

  • A Business Wellness Coach can support you with personal emotional coaching in collaboration with your Rural or Small Business Financial Counsellor, or independently.

    Appointments can be face-to-face, via video conferencing, or telephone.

  • ‍This support is designed to assist rural and small business owners who are experiencing mental health or emotional wellbeing stress. No referral is required.

    To be eligible, applicants must:

    • have fewer than 20 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs)

    • have less than $10 million in annual turnover

    • have an active Australian business number (ABN)

    • have their small business as your primary income source (i.e. 50% or more of the total income), or have a recent record of it being their primary income source and the potential to do so again

    • be based in Queensland

    • have owners/directors that are not insolvent or are an undischarged bankrupt.

    Visit the Business Queensland website for more details.

  • This support is designed to assist rural and small business owners who are experiencing mental health or emotional wellbeing stress.

    The early warning signs to identify if you may be experiencing stress include:

    • Having trouble concentrating

    • Not meeting deadlines

    • Not working to your usual standards

    • Withdrawing from staff

    • Feeling less engaged than usual

    • Feeling worthless or like a failure

    • Being absent from work

    • Feeling irritable, nervous, angry, anxious or worried

    • Feeling depressed or low in energy

    • Having trouble sleeping

    • Sleeping too much

    • Waking up and having difficulty getting back to sleep

    • Experiencing weight or appetite changes

    • Consuming more alcohol or other substances

    • Withdrawing from friends and family

    • Experiencing panic attacks

    • Having emotional or aggressive outbursts

    • Engaging in destructive behaviour

Business Wellbeing Coaches

Providing free, confidential and practical wellbeing support to small business owners in our local communities.

Our Business Wellbeing team work across North Queensland alongside our Small Business Financial Counselling and Rural Financial Counselling teams.

Our team have delivered financial counselling and wellbeing support through RFCSNQ.com.au for more than a decade and continue providing the same trusted support under the Small Business Support North Queensland identity.