A Month After Another Force Brought In ‘Have A Cry’ Rooms
By Sebastian Murphy-bates: Police have recruited a hypnotherapist to help female staff through the menopause while another force has set up crying rooms.
West Midlands Police has brought in expert Steve Woods to work with ladies going through the change.
The force has a regular support group for those experiencing related health problems at work.
Mr Woods runs his company from Cannock, Staffordshire, and attended a menopause meeting at the Birmingham headquarters last week.
He specialises in wellbeing at work and said menopausal women had already expressed their gratitude following the initial session.
'We are going to be doing it on a regular basis, and looking at creating products that may be useful to them, audio recordings and all sorts of things,' he said.
'At that initial meeting we got some really good feedback. It was a learning exercise on both sides - them and me - as being a man menopause is not something I know a massive amount about.
'I had a lot of learning to do as well, we did some work and they really got some benefits. It’s an ongoing project.
'Hypnosis is very much experiential, because it’s all about experiencing things under hypnosis.