"I kept my anxiety secret for years. Then I opened up at work—and everything changed"

In the 1990s, most people didn’t understand mental health, let alone discuss it. So even though Nicole began having panic attacks as a teenager, no one outside her family knew what she was going through—until she decided to tell her manager.

Created as part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2023, exploring Oliva users’ most common wellbeing focus: anxiety.

Nicole Gottselig is Senior Brand Editor at Hotjar and host of their Through the Looking Jar podcast. She has experience as a content writer & editor with established organisations, from Yellow Pages Canada to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Oliva is the UK & Europe's #1 rated employee mental wellbeing benefit.

We help companies respond to the pivotal moments that impact mental wellbeing at work and beyond—driving employee retention and exceptional effort.

We do this by:

• Empowering individuals to take control of their mental wellbeing
• Developing manager emotional intelligence
• Helping HR teams create org-wide psychological safety