The Willingness Team boldly left the Malta Business Awards in December with the Bronze Award in the Social Impact category. This recognition is evidence of the team’s relentless dedication to enhancing our community’s mental health and well-being and creating a conducive atmosphere for working professionals.
Long advocating a goal well beyond the four walls of therapy sessions, the Willingness Team guarantees access to mental health treatment and psychoeducation stays a pillar of its activities by reinvesting 20% of yearly revenues into the community. This involves launching creative psychoeducational programmes aiming at stigma reduction, self-awareness promotion and empowerment of people to take responsibility for their mental health.
One of Willingness’s most notable projects is the provision of highly subsidised treatment sessions. Willingness uses a minimal charge approach; sessions cost €5 or €10 according to the client’s stated needs. Based on years of expertise and evidence-based observations, this method results from insights that suggest clients are more likely to take treatment seriously when there is a component of personal engagement. Though well-meaning, free sessions can experience more non-attendance and disengagement.
“We decided to skip free sessions because we respect the client and the professional,” explains Willingness Managing Partner Matthew Bartolo.
Clients who make a modest contribution are more likely to be committed to the process and achieve the goal set for their therapy. Simultaneously, they make sure the experts providing these services get paid their full rates, as their knowledge and time are priceless.
The team’s creative approach preserves the integrity of the professional connection while making therapy more readily available to people in need. One of the several reasons the Willingness approach has helped the company to become a leader in the mental health sector in Malta is this harmony between sustainability and accessibility.
The reinvestment attitude of Willingness continues inside the local community. The development and welfare of its staff receive a further twenty per cent of the company’s annual income. Understanding that mental health treatment is constantly changing, the team actively encourages its practitioners to pursue specialities and attend frequent seminars.
Maintaining current knowledge of the newest treatment approaches is vital in a competitive field. Willingness guarantees that its team members have the tools to keep developing as practitioners, enabling them to provide clients with the best, evidence-based treatment available.
“Professional development is a responsibility rather than only a benefit. We owe our clients the most excellent versions of what we do. This implies lifelong learning and adaptation to fresh ideas and methods based on research. Investing in our staff helps individual careers and raises the general quality of treatment in our community,” Bartolo says.
The Bronze Award in the Social Impact category honours Willingness’s whole giving-back philosophy. The company’s approach deftly combines professional development, subsidised care and community engagement to produce a knock-on impact that influences life all across Malta.
The prize also emphasises the need for sustainability in projects aiming at social influence. Willingness has developed a compassionate and helpful paradigm by deftly balancing the requirements of clients, experts and the larger society.
The efforts of the Willingness Team show what is achievable when social responsibility is at the core of an organisation’s objective while Malta is confronting increasing mental health issues. The Malta Business Awards honour previous successes and make a call to keep stretching limits and investigate fresh approaches to change the world.
Just the start is winning the Bronze Award. Willingness is still dedicated to its goals of increasing mental health consciousness, removing obstacles to treatment and helping the experts who make it all possible. Willingness has won the Gold for Leader in Mental Health Award in the same Malta Business Awards the year before.
In a time when mental health issues are more critical than ever, Willingness provides a great model of how companies may mix profit with purpose to produce significant transformation. The honour serves as a reminder of the team’s progress and a spur to keep aiming for an even better future.
Congratulations to the Willingness Team for their well-earned honour; thank you for your priceless service to our neighbourhood.
