About Us

Health, Stress & Lifestyle Management CC was established in 1997 to introduce the South African market to the internationally proven success of Corporate and Individual Wellness Programmes.

Gaining recognition as a pioneer of this new concept in the local business environment and consumerism, HSLM's programmes encourages effective health and stress management through healthy work style and lifestyle patterns.

Due to an increased demand, Health Stress Management (Pty) Ltd was founded in 2001 to increase the co-operacy between different wellness professionals and to increase the scope of addressing the huge demand for both corporate and individual Wellness Programmes. Co-operacy is a sign of the times, where individuals, each a specialist in a related field, work and network together in order to offer comprehensive services that compliment each other, while increasing the efficacy and range of services.

HSM has registered the Corporate Life Programmes®, a programme developed to company specific requirements. This is a unique concept whereby a complete medical examination with health risk assessment, including a stress, fitness and wellness assessment, is combined with a physical examination, comprehensive wellness and fitness report, together with a personalised wellness programme and recommendations ranging from the use of alternative medicine, through correct use of food supplements and herbs, to fitness and stress management tools and techniques, in order to address the issues highlighted by the examination and risk assessment.

Not only do we identify the problem, we also provide the solution!

Profile of Director and CEO of Health Stress Management (Pty) Ltd: Dr. Arien van der Merwe

Health Stress Management (Pty) Ltd: Service Summary for South Africa & abroad

This service provider company specialises in the management of the chronic lifestyle diseases (or rather health challenges!) through health, wellness and stress management training, as well as practical workplace wellness interventions. We present and facilitate talks, workshops and courses throughout South Africa and abroad, as well as practical training and support of existing company health teams to become independent wellness consultants within the company.

• Personal consultations that include advice, explanation and ongoing support in a wellness based, whole being approach/philosophy on living a balanced life of health, happiness, meaning and purpose
• Teaching: learning and understanding how to take charge of your own health and wellbeing
• Disease as teacher: An integrative approach where nutrition, herbal remedies, mental-emotional block release, stress management and wellness solutions form the backbone for the management of all the chronic health challenges
• Talks, workshops, courses on practical stress management, natural remedies, wellness, body-mind connection and energy medicine
• Workplace wellness interventions:
• Integrate existing EAP, HR, occupational health and wellness professionals to form a cohesive unit that work together to implement wellness interventions 
• Facilitate training courses and provide training material for existing wellness, HR, EAP, occupational health teams to manage in-house programs
• Assist in developing a wellness philosophy/strategy
• Assist in developing benchmarked protocols, procedures for HRA’s, health screenings and implementation of wellness interventions & wellness days
• Internet assisted program development and providing of content
• Education material: books, CD’s, tapes, booklets, brochures
• Talks, workshops, program development 
• Wellness newsletter contributions, publishing and editing
• Posters: HIV/Aids, nutrition, wellness, natural medicine, stress, herbal remedies, spiritual health, food supplements, disease as teacher
• Peer group training: wellness, nutrition, heart, immune system health, stress management, etc.

Health Stress Management (Pty) Ltd Support Options

• Assist in developing benchmarked protocols, procedures for HRA’s, health screenings and implementation of wellness interventions & health/wellness days
• Peer group training: wellness, chronic lifestyle disease management, nutrition, heart, immune system health, stress management, group training, manuals, etc.
• Internet assisted program development, content
• Education material: manuals, books, CD’s, tapes, booklets, brochures
• Talks, workshops, program development by group of health care & wellness specialists
• Training courses for wellness, HR, occupational health teams, to manage in-house programs
• Wellness newsletter contributions
• Posters: HIV/Aids, nutrition, wellness, natural medicine, stress, herbal remedies, spiritual health, food supplements, disease as teacher