Consulting and Training

Boost offers organizational trainings that teach the necessary skills to thrive in the workplace. We offer customized and standard trainings in burnout, self-care, boundaries, emotional intelligence, crisis management, vicarious trauma, conflict/resolution, and trauma-informed care.  These trainings have shown to improve inter-departmental communication, trauma-informed management, organizational sustainability, and employee retention and motivation.  All of these factors directly impact the meaningful work you do with your clientele and community. When you choose Boost you're choosing to invest in self-awareness, resilience, and growth.  Our passionate trainers are experts in their fields of study and their trainings are innovative, fun, and accessible.

Our Options

Packages

We always recommend a package. It saves you money. It shows investment in your employees. It’s customized to your needs. And it offers you the most support. Package rates vary based upon need, depth, and quantity of employees.

Customized Training Package

Packages include:

• Needs Assessment

• Pre-workshop training (1 hour)

• A customized series of two-hour trainings

• Training packet

• 4 hours of follow-up consultation

Training course includes:

• One week for assessment

• Two weeks to customize your training

• Intro and pre-service training

• Approximately one content-based training every month for 3 months

• One week for follow-up and presentation of Training Packet

• 4 hours of consultation-as needed after training course ends

We start with a needs assessment of your organization. In order to offer you the most beneficial set of trainings, we want to make sure we are customizing it to your organization’s exclusive needs. It includes an interview with leadership, an observational walk-through, and an employee survey. 

This allows us to:

• Target specific areas for change

• Indicate how a training model might be adapted to an organization’s unique needs

• Evaluate the effectiveness of the systems change

• Develop an implementation strategy

At the end of the training you will receive a Training Packet that includes:

• Summary of Needs Assessment

• Printed version of trainings and handouts

• Customized implementation strategy

• Customized resource guide

Standard Trainings (packages or a la carte)

These trainings use our standard curriculum (non-customizable) and are charged based upon a package rate or a la carte. Packages include 3 trainings, a non-customized implementation strategy, and resource guide curated by Boost’s experts.

Trauma Informed Care 101

Trauma-informed care is a framework that can help support employees by building their knowledge about how to self-regulate, honor a client’s/service recipient’s experience, foster safe spaces for open/honest communication, and instill within them supportive and accessible knowledge to combat their own burnout. Having accessible knowledge about stress, trauma, and organizational resiliency supports employees in cultivating self-awareness, building their understanding of trauma and stress responses, and integrating new practices that are healthy and sustainable. Our trauma-informed care workshop and experience will share definitions for a common language, offer an overall understanding about how the traumatized/stressed brain works, explore what trauma-Informed care is, explain why employees/employers should care, and learn how to apply these new practices through case-study presentations and activities.

Healthy boundaries + Self-Care

How we relate to ourselves has immediate implications in the we work do and ways we interact with others. Boundaries are the expression of these intrapersonal and interpersonal interactions. So, these dynamic structures are bound to show up in the workplace. This training will leave you with an overall understanding of boundaries. We will help you uncover ways boundaries play into job/life satisfaction and self-care. And then show you how to develop strategies to improve communication, stimulate collaboration, unpack conflict, and enhance your mental and social wellness.

Identifying burnout + creating sustainable practices

In this workshop we define and explore the effects and impact of employee burn-out.  We investigate how the brain is impacted by stress and the long-term impact stress can have on your emotional and mental wellness. We also illustrate indicators that you or your employees may be experiencing burnout and offer tactics to combat the effects. Additionally, we go into depth about the importance of self-care and community care—and what it means to promote it within your organization.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is such a buzzword these days, but what is it really? While researchers have not yet agreed on a single definition of mindfulness, it is understood to be the process of paying attention to what’s happening as it’s happening. In this workshop we explore the many definitions, applications, and benefits of mindfulness. We explore why we should care about mindfulness and how it relates to navigating and managing personal/communal stress and overwhelm. We also offer practical ways to integrate mindfulness into our busy lives.

Vicarious trauma training

In this training, we define vicarious trauma, discuss the signs of experiencing vicarious trauma, and then offer strategies that encourage effectively managing a demanding work environment and promote employee wellness. We discuss how a system itself can be traumatizing to its staff.  So we offer the space to air out toxic dynamics in the workplace and give you sustainable practices to support communication, collaboration, and client-delivery.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is how well we can manage our own emotions and the emotions of others. It is the ability to practice self-awareness by tuning into our own feelings and emotions. The key is to do this while also being aware of other people’s perspectives, emotions and feelings. When we notice where we are emotionally, we are able to notice it in others. In this session we will walk your staff through the practicing definitions within emotional awareness; help your staff understand their current relationship with their emotions, and learn how to deepen awareness about how they feel in order to anticipate and communicate their needs to others.

Crisis Management

Do your staff work with high-risk clients? Do they feel ill-prepared to deal or manage crises? This training will help break-down the impact of a crisis on the brain in order to better understand how to intervene and help things settle. We will offer specific strategies in working with people in crisis, maintaining personal safety and emotional regulation, and assessing for risk and safety.

Stress + The Brain Workshop

This is our bi-yearly workshop that we offer to anyone in the community for a discounted price. We sprinkle in information from: TIC 101 and Boundaries + Self-Care trainings. It is supportive to the individual, leadership working to develop healthier culture within an organization, or practitioners working support themselves or their clientele. Check out our shop to see when the next one is featured!

Conflict/Resolution

Human beings experience conflict on a daily basis. Overall, conflict is surrounded by negative assumptions, but we believe it can be used as a catalyst for learning and development. Exploring our own associations with conflict, identifying our own communication styles, and understanding how our learned cultural behaviors have benefited or prevented us in meeting our and others’ needs. We will guide participants in understanding their communication and conflict styles through interactive discussions and movement-based activities. Our hope is to invite deep and critical thought about how our identities inform and impact our communication style(s)/approach(es) to conflict. We will illustrate how no style is the right style; no strategy is the right strategy. We will model how to get our needs met, how to practice self-awareness in order to critically read situations, respond effectively, and learn how to ask the right questions in order to collaboratively problem solve.

Hourly Consultation

(phone or in-person)

Contact: (720) 466-3531

OWNER, CONSULTANT

Toni Moran, MA, LPC

Toni is co-owner of Boost Counseling & Consulting. Within her career, Toni has successfully provided education, training and implementation strategies to ensure effective communication and relationships within organizations. She is a compassionate facilitator – encouraging and supporting her clients. Toni views organizations as living and breathing entities, and believes it’s crucial to tap into the physical, mental and emotional health of a company. As a licensed professional counselor, she enjoys merging the benefits of behavioral health and organizational wellness. This is a passion of hers and she enjoys helping companies live by their values. Toni’s approach invites reflection, awareness and practical practices that can be implemented strategically for effective change. 

Contact: (720) 507-7768

CONSULTANT

Katie Herrmann, MSW, LCSW

With her 30 years of experience, Katie has demonstrated direct leadership experience in program development and implementation of behavioral health programming. She has worked extensively with the state behavioral health systems including both Colorado Mental Health Institutes, all 17 community mental health centers in Colorado, the Department of Healthcare Policy and financing as well as other systems within the state serving children and developmental disabilities. Katie’s passion in the behavioral and human services world lies with the promotion of access to care, the elimination of stigma, the promotion of peer services and trauma-informed care. Over the past four years Katie has worked ardently to promote the person-centered approach in behavioral health through the implementation of statewide person-centered trainings, overseeing the transition of individuals out of the state institutes and overseeing institute and community Peer Services throughout the state. Through her extensive work in quality improvement, program development and direct supervision she has directly observed the toll and direct impact that institute and systems trauma has taken not only on the clients those systems are in place to serve but also the toll that the workers within those systems endure.  Katie has developed a keen interest in examining the impact that institutional and systems trauma has on the clients those systems serve but also on the workers within those systems. Through that examination, Katie’s goal is to work with the systems and institutions to find solutions to identify, combat and recover from the trauma and thusly restore them to a healthy, functioning operation which will ultimately translate to better service to those served.     

education

Ball State University
Bachelors Degree, Social Work

University of Georgia
Masters Degree, Social Work

CONSULTANT

Cara Hebert, MS

Cara Hebert has worked in the Healthcare Industry for over ten years and has been in a leadership role since 2008. Cara has experience working on multidisciplinary teams and collaborating with departments across the organization. Her background in the healthcare field has allowed her to gain valuable experience with not only overseeing healthcare programs but also developing and growing each program to meet the needs of the clients. Cara has experience introducing standards of services across all functional areas and developing operational strategies to drive the continuous improvement of quality member care and service. Specifically, Cara has assisted with developing and implementing Trauma-Informed Care Practices in residential treatment settings. The Trauma-Informed Care Principles provided staff with skills to approach clients through a trauma-informed care lens as well as increased each supervisors’ knowledge on how to support staff when working in challenging environments. Cara has not only led an integration of Trauma Informed Care into organizations but also Cultural Competency Initiatives to ensure a diverse work force that can support clients’ cultural backgrounds.  Cara brings a wealth of knowledge in both areas and is passionate about training and coaching organizations to better meet the needs of their staff and clients. 

education

Colorado State University
Bachelors Degree, Human Development & Family Studies

University of Colorado- Denver
Masters Degree, Public Administration

CONSULTANT

Patrece Hairston Peetz, PSYD

Dr. Hairston Peetz is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 10 years of combined clinical and academic experience, public policy experience, and qualitative and quantitative research training. Trained as a pediatric and health psychologist, Patrece is passionate about the integration of Trauma Informed Care practices into medical settings and other corporate arenas. Additionally, having worked as a consultant for pediatric primary care clinics and as a contract manager for a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO), she understands the importance of systems-level integration and alignment in supporting and implementing the Trauma Informed Care model with behavioral health providers and other nonclinical staff. In her work with organizations and clients, Patrece values strong collaboration, openness, creativity, and compassion. She has held leadership positions in the non-profit and public policy sectors and has worked clinically in a variety of settings over the past decade.

education

The Ohio State University
Bachelors Degree, Psychology

Wright State University
PsyD, Clinical Psychology: Masters Degree, Psychology

CONSULTANT

Chellie Voss, PsyD, LPC

Dr. Chellie Voss has 15 years of experience working with individuals experiencing mental health crisis.  She has worked as a lead clinician for 5 years and has helped launch several new intake/access clinics and healthcare navigation programs.  Chellie has provided clinical supervision for numerous new Masters level clinicians all the way through professional licensure.  Chellie’s areas of interest and research include burnout, self-care, and the importance of quality supervision.  Chellie is an experienced clinical supervisor and strongly believes that quality supervision is essential in helping providers establish strong professional boundaries, promote personal wellness and gain confidence in their clinical skills.  Though her experience, Dr. Voss has found that the foundation formed with quality supervision protects helping professionals against vicarious trauma and burnout.  

education

University of California- Davis
Bachelors Degree, Human Development

University of the Rockies
PsyD, Clinical Psychology :: Masters Degree, Psychology

CONSULTANT

Caitlin Long, M. Ed

Caitlin Long is currently a Middle School Teacher at Girls Athletic Leadership School and has over ten years of experience working in gender-specific and social-emotional health education programming. In her ten years of experience, Caitlin has collaborated with a multiplicity of youth development professionals, educators, and non-profit organizations to create and implement gender-specific, culturally sustaining, and critically relevant curriculum through peer trainings, K-12 nonformal educational programs, and customized professional development workshops. All of which provide tools to strengthen the ongoing personal, interpersonal, structural, and institutional change and growth that is needed in the world. Her methods are collaborative and encourage critical reflection about identity differences and are attentive to personal and collective histories. Caitlin's passion and interest in gender-specific education and health and wellness stem from her long-standing commitment to equity, justice, and access to knowledge. At the core of Caitlin's values are teaching tools of empathy, connection, and creating learning conditions that raise critical consciousness of inequities fostered in our world and our own roles in reproducing and resisting them.

education

University of Colorado - Boulder
Bachelors Degree, Cultural Anthropology

Columbia University- Teachers College
Masters of Education Degree, Teaching & Curriculum

CONSULTANT

Mike A. Ramsey, MA

Mike A. Ramsey currently works as a Specialist for Youth Self-Sufficiency as part of the Family and Community Engagement  Office with Denver Public School's equity team. For most of his professional career, he has involved himself in social and emotional development through experiential learning and community engagement. In the past 11 years he has partnered with schools, colleges, artists, businesses and non-profit organizations to design, develop, implement and assess programs or projects aiming to create understanding through creative collaboration and inquiry based exploration. Based in the idea that individuals bring a series of knowledges stemming from the various cultures and communities they are involved in, Mike has used everything from art, agriculture, landscape, physical activity, pop culture, community service and academics to bridge people together in order to create spaces of learning and development.  He is dedicated to creating unique opportunities for participants and partners to experience other's through questions, engagement and mutual experience in order for intentional learning to blossom.

education

University of Colorado – Boulder
Bachelors Degree, International Affairs

Columbia University – Teachers College Masters of Arts in Family/Community Education