Consulting & Training: Elevate Your Workplace with Expert-Led Development

At Boost Counseling & Consulting, we specialize in organizational training and consulting designed to equip your leadership and employees with the skills needed to thrive. Our customized and standard training programs focus on key areas essential to workplace success, including:

  • Burnout Prevention & Self-Care – Foster a culture of well-being and resilience.

  • Trauma-Informed Care & Vicarious Trauma – Create a supportive, inclusive, and psychologically safe workplace.

  • Setting & Maintaining Boundaries – Improve work-life balance and professional relationships.

  • Emotional Intelligence – Enhance communication, teamwork, and leadership skills.

  • Effective & Respectful Communication – Strengthen workplace relationships with clear, compassionate, and impactful communication that enhances motivation, teamwork, and overall well-being.

  • Mindfulness in the Workplace – Harness the power of mindfulness techniques to reduce stress, improve focus, and create a more balanced, engaged, and productive work environment.

Our trauma-informed approach has been proven to strengthen interdepartmental communication, leadership effectiveness, organizational sustainability, and employee retention. When your team thrives, so does your company culture, client satisfaction, and overall business success.

Why Choose Boost Consulting?

Our expert trainers bring deep industry knowledge, practical strategies, and engaging delivery. We offer customizable programs tailored to meet the unique needs of your organization. Our training is designed to produce impact-driven results, helping companies build resilient, motivated, and high-performing teams. Each workshop is interactive, practical, and easy to implement, ensuring your employees gain valuable skills they can use immediately.

Invest in your employees. Invest in your future. Contact us today to discuss how Boost Counseling & Consulting can support your organization’s growth, wellness, and long-term success.

 
I highly recommend Toni and Bronwyn for your organization to lower turnover, burnout and build effective, energetic teams.
— Leslie Pedtke, MHA, LNHA Education Coordinator, Illinois Pioneer Coalition
 
 
 
 

Our Approach: Trauma-Informed Care in the Workplace

At Boost Counseling & Consulting, we believe that a trauma-informed workplace is essential for fostering resilience, collaboration, and long-term success. Trauma-Informed Care is more than a framework—it’s a fundamental shift in how organizations understand and respond to stress, adversity, and mental well-being at every level.

A truly trauma-informed organization ensures that leadership, management, and staff interact with one another—and with clientele—in ways that acknowledge the impact of stress and trauma. This approach promotes psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and effective communication, all of which contribute to a healthier, more engaged workforce.

By integrating trauma-informed practices into workplace culture, organizations can create an environment where employees feel supported, valued, and empowered. This shift in policies, communication, and leadership strategies leads to greater employee retention, increased productivity, and a more positive organizational culture.

Let us help your company implement sustainable, trauma-informed strategies that promote resilience, well-being, and long-term growth.

We pull from several different TIC models including:


 

Our Options

Packages

We highly recommend our training packages as they provide the best value for your investment. A package offers personalized solutions tailored to your organization's unique needs, demonstrates a commitment to your employees' growth, and ensures you receive the maximum level of support. Package rates are flexible and based on the scope, depth, and number of employees involved.

 

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

Our standard trainings follow a structured curriculum and are available at a package rate or à la carte. Our package option includes three trainings, a pre-designed implementation strategy, and a resource guide curated by Boost’s experts to help your organization seamlessly integrate key takeaways into daily operations.

 

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 a powerful tool for enhancing focus, reducing stress, and improving workplace satisfaction. This training introduces practical mindfulness techniques that employees can integrate into their daily routines to boost productivity, emotional resilience, and engagement. By cultivating presence and self-awareness, organizations can create a more balanced, innovative, and motivated work environment.

Effective & Respectful Communication

Effective communication is the foundation of a thriving workplace. This training explores strategies for fostering clear, respectful, and productive conversations that drive motivation, collaboration, and trust. Participants will learn to navigate difficult discussions, provide constructive feedback, and communicate with emotional intelligence, ultimately strengthening workplace relationships and improving overall well-being.

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)

Needing support in navigating workplace communication, employee retention, or overall employee wellness/mental health? As practicing mental health clinicians, we offer a rare lens to combat common issues that arise within the workplace.  We can offer you easy, quick, and informative consultation—either over the phone or in person—where we discuss your needs and offer guidance and education to enhance your company’s productivity and health.

Topics may include:

  • Communication strategies

  • Trauma-informed care initiatives

  • Conflict/resolution and mediation

  • Bringing self-care to your employees

  • Giving employees a voice

  • Prioritizing mental health in the workplace

Click below for our hourly consultation form!

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OWNERS AND CONSULTANTS

Bronwyn Hockersmith, MA, LPC

TONI MORAN, MA, LPC

As co-owners of Boost Counseling & Consulting, Toni and Bronwyn bring a powerful blend of expertise, passion, and strategic insight to help organizations cultivate healthy, thriving workplaces.

With backgrounds in behavioral health, organizational wellness, and trauma-informed care, they understand that organizations are living, breathing entities—and that true success comes from nurturing communication, relationships, and workplace culture.

Bronwyn is a champion for trauma-informed care, with years of experience leading workplace wellness initiatives, trauma-sensitive training, and community partnerships. She has witnessed firsthand the destructive impact of stress, burnout, and trauma in organizations—and, more importantly, the transformative power of trauma-informed leadership on job satisfaction, retention, and systemic sustainability.

Toni’s expertise lies in education, training, and implementation strategies that foster effective communication, self-awareness, and alignment with company values. As a licensed professional counselor, she merges the benefits of behavioral health and organizational wellness, helping companies create meaningful, sustainable change.

Together, they provide engaging, reflective, and strategic consulting services that help organizations reduce burnout, build resilience, and align with their values. Their approach fosters curiosity, motivation, and practical change, ensuring workplaces become spaces where people thrive, create, and connect.