Burnout Breakrooms: Employee Mental Health and Stress Management
Lower staff turnover and improve workplace wellness in Richmond, VA with Burnout Breakrooms: an on-site stress management program for your staff.
Let’s discuss how I can reduce burnout through ongoing support for your team’s mental health and wellbeing.
The research is clear…
Employee mental health matters.
Over 77% of employees face chronic work stress and 57% experience burnout (with 1 in 3 considering quitting), yet only 35% feel their company provides adequate support (American Psychological Association).
Support Employee Mental Health with Burnout Breakrooms
Your staff knows they’re burned out (maybe you know it, too). They’re craving a space where they can slow down, manage stress, and feel supported. Let’s create a culture that prioritizes employee mental health and workplace wellness in Richmond, VA.
Growing With Gold’s Burnout Breakrooms are recurring in-person groups held in a meeting room of your choosing where staff can connect, regulate, and reset.
- Sessions include practical stress management and mindfulness strategies that allow staff to recharge when feeling burned out
- Separated by role (frontline staff and leadership) to ensure psychological safety
- Available weekly, biweekly, or monthly to fit the needs of your organization
- Session format is flexible and responsive to what staff need in the moment
Burnout Breakrooms are especially supportive for:
- Medical and mental health care facilities and organizations
- Law firms, industrial companies, and tech companies
- Property management, hospitality, and customer service
- Any workplace where staff are stretched thin
How it Works
Free Phone Consultation
During our call, we’ll discuss your team’s needs, your budget, and how I can support you with reducing burnout and improving employee mental health in your organization.
Setting Up Your Breakrooms
We’ll implement the structure that works best for your organization.
- Commitment: Start with a pilot program or 6-month contract
- Frequency: Twice per week, weekly, or biweekly
- Session Length: 30, 60, or 90 min
- Staff Groups: Frontline staff, leadership, or sessions for both
Option to Extend Our Partnership
As our initial contract comes to an end, we’ll discuss options for renewal.
- Evaluate staff engagement and benefits
- Maintain the same structure or explore other options that would better serve your team
- Integrate additional offerings (e.g., customizable workshops, drop-in hours for brief 1:1 stress resets)
Benefits of Burnout Breakrooms
Provide your staff with the space they’re needing to self-regulate before burnout becomes turnover.
Improve Employee Mental Health and Lower Staff Turnover
When staff have regular access to support and sustainable self-care practices, they stay more connected to their work.
For client-facing and helping professions especially, compassion fatigue, overextending, and blurred boundaries are common. Burnout Breakrooms give staff the care they need before burnout becomes turnover.
Enhance Communication and Collaboration
Stress floods the brain with cortisol, which impairs creative problem solving, communication, and empathy.
Burnout Breakrooms provide emotional support and practical stress management strategies that reduce reactivity and lead to enhanced self-expression and compassionate understanding.
Improve Productivity and Performance
When employees feel emotionally supported, their overall performance improves naturally.
With Burnout Breakrooms, you’ll notice staff show up to work with increased focus and attention to detail (reducing costly mistakes), higher confidence, more effective problem-solving, and the ability to remain calm and motivated during high-pressure tasks and deadlines.
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Pricing Structure
Pilot Program
Commitment: 4 hours
- Session Length: 30 or 60min
Frequency: Weekly or biweekly
- Frontline staff OR leadership: $300/hr
- Both groups (separate sessions): $270/hr (10% discount)
6-Month Commitment
Commitment: Minimum of 12 hours
- Session Length: 30, 60, or 90min
Frequency: Twice per week, weekly, or biweekly
- Frontline staff OR leadership: $250/hr
- Both groups (separate sessions): $225/hr (10% discount)
Renewals
Commitment: After completing the pilot or 6-month contract, you can continue on a recurring monthly basis with 30 days notice to pause or end.
- Session Length: 30, 60, or 90min
Frequency: Twice per week, weekly, or biweekly
- Frontline staff OR leadership: $300/hr
- Both groups (separate sessions): $270/hr (10% discount)
Optional Add-Ons
Available within any active contract (pilot, 6-month, or renewal).
- Monthly drop-in hours: Book up to 8 additional hours per month. We’ll determine designated times when I’ll be on site for staff to drop in for brief 1:1 sessions (up to 15 min per person) for personalized stress resets/wellness check-ins.
- $300/hr
- $2,160 for 8 hours (10% discount)
- Customizable workshops: Designed around your team’s specific needs (can include emerging patterns in group sessions, or topics of your choosing such as emotional intelligence and teamwork, communication and boundaries, compassion fatigue, and more).
- 60min workshop: $1,000
- 90min workshop: $1,500
- Half-day workshop (3-4 hours): $2,500-3,500
Ready to Bring Burnout Breakrooms to Your Workplace?
I’m here to support the mental health and wellbeing of the people who keep your organization running.
Let’s talk about creating this space for them.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is mindfulness and how can it support employee mental health?
Mindfulness is a neutral, nonjudgmental, objective awareness of the present moment, so it’s common to wonder how that perspective can support businesses that are often focused on reaching targets, achieving goals, and meeting deadlines.
Mindfulness enhances focus, reduces stress, and fosters emotional resilience—all of which contribute to better decision making, creative problem solving, more effective communication, and increased productivity. Bringing mindfulness practice to your workplace with Burnout Breakrooms can lead to fewer mistakes, stronger teamwork, and improved work ethic and overall job satisfaction.
What actually happens in a group session?
Sessions are emotionally supportive and grounding. I hold space for meaningful discussion around what your staff is struggling with in the moment, how stress is impacting them, and provide practical strategies and grounding practices they can take into the rest of their day, including mindfulness, breathwork, meditation, and gentle movement.
Do we have to commit long term?
You can start with the Pilot, which is a 4 hour commitment over the course of 1-2 months (weekly or biweekly sessions) to determine if Burnout Breakrooms are a good fit for your workplace. Or, if you’re ready for a longer term partnership, you can opt for the 6-month commitment with a minimum of 12 hours. After completing either, you can continue on a month-to-month basis with 30 days notice to pause or end our partnership.
Why are sessions separated into 2 groups?
Sessions are separated by role (frontline staff and leadership) to ensure psychological safety. People are often not comfortable being fully honest about burnout and stress when their supervisor is in the room. Separating sessions allows everyone to show up authentically without worrying about how it looks to their boss. This is what will allow your staff to receive the support they’re needing.
Based on your organization’s structure, we can also discuss breaking this down even further to ensure these groups are comfortable and emotionally safe.
Are sessions facilitated online or in person?
Burnout Breakrooms focus on in-person presence and connection. For organizations located in Richmond, Virginia and nearby areas, sessions are held on site in a meeting room of your choosing. For organizations outside Richmond, we can discuss travel arrangements or explore virtual options during our consultation.
What types of workplaces benefit from this program?
Hospitals, mental and physical healthcare organizations, industrial companies, tech companies, and any workplace where staff are stretched thin and burnout is impacting your team. This works best for organizations with in-person staff presence who can show up to recurring sessions, even if only for 30 minutes.