You can’t build something lasting with people who are running on empty.
Esther B. Consulting partners with organizations ready for something more than a one-off program. If you already know wellness is more than a perk, the real question becomes, what do we build instead?
Through strategy, content, and facilitation that’s clinically informed and culturally rooted, we design the kind of wellness culture that actually supports the people your mission depends on.
A lot of organizations invest heavily in the work but not in the people doing it. Burnout isn’t a personal failing or a productivity problem — it’s what happens when people carry meaningful, often heavy work without the structures or support to sustain it. I’ve spent 23 years watching that equation play out, and the last decade building something to change it.
Through workshops, facilitation programs, and content partnerships, I design educational experiences that shift how leaders and teams actually think, not just what they know on paper. This work is grounded in real clinical training and built around the specific cultures, contexts, and pressures your people are navigating every day.
Clinically informed. Culturally rooted.
Built around your people’s actual lives.
AAMFT
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Inside Track
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SimplePractice
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Reach Beyond
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Verizon
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Vonage
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AAMFT ● Inside Track ● SimplePractice ● Reach Beyond ● Verizon ● Vonage ●
What I Do
Workshops & Training
My workshops are built to create real shifts, not just spark a good conversation that fades by the following Monday. Every session is customized to your team’s culture, context, and goals using my signature frameworks and delivered in a way that’s practical enough to use immediately and grounded enough to last. Available in-person and virtually, from a single 75-minute session to a multi-part series designed for sustained, measurable change.
Content & Learning Partnerships
If you serve an audience that needs more than a one-time event, let’s build something together. I’ve partnered with leading platforms, membership organizations, and mission-driven brands to develop webinar series, podcast content, curriculum, and on-demand learning that outlasts the live moment. You bring the audience; I bring the clinical expertise, cultural fluency, and creative thinking.
Facilitation & Community Programs
For organizations whose communities are doing sustained, high-stakes work, a single workshop won’t cut it. I design and facilitate ongoing programs, monthly or quarterly touchpoints, cohort experiences, and grounding sessions woven into your existing initiative rather than dropped on top of it. I also develop the supporting materials so your team isn’t carrying the weight of continuity alone.
Leadership Retreats & Offsites
These are not team-building exercises. Leadership retreats with Esther B. Consulting are fully designed, immersive experiences that ground your strategy in the human capacity required to execute it. From a half-day Leadership Day to a fully managed multi-day executive retreat, every element — agenda, facilitation, wellness activations, and post-retreat integration — is handled so your leaders can arrive fully present.
What People Are Saying
“Esther was nothing shy of amazing. I highly recommend her to any organization that invests in the well-being of its people.”
Tajuana L. Selby, Sr. Manager — Vonage
“Securing Esther as a keynote for the Systemic Family Therapy Conference was a truly outstanding choice. Her message resonated deeply with our attendees, leaving them with invaluable insights.”
Melanie Gibson, Chief Operating Officer — AAMFT
“Esther was recommended to me, and she did not disappoint. She led a conversation that everyone could relate to and gave us tools we can all use on a daily basis.”
Tanisha Rodriguez, Director of Diversity — Deluxe Media
“Esther gave our team language for aspects of work and life that are hard to name, and real tools to support their own self-compassion.
She’s spoken to our organization two years in a row and continues to leave us feeling heard, seen, and validated.”
Anna Kern, Senior Lead Trainer — InsideTrack
Getting Started
Most partnerships begin with a conversation, and I mean that literally.
We get on a call, talk through what’s happening in your organization, what you’ve tried, what you’re hoping to change, and figure out together whether this is the right fit.
There are no cookie-cutter packages and no pressure to commit before you’re ready. If it’s a match, we design something built specifically for your people.
About Me
I’m Esther Boykin, a licensed therapist turned author, cultural wellness strategist, and TEDx speaker with 23 years of clinical expertise and 16 years running a multi-clinician practice. I’ve worked with organizations from SimplePractice to Vonage, delivered keynotes at AAMFT and Psychotherapy Networker, and spent two decades learning exactly what it takes for people to sustain meaningful, demanding work without losing themselves in the process.
This is not a side interest. It’s the through-line of everything I do.
