Workplace Wellness
“The trees are really talking to each other. They’re sharing food. They’re helping their neighbors. They're forming communities. They’re stronger together.”
— Suzanne Simard
At SYNERGY HEALTH CONSULTING, we believe workplace wellness starts with the individual. Self-awareness is the foundation of employee well-being and trauma-informed care. When we learn to recognize our own biases and engage in honest, collaborative conversations with our teammates, we build the skills to do the same with our patients, community partners, and those with differing perspectives. This leads to healthier teams, reduced stigma, and an enhanced ability to support those facing complex challenges.
We work with organizations:
Foster Employee Self-Awareness & Well-Being
Develop strategies that promote physical, emotional, and mental health, with a focus on cultivating self-awareness as the foundation for well-being. We guide teams to build a culture of self-care, respect, and work-life balance.
Building Trust and Navigating Difficult Conversations
Empower leaders and staff with the tools to support themselves and their teams by acknowledging our shared humanity and the increasingly blurred lines between personal and professional lives. This training helps participants recognize what emotions or reactions are surfacing, understand the role of self-awareness in effective communication, and foster positive connections with teammates, clients, and patients. Grounded in trauma-informed care, this approach begins with self-awareness and encourages leading with empathy, vulnerability, and openness.
Strengthen Organizational Resilience
Provide guidance on policies and training that reduce burnout, improve engagement, and nurture a resilient, supportive community. By starting with the self, we help foster a workplace culture where both individuals and the organization can thrive.
Our Team
Nadejda Razi Robertson, PhD, LCSW
Dr. Nadejda Razi Robertson is a behavioral health consultant, licensed clinical social worker, and strategic facilitator with over 20 years of experience working across healthcare, public health, and community-based systems. She is the founder and lead consultant of Synergy Health Consulting, where she supports organizations in strengthening care delivery, workforce resilience, and cross-sector collaboration.
Nadejda brings a unique combination of clinical expertise and systems-level thinking. She maintains an active clinical practice and has deep experience working with individuals impacted by trauma, substance use disorders, chronic pain, and complex behavioral health needs. This clinical grounding informs her work with organizations, ensuring that strategy and operations remain connected to the realities of patient care.
Her consulting work focuses on strategic planning, leadership coaching, and organizational and behavioral health consultation. She partners with executive leaders, boards, and frontline teams to improve alignment, clarify decision-making, and build practical, implementable strategies. She is particularly skilled in facilitating complex conversations, helping groups navigate differing perspectives, and developing shared direction across stakeholders.
Nadejda has led and overseen numerous statewide and county-level initiatives in Oregon, including opioid response planning, substance use disorder care coordination, and workforce development efforts. Her work includes close collaboration with FQHCs, health systems, public health departments, and community organizations to improve integrated care and expand access to effective treatment.
In addition to her consulting work, Nadejda provides leadership coaching to healthcare executives, clinical leaders, and multidisciplinary teams. Her coaching focuses on strengthening communication, supporting decision-making under pressure, and building resilient, effective teams.
Across all of her work, Nadejda is known for her ability to translate complex challenges into clear, actionable steps—helping organizations move from discussion to meaningful, sustained change.
Denise Acker, Operations Specialist
Denise Acker is an experienced strategy and operations contractor with a strong background in coordination, communications, public health, and multi-disciplinary collaboration. With extensive experience working across counties in Oregon, Denise played a pivotal role in collaboratively developing the state’s opioid crisis response plan by teaming with cross-county workgroups and subject matter experts to identify drug overdose trends, resources needed, and intervention plans. She compiled statewide best practices for developing drug overdose task forces, implementing emergency response strategies, and connecting to statewide harm reduction and prevention resources into the OHA-funded Drug Overdose Outbreak Plan Guidebook to assist Oregon counties in developing interagency emergency response plans that intercept and prevent drug overdoses.
Denise has worked alongside frontline, direct service healthcare professionals on multiple coordinated public health efforts aimed at addressing the complex challenges of social determinants of health, trauma, and substance use. She currently supports county-wide strategic planning and implementation efforts to advance healthcare accessibility and delivery through process development, needs assessing, data analysis, and reporting.
Denise works closely with Dr. Nadejda Razi Robertson to deliver operations and project management support to multi-faceted consulting and coaching endeavors led by Dr. Robertson.
Our Workplace Wellness Consultant Collaborators
Amanda Singh Bans, MA, MSW, LCSW (she/her)
Amanda Singh Bans is a mixed-race, cisgender, AuDHD, queer woman of color with ancestral roots in Zacatecas and Chihuahua, Mexico; Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India; Germany; and England. A licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and DEI consultant based in Portland, Oregon, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, she is the founder of Resonance LLC, dedicated to fostering psychological safety in the workplace. Amanda brings extensive experience in trauma-informed relational therapy, supporting clients impacted by intimate partner violence, sexual trauma, narcissistic abuse, childhood abuse, ADHD, Autism, Complex PTSD, and racial trauma. Her work centers the intersection of race with other identities—such as gender, sexuality, class, and geography—and she is especially passionate about supporting multiracial and monoracial people of color navigating cultural dislocation. Through both individual and organizational work, Amanda helps create inclusive, emotionally resilient, and compassionate spaces where people feel seen, heard, and empowered.
Elizabeth Bunten, MS
Elizabeth Bunten brings a multifaceted background in leadership, business, and facilitation. With early roots in family-owned enterprises and professional experience as a therapist, she has cultivated a career that bridges personal development and organizational growth. She has co-facilitated with master coaches, renowned speakers, and respected leaders, consistently deepening her focus on self-leadership. Her work today centers on coaching, speaking, and teaching at the intersection of trauma-informed somatic embodiment, the rewriting of personal narratives and beliefs, and the innate human capacity for resilience and compassion.
Elissa Denton, LCSW
Elissa Denton is a clinician, coach, and consultant who believes that once we learn to see things differently, we can’t help but do differently. As the owner of Alchemy Therapy, Coaching, & Consulting, she supports individuals in recognizing and changing patterns, helps professionals and leaders bridge the gap between their present and desired future, and guides organizations in optimizing how they support their most valuable asset: people. Elissa created Centerpoint’s Leadership Foundations Series for emerging leaders and consults with frontline agencies, such as fire districts and healthcare systems, to enhance mental health and resilience. Her expertise has supported those facing critical incidents, including ICU workers during COVID-19 and U.S. Capitol staff after the January 6th attack. Known for catalyzing powerful breakthroughs, Elissa’s clients often express profound transformation through her work. A mother of two toddlers, she balances professional passion with family adventures, from biking and cooking to cross-country road trips.
Lucy Flood, MA
Lucy Flood is a writer, consultant, and co-founder of Write to Thrive, a reflective and creative writing-based enterprise that promotes wellness, engagement, and joyful, intentional living through research-backed expressive writing practices for individuals and professional communities. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, InsideClimate News, and other outlets, and she has led writing workshops for Writers in the Park, the University of Texas at Austin, and Bay Area professionals. Drawing on expertise in mindfulness, self-compassion, yoga, and the science of happiness, Lucy supports creative professionals and teams in igniting their creativity and flourishing in work and life. She holds a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from UT Austin, and was awarded an environmental journalism fellowship from Middlebury College. Based in Colorado with her husband and child, she often writes under the grapevine in her garden. Through Write to Thrive, which she co-founded with Matt Daly, Lucy offers research-backed writing practices that promote wellness, engagement, and joyful, intentional living.
Nathan Olson, MSW, QMHP, CADC III
Nathan Olson is a seasoned consultant and clinician with deep expertise at the intersection of mental health, criminal justice, and community services. In both his private practice and leadership roles—including as a Clinical Director in the non-profit sector—he has developed and enhanced programs such as Problem Gambling Services, Forensics Outpatient Treatment, DUII, and the Domestic Abuse Awareness Program (DAAP). Nathan collaborates with treatment and justice organizations to strengthen service delivery and improve outcomes for individuals facing behavioral health challenges. As an On-PACE instructor with OnTrack Rogue Valley, he provides training in trauma-informed care, resiliency, and recovery models. As the founder of Brave-Heart Therapy, Nathan provides a trauma/resilience-informed approach to therapy along with coaching, mentoring and ongoing support for therapists launching their practice. His work is driven by a commitment to expanding access to care and supporting recovery through meaningful, systemic change.
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