Healthy Pour is an organizational consultancy focused on improving the mental health and well-being of the individuals in the workplace.
Healthy Pour's mission is to help organizations and professional communities transform and grow so their members are better off than when they started.
Healthy Pour’s Core Values
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Curiosity
When examining something, be it an emotion we feel, an experience we have, data we’ve collected, or observations we make, we are driven by curiosity. In Healthy Pour spaces, we seek to approach our experiences without judgement while emphasizing and encouraging a desire to learn, understand, and grow.
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Security
In order to learn, grow, and thrive, we require safety, stability, and security. In Healthy Pour spaces, we value and promote clear communication, fair compensation, and healthy attachments, where individuals feel unburdened by fear and scarcity, and can thrive with abundance.
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Compassion
It’s natural and understandable to do whatever we can to avoid painful and challenging emotions, but as human beings who live human lives, they’re inevitable. In Healthy Pour spaces, compassion replaces avoidance when approaching challenging situations, both for ourselves and for others.
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Integrity
Sometimes we compromise ourselves to conform to a culture or avoid accountability. In Healthy Pour spaces, we uphold our truth without compromising our morals or ourselves. The entirety of an experience, feeling, identity, culture and truth is invited, encouraged, and warmly accepted—shadows and all.
Our Commitment to Equity & Belonging
Much, if not all of Healthy Pour is rooted in the pursuit of psychological safety, both within the organization and as a working framework. In order for spaces to be truly psychologically safe, conditions of the environment must exist to ensure individuals feel wholly secure to bring their entire selves to the work. Without an ongoing and consistent commitment to fostering belonging, individuals are asked to fracture themselves in order to conform and appease an oppressive narrative.
Healthy Pour considers this fracturing to be violence.
This fracturing is the result of racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, xenophobia, ableism, and countless other ways human beings oppress and harm other human beings in order to gain and retain power.
At the core of our work together, you’ll find that simply composing a team of individuals who do not look the same isn’t a marker of inclusion: in our work, diverse perspectives and voices are deeply celebrated, valued, and pursued. Inclusivity and accountability are woven into everything that Healthy Pour does, and while no organization is perfect, we are deeply committed to continuing to seek out ways to make the spaces we create and impact as psychologically safe as possible.
Healthy Pour also acknowledges a long history of violence and oppression not only in hospitality and its adjacent industries, but in the mental health and psychological fields. Healthy Pour actively works to decolonize the mental health space and makes it a common, everyday practice to question and challenge the oppressive norms of Eurocentric and neurotypical mental health care in order to remove systems that cause harm and trauma and insert practices that cultivate healing.
With that, Healthy Pour is always open to feedback. This organization will undoubtedly make mistakes and cause harm, particularly because this work requires innovation which will inherently result in some failure, but the work we do together is reliant on taking accountability and developing systems to prevent further harm and work towards healing.
Please feel free to reach out with questions, concerns, ideas, or anything else you’d be generous enough to share with us at info@healthypour.org
Hi, I’m Laura Louise Green.
(she/her/they)
I’m a psychotherapist, organizational consultant, and the founder of Healthy Pour. After working in creative, professional, and precarious industries for two decades, I’m happy to utilize my knowledge and skills as a trained mental health professional to facilitate training, growth, and healing within the workplace. I hope to create safer and healthier environments than what I’ve witnessed and experienced because it’s important to me to leave people, environments, and things better than how I found them.
Shortly after receiving my license to practice as a psychotherapist, the death of Anthony Bourdain prompted me to turn my sights on the hospitality industry to provide free psychoeducation to the community at large. This psychoeducation eventually transformed and evolved into Healthy Pour, a consultancy that helps organizations and professional communities address issues of well-being in the workplace. Since then, Healthy Pour has expanded to service all workspaces and industries, with a fondness for creative, high-pressure, and precarious careers and working environments.
My work is rooted in employing evidence-based interventions and theory through a critical lens, and my research interests are socio-emotional stress at work (burnout, imposter syndrome, etc.) and trauma's influence on career decisions in precarious, creative industries. I studied at DePaul University, earning a Master of Education in community counseling, and am currently studying for a Master of Science in Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London in the School of Business, Economics, and Informatics with plans to continue my academic career in occupational health and well-being. I proudly still frequently provide free seminars for the hospitality industry.
Feel free to look through my CV to better understand my background (though it certainly needs some updating!), or reach out for more information if you have questions. I’d love to hear from you!
FAQs
What kind of business is Healthy Pour?
Healthy Pour is a Low-profit Limited Liability Corporation (L3C). A L3C is a hybrid business model of a non-profit organization and for profit Limited Liability Corporation. This means that we can operate the business independently without a board but still prioritize mission over profit. This business designation also gives us access to certain grants and funding opportunities that other for profit entities don’t have.
That being said, if you donate to Healthy Pour, it’s not tax-deductible (which is why we do have non-profit partners we can direct you to). BUT. If you’re a private, non-operating foundation looking to donate, we are set up to accept that donation.
Is Laura a Social Worker?
Nope! I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), licensed in the state of Illinois in the United States. Counselors and social workers have similar jobs and similar educational pathways, so this is a common misconception. Counselors are trained to have a deep understanding of human behavior in order to practice as therapists in clinical settings, many of whom also provide consultation (like me). Social workers are train to be able to provide a wider range of services and study human behavior as well as public and social policy. Clinical social workers and counselors, however, are both clinical therapists.
What does it meant to be a Licensed Professional Counselor? Is Laura a Psychologist?
A counselor, in the United States, is someone who is trained, credentialed, and licensed to provides mental health therapy to individuals, families, and groups. Counselors, if they choose to, are able to diagnose mental health disorders and accept insurance, but cannot prescribe medication. A counselor’s approach is is holistic in the sense that the individual’s or groups entire experience is taken into account including social determinants, family, relationships, work, and development.
The word psychologist covers quite a few occupations (including experimental, organizational, social) but even though some psychologists provide therapy (clinical psychologists), counselors are not psychologists. Like clinical social work, there is quite a lot of overlap in terms of education, approach, theory, and methodology, and while clinical social workers, clinical psychologists, and mental health counselors all provide therapy, that pathways to get there are different. It’s worth noting that there isn’t a title or profession that is better or worse than the others, and usually the difference in practice is so slight that it’s unnoticeable.