Services

Here is a list of issues that regularly come up in career counselling.  ​If you're struggling with something that isn't listed, please call me to discuss. This list mainly focuses on issues that regularly come up in career counselling.

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Decision-Making Support 

• Figuring out if you can live with or make peace with your current situation
• Figuring out if you can trust yourself after making a bad career decision (or what feels like one)
• Getting support with overcoming automatic reactions (like analysis paralysis, fight, flight, freeze, fawn and flop) that interfere with making decisions 
• Getting support with what leads you to be indecisive (I keep a running list of things that hold people back and I'm up to 30+ reasons) 
• Figuring out if you should stay in your current industry or change careers
• Figuring out if you should stay in your current role or change jobs 
• Figuring out how you should navigate having kids and advancing your career 
• Figuring out if you should quit or go on stress leave

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"Sheltering in Place"

• In economically uncertain times, people often feel trapped in jobs they can't afford to leave (very similar to people who stay in unhappy marriages due to financial constraints). Career counselling can help you figure out how to improve your situation while you're "sheltering in place" due to market conditions 

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​Job Readiness 

• Identifying ways & getting practice with over-riding very powerful automatic reactions (fight, flight, freeze, fawn and flop) that interfere with sustaining efforts while looking for work, preparing job applications and interviewing 

• Learning how to avoid making career decisions based on fear, desperation or discouragement

• Learning how to describe yourself & career highlights with more confidence (less shame and fear of highly critical responses)  

• Learning how to navigate unwelcome & difficult questions about your career 

• Learning how to trust yourself again after ending up in difficult workplace situations 

• Learning how to pay attention to red flags instead of ignoring them 

• Learning how to write tailored job applications 

• Learning to get more comfortable about putting yourself out there & making connections (networking at large events isn't the only way)  

• Negotiating Job Offers

• Understanding the unwritten rules in workplace culture​​

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Career Exploration ​

• Identifying career preferences (work tasks, work conditions & work outcomes) 

• Identifying strengths & transferrable skills

• Identifying & evaluate potential career paths 

• Understanding job markets

• Learning how to connect with what you want when you've spent most of your career doing what you think you should do or what others have told or encouraged you to do

• Identifying career paths that work with how your brain operates (some people can't stay in one job for a lifetime and can't imagine sitting at a computer all day, every day)

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Education Support ​

• Support with evaluating & choosing education programs 

• Support with writing admissions applications (it's a lot like resumes)  

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​​Career Advancement & Advocating for Self 

• Understanding unwritten rules and preferred ways of doing things 

• Building professional confidence & relevant skills 

• Support with speaking up, getting noticed (hard work usually isn't enough)

• Understanding management priorities & getting good assignments or projects

• Preparing for and making the most of performance reviews

• Negotiating Raises (and other forms of compensation)​​​​​

• Connecting with people who can support your career

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Crisis Management 

• Getting past resentment and giving too much at work

• Navigating situations at work that have deteriorated significantly or become untenable

• Dealing with negative performance reviews or major mistakes

• Bullying, gaslighting, overly critical management & discrimination

• Re-building confidence

• Navigating workplace affairs 

• Staying in role after rounds of lay-offs

• Staying in role when managers change or during significant organizational changes 

• Support before and after getting fired, laid-off or silently pushed out

• Support during short/long term leave & return to work process

• Support with difficult relationships with leaders, managers or co-workers 

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Career Breaks 

• Dealing with nerves or dread before/after parental leave

• Returning to work after significant career breaks ​​​