Career Counseling and Coaching in Coronado, California.

Are you stuck in your job or career and wondering about a change? Feeling as though your natural talents are not being used? Maybe you want changes yet are fearful of taking a risk. Often it is out of this 'stuckness' that opportunities arise. Going it alone is not necessary. I can join you on your journey of exploring your strengths and dreams as you make important decisions!

We spend most of our day working so what we do to earn a living has a big effect on how much we enjoy life. I can help you take a look at your motivations and passions as well as your gifts and abilities to enable you to choose a career that provides meaning and enjoyment as well as income. I provide some coaching as you research fields of interest to get you started in finding a new career.

Our careers make up a major part of our life. Careers can be pivotal for creating happiness in life or creating the opposite. In earlier days, people found their first job after high school or college and stayed in that job for the rest of their life. In past decades, the “one job for life” has evolved into six to ten job changing and career changing episodes. Every job change and career change often leads to anxiety, depression, fears, interview panic, lack of self-esteem, lack of self-confidence, somatic reactions and a devastating feeling that includes a lack of self-worth. Being fired and being hired revolve around rejection and the strive to be accepted. Career counseling works to make the above issues more tolerable and rational. It is directed...(view profile to read more)

Work is an enormously important part of our lives. As is often said, we spend more hours of our lives at work than anywhere else. So making that work as good as it can be is vitally important to our health, sanity, and general well-being. Yet that, like so many things, can be easier said than done. I can help you explore your upbringing and education, your personal values, needs, and desires, along with ambitions and fears to help you find and succeed along a well-chosen professional path. This kind of support and guidance is just as important for someone just embarking on a career as it is for someone well along the path. It's never too late to take control of your direction.

Careers are integral to the identities of many people, while for others careers are simply means for attaining a happy life. Whether you’re developing your first career or looking to switch careers, I use a combination of assessment batteries and counseling to explore my clients’ goals, preferences, and aptitudes to identify their career path and develop a plan for achieving it.

The right career is available for everyone. Career counseling consists of finding meaningful work that you are passionate about and that can comfortably support you and your family. Career counseling involves a process of self-discovery. Within career counseling you will identify occupations that match your interests through career assessments. The career assessment will evaluate your strengths and skills. As a career counselor, I will assist you in developing a career plan that will help you choose your career of interest and develop your skills and experience in your chosen career to land the career of your dreams.

Contemplating leaving your field behind? Impostor syndrome got you down? Are you experiencing burnout, but love your field? Or have you always hated working and need to figure out how to make it work? Where to start... where to start? In therapy with me, you'll learn how small steps bring relief, reassurance and purpose back to your work life. Therapy is a collaborative experience and we'll hone in on the areas that are preventing you from meeting your goals and keeping you from experiencing your life more fully.

While most career counselors love to give you capacity based profiles of what your talents and interests are for your best bet career choices, Grey Matters international believes that most people make predictably irrational decisions and then after making them learn way to make them fit into their identities using various types of rationalizations and strategies. We are able to assist folks in career counseling type settings by giving a deeper look at their decision making profile so they can better understand where the core frustration or desire is coming from in the world of work. Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.

Work stress is now a major factor in mental health. It can raise your anxiety or drag you into depression. This is a time to get support from a professional. I'll help you build a survival plan, to minimize the impact on your health. In our changing economy, many people find they no longer enjoy job security. Some discover they are suddenly working as independent contractors, self-employed for the first time. Our career is an important part of our identity. There are many factors to consider, and choices to be made. I'll show you research based tools to help you make the big decisions. Be encouraged - six months from now you may enjoy a much improved work life. Let's make a plan!

If you are having a hard time adjusting to what's happening with the coronavirus economic shutdown, worrying about your future, and need support and some helpful dialogue, I think I can really help. As we are all adjusting to working from home or unemployment, it may be challenging to remember our strengths and talents when everything out there feels threatening. I can help you regain a sense of direction and confidence.

Clients seeking career counseling are usually seeking more than an increase in their income and benefits package. They are often seeking a path to identify and express their life’s purpose professionally (and personally). In our collaboration, clients and I identify their core values and creative options. Also, together we uncover conscious and unconscious “cognitive constructs” that undermine the active pursuit of their ideal career. Finally, we collaboratively design a flexible plan that embraces their life’s purpose, while cultivating insight, skill and the daily commitment needed to attain a professional (and personal) path that will give them the most intrinsic satisfaction.

A wise person once told me, "Find something you love to do and find someone to pay you to do it." But the reality is that many people find themselves in careers they don't enjoy or lose the career they did enjoy. Whether you are disatisfied with your career, dealing with work related stress, or wondering what you are going to do next, counseling can provide a framework for you to work through the dissonance in your work life and get on the path of meaningful fulfillment with regards to your work or career, regardless of what stage in your life you are at.