Career Counseling and Coaching in Encinitas, California.

Career Counseling is frequently a component of exploring life transitions, identity issues, and other adjustments to life changes. Making career changes based on an understanding of one's temperament, ways of relating, and strengths affects the likelihood of making successful choices about a career and job. Career and job are an integral part of satisfaction and happiness in life and therapy can assist you in taking off in a direction that fits you as an individual.

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.

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)

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.

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!