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.

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.

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!

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.

Are you a helping professional who is struggling with burnout? People who devote their lives to helping other people face unique on-the-job challenges. I help therapists, pastors, teachers and other helping professionals to learn how to practice healthy self-care and set effective boundaries so that they are able to thrive. Call me at 760 566-5513 and let me know how I can help you.