Career Counseling and Coaching in Paramount, California.

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.

Trying to find the right career can be a daunting, stressful endeavor. Using psychoanalytic techniques, I work with clients to establish an understanding of strengths and character that facilitates an ability to work toward making an informed and grounded choice of career. Furthermore, by beginning with insight, clients also develop key skills to manage conflict while at work and to overcome stumbling blocks to creativity and productivity.

Prior to my work as a therapist, I spent many years as a successful business professional. This background brings an experienced, practical perspective to my clients. I offer career coaching to address work-related issues such as changing work environment, increased demands, role transitions, work stress, and interpersonal challenges in the workplace.

Counseling can help you explore alternatives related to goal strategy and achievement Dr. Larry Kuhn, and the other Counselors at Prepare to Change, help individuals define how they want their lives to be different and identify the steps that will help them reach their goals. If you’re looking to bring improvement or change into your career direction or other area, counseling may be a good option for you.

I believe we are supposed to learn and grow throughout our lives and that our careers grow and progress with us. There can be so much anxiety and fear when trying to chose a career, deciding whether to stay in a career, or struggling with challenges (and people) in your chosen career. My goal is to help you get grounded in your beliefs, values, and priorities so that you can feel confident about the choices you are making. I want to help you learn how to reduce burnout, stop second guessing yourself, and find excitement again.

How recent in history is the idea of a personal career? How universal is the importance of having a career or does it depend on where you live in the world? Here in the United States, we are so driven to succeed that it is difficult to stop and consider not only what it is that we are striving for and why, but also ask ourselves who's dreams are we chasing? Do the goals that we have established for ourselves reflect our personal ethics? Do we truly desire the things we are working so hard for? These are some of the questions that I will be asking you in order to help you begin to contemplate the impetus behind your actions and how it is connected to a larger context.

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.

Rising costs of gas, housing, food, insurance, and the high competition for available jobs is forcing many young people to spend their 20's still sharing their parent's home. I help non-college bound teens combine their life experience with their passion to develop a vision of a career they would enjoy. I help young adults who are considering returning to college brainstorm about next steps and develop an action plan.

Your 20s and 30s can be challenging in regards to career and relationships. You may enter a profession only to find that it doesn't suit your nature and interests. It's okay to change your course in seeking the right fit, your niche. Don't let society determine the rules for what is appropriate career exploration. Its okay to change your mind. Don't be afraid to test new waters. Lets explore those waters together so you don't drown in the wrong profession. If you are returning to the workforce after raising your children, I can help you regain confidence. I myself re-entered the workforce after being a stay-at-home mom for 11 years.

Feeling discouraged or dissatisfied with work can be stressful and confusing. It can be difficult to know what steps to take to find fulfillment and satisfaction. Talking with a trained professional can help you sort out your feelings, wants, needs, and options. In the safety of a therapy relationship, you can process through what might have felt overwhelming before and find empowerment, motivation, and hope.

The approach that I use is to use current on line career tests/assesments available for people by integrating Myers-Briggs theory and levels of interests and passions when it comes to finding a proper career. As they take these tests and assessment, I then use a few books such as "Now, Discover your Strengths" as a way to help people integrate their gifts, talents, interests, passions and desires so that they feel that they can succeed in life.

Although my title is a Marriage and Family Therapist and not a Career Counselor I do provide support for clients that are exploring their life path which many times includes their career. My approach is to work with each client to formulate their own goals and to create a plan to get there. Together we work on identifying barriers and how mental health may play a part in reaching one's goals. Although I am not a career counselor, I can work with a client short term if that is what the desired outcome is.

How would you like to not only KNOW what you want to be doing, but then be coached in finding "Your Ideal Job"? And what if you could have this in 60 days??? We have a proven method that works for 92% of all those who use our technique--and it doesn't matter what the economy is doing! Not everyone will qualify for this kind of coaching, however. Call today and see if YOU qualify to receive direction on "How to Land the Job That's Perfect For You" ! ! !