Career Counselling and Coaching in Don Mills, Ontario.

Feeling stuck, burnt out, or unsure about your next step? Career counselling isn’t just for job seekers—it’s for anyone navigating change, clarity, or confidence in their work life. Whether you’re questioning your current path, facing workplace stress, or wanting to align your career with your values, we help you explore your strengths, passions, and possibilities. At Rooted in Resilience, we offer culturally attuned support for racialized professionals and those navigating identity in the workplace. Together, we’ll uncover what fulfillment looks like for you—and build a roadmap to get there.

Even the thought of building a career can feel overwhelming and it can be difficult to know where to start. While I do not offer support regarding career counselling, at Psychotherapy Collective, our online clinic, we have therapists who are available to offer a free 15-minute consultation to see if they are the right fit for your journey. Visit https://www.psychotherapycollective.ca/our-team/therapist/usman-khan

Career challenges can bring stress, uncertainty, and self-doubt. In our sessions, I provide a supportive space to explore your goals, values, and strengths. Together, we’ll identify obstacles, clarify direction, and develop practical strategies for growth and success. My approach combines evidence-based techniques with a person-centered focus, helping you build confidence, make informed decisions, and create a career path that aligns with your purpose and well-being.

Kindred Hope Wellness' team assists clients working through career transitions by discussing professional stresses, passions, and motivations in regard to their careers. Another focus is how work impacts all individuals' daily life and relationship. Our team's approach is in building strategies, skills, motivations, and others that suit each client's needs. The goal is for the client to see what path they truly want to take in their career and clients will benefit in feeling a better sense of balance between professional and personal life.

If you are undecided, anxious or confused about your next educational and/or career direction, working with me can help you clarity and gain knowledge about your unique “career profile “and specific careers and/or educational options that are in line with your personality, interests, skills, abilities, academic achievements, values, and goals (and the situation on the labour market). I am certified to administer and interpret vocational and career testing instruments.

Art therapy and counselling support individuals navigating career questions, transitions, or uncertainty. Creative and reflective processes can help clarify values, identity, strengths, and direction, particularly during periods of change or burnout. Therapy provides space to explore both practical concerns and deeper questions around meaning, purpose, and alignment in work and life.

A career is more than just a way to pay the bills. Every person spends most of their life in their careers and the career satisfaction/non-satisfaction spills over to the person’s personal life, too. However, there are many variables that can lead to career dissatisfaction. It can be the environment, interpersonal relationships, the skills and talents required for the job, and ultimately the person’s view of the job. A successful career counselling helps the client to take a closer look at these variables and to tackle the issues that lead to an unhealthy career life. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if we are a good fit.

My approach to helping clients in the area of work and career often relates to interpersonal problems in employment settings, difficulties managing work-life balance, and questions surrounding changing careers. Often clients come in with concerns around how to make changes to their employment situation, and they have various anxieties surrounding the risk that comes with making these life changes. In treatment, I help clients address their anxieties and fears, and we work together to seek solutions.

Navigating career decisions and challenges can be complex and stressful. I provide career counselling to help you clarify your goals, explore career options, and overcome obstacles in your professional life. Using a combination of evidence-based strategies and personalized guidance, we’ll work together to identify your strengths, passions, and career aspirations. Whether you're seeking a career change, facing job-related stress, or looking to advance in your current role, I’m here to support you in achieving your career goals. Reach out to schedule a free 15-minute consultation to start exploring your professional path.

So many people are locked into jobs that leach motivation out of them rather than empowering continued growth and capitalizing on a healthy level of engagement. In my work with careers, I often ask tough questions and expect serious consideration of all the alternatives available to you. We'll work to establish outcomes and put our heads together to map out a plan for you that will make the most of your transferable skills and career objectives. In a sense, my approach is a career focused form of life coaching that aims to keep you moving forward while you work to recognize what you really want for yourself and exactly how you are going to make that happen in the real world.

Burnout can leave you feeling depleted, unmotivated, and questioning everything-from your career path to your sense of self. In our work together, we’ll make space to unpack the stress, overwhelm, and pressure you’ve been carrying, and explore what truly matters to you. Clients often say they feel more clear-headed, validated, and empowered to make intentional choices - whether that means setting better boundaries, redefining success, or navigating a career shift. You don’t have to stay stuck; therapy can help you reconnect with purpose and find a way forward that actually works for you.

Career challenges often bring stress, self-doubt, and confusion about direction or purpose. In my work, I offer a supportive space where clients can explore their strengths, values, and meaning in relation to work. Using a trauma-informed, Gestalt and somatic approach, we pay attention to practical goals and emotional experiences, including fears, blocks, and inner conflicts. I help clients clarify priorities, build confidence, and recognize patterns that may affect career decisions. Together, we develop realistic steps aligned with their authentic self. Through this process, clients often gain clarity, motivation, and a stronger sense of direction and professional fulfillment.

Dr. Strauss offers career counseling through New Leaf Psychology Centre. In order to facilitate decision making, sessions will first assess your current skills, assets and interests. Your level of fulfillment at your current place of work, and obstacles to fulfillment will also be discussed. Potential career changes will be reviewed, with the goal of helping you come to a decision that you are comfortable with.