Career Counselling and Coaching in Peterborough, Ontario.

Everyone has gifts they were born with. Through various therapeutic modalities including expressive art therapy and mindfulness, I help guide individuals through an inward self exploration of these gifts. I will also help you to clarify and work towards your "best life," that is visioning your ideal work-life, relationship-life, family-life and social-life.

I can provide strategies for you to find new or different employment successfully. I'm not only a registered psychotherapist but I'm also a success coach. I have a PhD in leadership and policy and a background in business. I've had many jobs and careers from modelling, personal training, to a Bell operator and a Purolator driver. I've been in retail sales, and sold photocopies, PR, and software. I've been a teacher of primary/junior students, and professor in sales, and a professor in graduate education. I have owned a restaurant, and a tutoring company. I am sure I have missed something! I'm reinventing myself once again looking to be an author! Let me help you find your way!

I help clients with addictive behaviours or substance use that is interfering with their ability to achieve a fulfilling career. Through collaborative conversations, clients gain a sense of purpose and direction, overcoming barriers to making meaningful progress in their professional life. Gaining a sense of control over one's life allows for increased confidence and self-esteem. I help clients build the motivation necessary to take steps toward a future filled with passion, thriving, and mental resilliance.

In our career exploration, we may use techniques such as free association, dream analysis, and transference to help you uncover underlying motivations, fears, and desires related to your career. By examining patterns of behaviour, recurring themes, and emotional reactions in the counselling sessions, you can gain insight into why you are drawn to specific professions, struggle with certain job-related challenges, or feel unfulfilled in your current work.

Your chosen career path is a reflection of where you want to go and what you want to accomplish in your lifetime. However, due to physical, mental, economic, familial, or emotional limitations, among others, it is possible that you may feel you are unable to work towards your desired career path. Additionally, it is possible that you may be unaware of what your career path might be. In career therapy, we will explore your interests, desires, strengths and challenges, your spirituality, education level and social, political or economical limitations, to discover what work might be meaningful, suitable and fruitful for you. We will then create a plan to work towards your desired career path.

Finding a career that works for you is more than a job, it is about finding what lights you up, what motivates you, what you feel confident in, where you feel most free to be yourself. Or perhaps it is finding a path that fits with your lifestyle. Often we feel stuck, creatively blocked or trapped and cannot see a way out or a way to transition or we might struggle with not feeling good enough or confusion. I am here to support you through all these feelings, to work with you to find hope for the future and your potential in it.

In my career counselling, I address burnout and workplace stress by aligning clients' jobs with their values and needs, using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, and Somatic Experiencing. We explore emotional and physical responses to work, identifying dissatisfaction sources. This insight helps us consider career transitions that better match personal goals, enhancing job satisfaction and fulfillment. This strategic approach aims to create a more rewarding and nourishing professional life for clients.