Career Counselling

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Career counselling is where you can have dedicated therapy sessions with career guidance to help and support you with all things related to your career. Our thoughts, feelings and overall well-being seeps into all areas of our relationships including our working life and how we think and feel about our career. 

Working with a Psychotherapist for career counselling will mean you will be able to explore your feelings, vulnerabilities and discomforts related to your work in a safe, non-judgemental and supportive space. This is so that you can achieve what you want to achieve without experiencing overwhelming emotions on your own. If you experience feelings where you don’t feel good enough, especially when needing to represent yourself and your skills positively on a CV, when completing job applications or verbally during interviews as examples, working with a professional to help and guide you with these steps will feel less daunting than doing it on your own. I am here to help you through this. 

Career counselling can cover many things related to how you feel about work. A few examples of what this means and how it can help you are as follows:

• Starting new in the corporate world, in a new role or as an apprentice, and getting help and support with how to manage your relationships in the work place and during social occasions. 
• Working through challenging working relationships, understanding why and how they happen so that you can improve them. 
• Performance anxiety and how to manage this in the workplace.
• Depression and understanding how to manage your self-care for it.
• Bullying in the workplace and how to feel supported whilst coping through it.
• Anger management and what to do to help yourself through it.
• Feeling overwhelmed with your workload and needing help to organise and prioritise your work lists.
• Setting up or growing your self-employed business and what to do to make it work for you.
• Feeling like you are in the wrong job and getting support to know where to start to create change.
• Wanting a career change and needing help and support to make a plan to start.
• The possibilities to work on what you want are endless, because your potential to learn and grow from career counselling depends on what you choose to bring to your sessions. Everything from you is welcome.

The examples above if dealt by yourself can make your working life uncomfortable, and you may feel like what you are doing is meaningless or it’s not helping you to fulfil your purpose. This can affect your work productivity with all aspects of your work, like taking part in meetings to managing projects and people. 

Most of us have an inner critical voice that can be damaging to the relationship we build with ourselves. It can stop us from doing and achieving what we really want to do. By working together with me I can help you to build your self-awareness and self-acceptance so that you can achieve your career goals. I have worked with numerous clients during their therapy sessions with their career, from creation of their CV, writing up their job applications and working to create a confidence plan when dealing with difficult colleagues.

I work full-time as a digital marketing professional during weekdays. This means I have current corporate managerial work experiences to refer to and use to help and support you as a career counsellor. I have previously worked within the training and education sector as a teacher and coach where I have supported over 150 individuals. Using my own personal experience of attending interviews, combined with my professional working experiences and psychotherapy, I feel confident I would be able to help and support you.