Career Development
Career development includes career choice, direction, planning, and retirement. It also includes work-related mental health issues such as stress, anxiety, and burnout. Being proactive about managing our careers helps us in realizing our ambitions as we go through work and life changes. Steering our careers in a direction that is congruent with our values and interests contributes to our career satisfaction and our overall health and well-being.
Whether contemplating a next career move or wanting to manage a work-related mental health issue, the client’s personalized goals are discussed and addressed during therapy sessions. The therapeutic process may include career related self-assessments, learning of relevant strategies and skills, overcoming mental distress, and working toward career fulfilment.
Common Issues Addressed in Therapy
- Career related self-assessments
- Defining career values, interests and skills
- Career exploration, direction, and planning
- Job loss, job search, networking, and interviews
- Starting a new job and building professional relationships
- Disability disclosure and accommodations
- Starting a leave or retuning back to work
- Addressing issues with colleagues and management
- Balancing work and other responsibilities
- Work-related stress, anxiety, and burnout
- Transitioning to retirement
- Other issues related to career development