Career Counselling and Coaching in Spruce Grove, Alberta.

Your career is an important part of your life and your personal identity. Concerns related to your career can impact other areas of life and often increase stress outside of the work environment. You may want to explore a new career, make changes in your current position, discover how to be more productive and satisfied in your work, or be in need of support for conflict within the workplace. If so, then career counselling can offer exactly what you are looking for. I will help you to find solutions for your career concerns, and together we will develop a plan for satisfaction and empowerment in your work life.

Career counselling is usually a search for something different. A person wants to have an impact or have a purpose in this world. I have some experience helping people in providing life skills as a social worker. Thinking of a persons desire or goals helps to determine a potential career path along with fit with personality. Gaining insight and skills helps a person to move closer to a career.

In career counselling, I first focus on your career goals and potential workplace problems/issues. Next, we explore your career-life development and what provides you passion in your career. Alternatively, counselling may facilitate a transition to a different work environment or career that better suits your values and goals. Altogether, my approach is influenced by career-life development theory and personality research. Also, my research on workplace violence and abuse inform my work in individual career counselling.

Career counselling can be appropriate at any age. Sometimes you might need help in finding inspiration and ideas to follow up on. You may need advice because you are contemplating a change of career. People have different perspectives on what their job means to them. For some it feels like a calling and for others it is more a pay check which enables them to do what they really want. Finding a balance between these poles can be an important step in career choice.

I facilitate career exploration, planning, transition, retirement planning, and career development. Midlife career transition is also an area of specialization. Career decision-making is an in-depth process involving existing skills and strengths, career goals, and mapping career steps. Consideration of career renewal calls for in-depth self-discovery.

While most career counselors love to give you capacity based profiles of what your talents and interests are for your best bet career choices, Grey Matters international believes that most people make predictably irrational decisions and then after making them learn way to make them fit into their identities using various types of rationalizations and strategies. We are able to assist folks in career counseling type settings by giving a deeper look at their decision making profile so they can better understand where the core frustration or desire is coming from in the world of work. Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.

Prior to becoming a therapist, I enjoyed a long and successful career where I specialized in staffing, resource management, and business operations. I am also a fully trained career and life coach, where I work with clients to help them strive for and achieve their personal and professional goals. In therapy, I work with clients on all aspects of their career including: dealing with difficult coworkers, managing work/life balance, pursuing advances in their careers, exploring new careers, job transition and job loss.

When counselling others on future careers, I work hard to understand the strengths of my clients and create realistic goals that will lead to a journey for a new career. I use my knowledge and experiences from working in the university setting and management to search for a good fit for a future career. I am also able to assist with resumes, cover letters, and mock interviews. Assessments are also available if requested.

Certified Master Life Coach and Cognitive Reflex Conditioning Practitioner with a focus on helping people achieve greater happiness through personal growth and self-awareness. I empower people to change their life from feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, unmotivated, or simply lost with where they are or where they are going. Some are in that space due to a loss, unexpected transition or abuse. Others don’t know why they feel that way. Regardless of how they got there, these feelings can feel impossible to see through. Having overcome difficult seasons in my own life, I have been there. I hold a safe space, without judgement, and with compassion to assist clients in achieving results.

Who benefits from career counselling? You might be a student looking for direction or a person considering a career change. You may also be looking to delve deep and assess your talents, skills, interests, personality or learning style. Learning more about who you are and how you want to spend the next decades of your life are all considerations in career counselling. Assessment tools can be very helpful in making informed career choices and developing a personalized career path but are best utilized along with an experienced counsellor. Psychotherapeutic tools such as EFT and Mindfulness Based approaches can provide depths of understanding one's self.

In career counselling, I assist individuals with exploration, change, and development. I help people explore their values, personality characteristics, and strengths. I assist in the transition from school to a career, a change in their current career, or the transition from their career to retirement. I also help people work through career-related struggles and challenges such as stress/burnout, confidence/assertiveness, and work/life balance.

Discovering the career that will you will want to get up in the morning for and exploring possibilities that answer "How to I get there? " With 20 years of experience we can help you set goals, find opportunities and support you to obtain your dream career or work through the challenges and road blocks you may currently be experiencing at your current position.

Choosing a career path is a difficult area to navigate in one's life. Often stress can be a factor in changing our life course. Jennifer has worked with many clients that are in the decision making process or choosing and/or changing careers. She will help you process what this means for you, what you would like, potential risks and benefits, as well as dealing with the other results of this kind of change including anxiety, fears, frustrations, relationship changes etc. Please contact Jennifer directly for more information on career counselling.