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Winding Forest Road

Liberated Career Support

Build your career intuition to feel more empowered & clear

My clients have invested a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into building their career.  Many have even secured their "dream job". Despite their many accomplishments, anxiety, doubt, perfectionism, and lack of self-care has caused burn-out, disconnection, and confusion. 

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At its best, work is a place to explore and experiment in finding out what really matters to us and what our unique talent is. It can be a place where we feel valued by others and where we can financially support ourselves & our family.  Work can help us grow, provide us with community and a larger mission, and it can keep our hope alive when life gets hard. 

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But at its worst, work can feel unbearable. It can be endless anxiety & stress, lifelong resentment, "wasted talent" and/or a re-creation of toxic interpersonal dynamics from childhood.

 

I have so much hope for people's ability to grow, change, and recover, because I've been honored to witness it first-hand from my clients. My clients work in various career fields including: medicine, finance, biotech, academia, marketing & sales, writers, small business owners as well as parents who are full-time caregivers and home-runners.

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Career coaching & counseling

My approach is rooted in unearthing individual values & purpose in order to help clients feel engaged and fulfilled in work. Conversely, I may support clients in de-prioritizing some goals when they no longer serve client’s or keep them stuck in burnt out and helplessness. 

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We work together to identify knowledge and skills areas to grow. Clients often want to improve communication, self-advocacy, and boundaries in order to achieve goals, improve confidence, and build in recovery & rest into their work approach.

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Issues Addressed:

  • Work transitions & interviewing

  • Negotiating pay & benefits

  • Returning to work following a period of time as a full-time caregiver

  • Building & running a business

  • Writing dissertation, completing intense professional training, or test anxiety

  • Navigating career decisions while pregnant, postpartum and through motherhood

  • Building a practice of rest, recovery, and nurturing within client’s work lives

  • Building stronger self-advocacy skills (to set boundaries, attain opportunities)

  • Recovering from toxic workplace environments (i.e., being a scapegoat, facing sexism, racism, or any other social identity discrimination) and rebuilding a safe and more confident career

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Perinatal & Caregiver Career Coaching

Is this a thing?  Well, it should be.

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We undergo so much career transition during the perinatal process (i.e., from pre-pregnancy to two years postpartum). The process of becoming parents and holding the primary caregiver role requires unique career support that understands and values the challenges parents face. 

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I support women to:

  • navigate career decisions

  • manage career anxiety

  • make sense of the competing demands of childcare

  • help prioritize and make sense of medical issues & decision making ingrained in the caregiver role 

  • value their work as caregivers & home runners

  • cope with body changes and body expectations in the work environment

  • connect parent philosophy with their career story & purpose

  • establish & practice boundaries 

  • increase advocacy confidence

  • roll with all the changes that come with this time

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Career Assessment

My goal is to take clients through a full process to appreciate their unique talents and values.  I hope that clients use the key take aways (as result of synthesizing career story and assessments results) to help them deepen understanding of their career identity and develop a sort of compass that helps them navigate career decisions throughout their lives. 

 

This process tends to be 3 sessions for the intake, assessment, and feedback process. I use about 3-4 assessments depending on the client. My goal is to integrate features of a person's career story, focusing on congruent & incongruent pieces of information where we may discover the importance of match in work environment & tasks. Feedback is usually provided via discussion, but I can provide some written notes (if helpful) of my impressions and suggestions going forward.

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