Career Counseling for Professionals of Color in Los Angeles
What is career counseling?
In career counseling, professionals get to explore their relationships with their careers. There are various reasons why people can feel unhappy about their jobs. A question I often ask is “Are you getting your needs met?” Oftentimes people just work for the next paycheck, because it is what they are “supposed to do.” You start feeling burnt out, stressed, all sorts out of balance. Through career counseling in Los Angeles, you can begin to explore your values and needs at the workplace. You get to explore your skills and highlight your expertise. You will capitalize on your strengths so that you can be the best version of yourself at your job. And maybe for the first time, you start to feel fulfilled in your career.
Who are professionals of color?
You’ve worked hard to build your career — and it shows.
As a professional of color, you likely identify as part of the Black, Indigenous, or other People of Color (BIPOC) communities and have carved a path in a field that demands expertise, resilience, and dedication. You’re seen as capable, dependable, and driven. No matter where you are on the career ladder, your success hasn’t come without effort.
But the pressure is taking its toll.
Despite all your accomplishments, you may feel like the workload never lets up. Burnout is creeping in — leaving you exhausted, unmotivated, and questioning your passion. You might feel unsupported, disconnected, or unsure how to find fulfillment beyond your professional life.
How can career counseling help?
Work-related stress can breed low self-esteem and lack of motivation. Now you are avoiding difficult tasks, new situations, and even conversations with coworkers because it’s too much work. Or maybe you feel like they just won’t get it.
Here, you finally get the space to just show up exactly as you are. In therapy, you get to just be. With career counseling therapy, you can also learn how to get back up and excel.
Career counseling in Los Angeles can help alleviate the emotional labor that your job brings. You can learn how to have boundaries, communicate assertively, or even just release some of the tension you’re carrying through relaxation. Beyond that, you get the opportunity to understand yourself better so you can give yourself better.
You fought incredibly hard for where you stand today. It’s finally time to give yourself the healing that you’ve always deserved. In working with us, we can you with the personal, professional, and societal pressures that are hanging over your head.
Why is career counseling important?
Our jobs have such a strong influence on our lives from the very beginning. It is safe to say that every 5-year-old in us has been asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Since then (or maybe even earlier for you), you start shaping your life based on that one question.
And of course, the older we get, the more we realize that acquiring that job is not that easy. Getting hired, getting fired, then getting hired again. You go from feeling completely confident at your job, then questioning your belonging the next minute. Or it could look like getting along with coworkers to having tension with your boss.
Having a sense of achievement is part of what fuels our self-esteem and the way we see ourselves. Work can bring about very challenging circumstances that make you feel stuck. Through career counseling, you don’t only get to explore your strengths, you also start to pay attention to what feels satisfying to you. This can be the catalyst that changes the rest of your life. This can help you get clear on who you are so you can start a fulfilling career.
Our approach
Feeling stuck and stressed from work? It can feel so overwhelming that you end up avoiding work altogether. As a therapist who specializes in career counseling in Los Angeles, I can help you figure out an action-based plan so that you can manage your job with a lot more balance. In therapy with me, you will not only have someone to hold you accountable for your actions but also guide you to understand what is potentially holding you back. As your therapist, I will guide your thoughts through your earliest memories about ‘what you wanted to be when you grew up,’ your very first job, explore your relationship with money, and so much more. I lead with curiosity, and this same curiosity will allow me to get to know you better and understand you deeper. As you teach me about your life, I can adjust the skills based on your needs.
I identify as a professional of color - and I get how challenging the professional road can be. Though I can use my own experiences to inform our work together, I make sure that I help you determine the next steps and develop a plan for YOUR goals.
A lot of my clients come in feeling stressed and stuck, both inside and outside of work. I can help you slowly uncover deeper-rooted issues that seem to show up in your day-to-day life. You may have fear and anxiety in taking leaps toward something new, and I am here to help you get unstuck.
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