Career Transition Coaching for Burned-Out Professionals
Assessment-based career exploration with a career therapist.
If chronic stress, workplace abuse, or AI disruption fears are making your work life feel intolerable, you’ve come to the right place.
I offer convenient career transition coaching via telehealth to support experienced professionals who need to make a career change to accelerate their burnout recovery. I use a structured, assessment-based process to help you find your best path forward.
As a licensed therapist with specialized training in career development, I bring clinical expertise that goes beyond traditional career coaching. And, as someone who made a midlife career change myself (with four kids still at home), I understand how this process feels on a personal level too.
If you haven’t addressed your nervous system yet, we may start our work there to ensure you’re mentally and emotionally well positioned to make strategic life decisions, but our ultimate goal will be pinpointing a career that will sustain you long-term and give you energy instead of just consuming it.
What I don’t do:
This work is for you if:
- You know you need a change but feel overwhelmed or discouraged every time you try to figure out what’s next
- You’ve lost confidence in your own judgment after years of navigating difficult work environments
- You want a structured, assessment-based process to guide your decision, not guesswork or gut instinct
- You want to find work that uses your natural strengths and gives you energy
- You would benefit from working with a therapist, not just a coach, because there’s more going on than a simple career pivot
How does career coaching work?
We’ll start with a consultation to understand what’s causing your dissatisfaction and what you’re hoping to find in your next role.
From there, I’ll administer a comprehensive battery of assessments that will examine your strengths, values, interests, and work style. One thing I focus on specifically is identifying your core strengths, the things that come so naturally to you that you’ve probably never thought of them as remarkable. Research from the VIA Institute on Character has shown that people who use four or more of their signature strengths in their work are significantly more likely to experience it as a calling rather than just a job. That’s the kind of alignment we’re looking for.
Assessments provide useful data, but they don’t have all the answers. We’ll also use homework and exercises between sessions to explore specific possibilities that assessments alone can’t identify. Part of this work is untangling how much of your dissatisfaction is about the role itself, the environment, or the coping strategies you’ve developed over time. We want to make sure that you don’t carry the same problems into your next position.
Once we’ve gathered enough information, we’ll narrow down realistic options together. We’ll discuss what each path would require, what the trade-offs look like, and whether the change you’re considering will adequately address your needs, especially when you have financial obligations and family responsibilities to account for.
This process typically takes 5 sessions, although some people prefer to slow it down and take as many as 10, depending on how much time they need to process and explore.
Throughout this process, I’ll provide emotional support for the doubt, anxiety, and second-guessing that comes up, because making a major career decision can bring up a lot of those feelings, even when you know it’s the right move.
If you decide to move forward with a job search, I can continue supporting you through that transition as well.
When you’re ready, simply click the button below to get started.
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FAQ
How do I know if I need career coaching or therapy?
Most people who come to me thinking they need a complete career overhaul are actually burned out. And when you’re burned out, everything feels like it needs to change: the job, the industry, sometimes your entire professional identity.
In my experience, it’s usually better to stabilize the burnout first and then decide whether a career transition still feels necessary. Sometimes it does, and we’ll move into career assessment from there. Sometimes what felt like the wrong career was actually the right career in the wrong environment.
If you’re not sure which you need, that’s okay. We can figure that out during the consultation.
What assessments do you use?
I use a combination of personality, values, interests, and strengths assessments tailored to your situation. The specific assessments I choose will depend on what information we need to narrow down your options.
How long does the career coaching process take?
Typically 5 sessions, although some people prefer to take as many as 10 depending on how much time they need to process and explore options.
Do you help with resumes and LinkedIn profiles?
I can review your resume and offer general strategic feedback, but I don’t provide detailed writing or optimization services. For that level of support, I’ll refer you to trusted professionals who specialize in resumes and LinkedIn.
How much does career coaching cost?
Career coaching rates vary depending on the package and number of sessions you choose. Packages start at $995 for 5 sessions and go from there. We can discuss options during your consultation.
Should I just use AI for this?
AI tools can be useful for generating ideas and exploring options, and I will even give you some helpful prompts, but they have significant limitations.
AI will always see your side of the story and can’t challenge your assumptions or help you see blind spots, which can lead to repeating the same problems in your next role. It can’t administer validated assessments, interpret results in the context of your history, or provide the accountability you need when doubt and second-guessing show up. Career transitions involve complexities that often require human judgment and presence.
Do you ever work with therapists who are consideering a career change?
Yes, I do. As a licensed therapist with specialized training in career development, I work with therapists and other mental health professionals who are burned out, ambivalent about staying in practice, or exploring what else they could do with their skills.
We will look at whether you want to change how you work, change your role within the field, or shift into something new altogether, and we will move at a pace that respects your financial, ethical, and nervous‑system realities.