Career Therapy & Transition Coaching for High Achievers
I help executives, leaders,
and senior professionals
manage severe workplace
stress and burnout.
Therapy & Coaching Specialties
In senior roles, it is often difficult to separate your work from your identity, relationships, and health.
My therapy and coaching services provide a confidential space to address workplace pressure and make major career decisions. I’m here to help you make your next step with confidence – whether you stay in your role or transition to a new path.
Providing therapy in Connecticut and career coaching nationwide.
Career Transitions
Through a structured, assessment-based process, I offer coaching and support to experienced professionals who need to make a career change to accelerate their burnout recovery.
Stress Management
The goal of stress management therapy is not to eliminate pressure. It’s to restore your ability to cycle out of it. Improving that flexibility is what prevents chronic stress from turning into full burnout.
Burnout Recovery
Together, we’ll develop strategies to regulate your nervous system, address patterns in your work environment that are contributing to burnout, and make decisions about how to protect your energy.
Workplace Anxiety
In the workplace, anxiety might look like micromanagement, over-preparation, sensitivity, or perfectionism. I offer both practical skills for managing anxiety and deeper work on the patterns underneath.
Imposter Syndrome
What people call imposter syndrome is really a self-trust problem, which often drives patterns of burnout. Rebuilding your self-trust and internal authority will transform how you show up in your career.
Workplace Abuse
If you’re experiencing bullying or a toxic work environment, it can leave deep marks on your confidence, energy, and sense of self. I can help you gain clarity on your situation and reclaim your voice.
About Career Therapy
When you’ve spent decades building a successful career, but stress or burnout makes it challenging to enjoy the rewards of your hard work, there is often a deeper issue that needs to be addressed.
It’s natural to want to advance in your field and build a secure future for your family. There is a way to do that without sacrificing your health, relationships, or life outside work.
How Career Therapy Helps High Achievers
If your job is pushing you towards a breaking point, career therapy can help you identify what’s driving the stress and explore solutions, before medical leave or a job loss makes recovery harder. Whether you’re dealing with an unhealthy work environment or an internal mental health challenge, you don’t have to give up your goals to feel more like yourself again.
Combining Career Coaching and Therapy
Long-term career satisfaction might require changing jobs, but it’s often possible to rebuild a more manageable relationship with your current role. Whichever path you take, I can help you leave work at work, be more present at home, and protect your health while remaining a high performer.
Schedule a free, confidential consultation to talk through what’s happening at work and how career therapy can help.
No-Charge Initial Consultation
We start with a short introductory call, where you can confidentially discuss your situation, ask questions, and see if we’re the right fit to work together.
A Tailored Plan for Recovery
If we decide to continue, I’ll suggest an area of focus to best address your current challenges, both internally and in the workplace.
Structured Sessions At Your Pace
Through flexible online appointments, we will first address your immediate stressors to create stability, then explore your options in the long-term.
Meet:
Christine Walker, LPC
As a business owner and mother of four, I know how hard it is to stop thinking about work when you’re home with your family.
After making my own midlife career transition as a working parent, I pursued a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, to better address the challenges my clients face in their demanding, high-pressure careers.
I’ve been able to help even the most driven and work-focused professionals find ways to enjoy life again. I would love to help you do the same.
Testimonials
A.G, Google Review
“Christine’s counseling has been highly transformative in both my personal and professional life! Her emotions-forward approach helped me not only uncover my career goals but also deepen my self-awareness and emotional intelligence…”
H.K., Google Review
“I cannot speak highly enough of Christine Walker. She is genuine, intelligent, insightful, empathetic, flexible, creative, and so much more. Each session she provides the perfect blend of guidance and support by effortlessly perceiving your unique needs. Christine has an unbelievable ability to identify any limiting roadblocks in your blind spot…”
S.M., Google Review
“I found Christine Walker Coaching through a recommendation. I had been feeling very stuck in my career and went through months of spinning on making a career change. Through Christine’s impeccable coaching and a bottomless supply of tools and assessments, I was able to gain incredible clarity…”
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