How are you doing this Monday?

Post-holiday vacation, I can honestly say that I was eager to get back to work out of a positive desire to work. I’m not one of those inauthentic career coaching gurus who think it is natural for everyone to love their work.  Instead, I know all the full range of possibilities and I want to […]

Career Counseling Can Dramatically Improve Your Life

Bold claim. But over the years of running Career Counseling Connecticut,  we have received enough feedback from clients as well as parents of clients and spouses of clients that we know the claim to be true. Areas of life can be sliced and diced into hundreds of categories.  For the sake of simplicity, I’ll create […]

Anxiety? Does it come from your career?

“If I am up at night thinking about work, I want to do so because I’m enthusiastic about a project, not because I’m consumed with worry.”  So said, a wise, self-aware career counseling client from Shoreline, CT.  This particular client is wonderful to work with because she’s so self-aware that she understands how much career […]

Are you developing Career Trauma?

One of my friends served in the Iraq War.  He has PTSD.  Obviously, his condition affects his life.  Given his service to a higher cause, the deep camaraderie he developed and the meaning/purpose he derived from his military days, he probably – although I never asked- do it all over again. One of our carer […]

The best time to change a mismatched career: TODAY

Years ago, I met a woman named Ruma who lived in Guilford, CT where I had an office at the time.  She heard that I was an education-entrepreneur and came to see me to figure out how to break into the education industry.  Ruma was in the pharmaceutical industry but believed it to be a […]

“I needed a career coach to get “out of my head”

So said a recent career counseling client.  Given my expertise in the world of work and a decade of career coaching, I am certain that I provide expert career guidance.  But I also know that just being a career coach provides an enormous advantage over someone who has been trying to figure out their career […]

“Your life” is the urgency

Most every client over thirty that Career Counseling Connecticut works with says the same thing after the meeting: “I should have come here a long time ago.” There are many reasons why people needlessly suffer in mismatched jobs and career paths but complacency is probably at the top of the list.  Complacency stems from not […]

Don’t choose certain unhappiness over anxiety about the unknown

“I just don’t know what I would do next. That’s why I stayed.”  Kate said as she tried to explain why she had not come to Career Counseling Connecticut sooner.  “I heard you on the radio a few years ago and I almost picked up the phone.  But then I worried what would happen if […]