Counseling for Professionals
Is Your Work Life Creating Obstacles To Your Happiness And Fulfillment?
Are you struggling with the effects of burnout or performance anxiety when it comes to your career?
Do you wish you could strike more balance between your work, relationships, and personal life?
Is your career interfering with major life decisions, including those related to growing your family?
When work creates challenges in your mental health, it can be overwhelming. You may feel like you don’t have enough time to get everything done or that you always have to be available to respond to calls, emails, and texts from your colleagues. It’s likely that you regularly overextend yourself and feel guilty about creating boundaries in the interest of self-care. In addition, a common issue among professionals is imposter syndrome, which is the feeling of being inadequate and undeserving of your accomplishments.
Not to mention, life transitions are often interrelated with career moves. You might need help establishing what your purpose is or if your work fulfills your needs. If you have a job that requires long hours or frequent moves, you may be experiencing professional burnout or noticing the impact that your demanding lifestyle has on your family. All you want is to know how to prioritize their—and your—needs so that everyday life can feel less stressful.
For Working Women In Particular, Professional Demands Can Compromise A Mentally Healthy Lifestyle
If you’re a working woman, you’re subjected to unique professional hurdles. You may have a hard time balancing your commitments, feeling like you have to say yes to everything if you want to be taken seriously. Perhaps you’ve developed performance anxiety or imposter syndrome—disproportionately common among women—fueling a critical inner voice that tells you you’re not good enough. You may need help navigating male-dominated spaces or figuring out strategies for asserting yourself at work.
In addition, there are often different standards for working moms than there are for working dads. Whether you have children or not, you may be skeptical that a work-life balance is possible for working moms. Perhaps you’re in a position that’s forcing you to choose between working or being a primary caretaker, and you wish you knew what the right decision was. Or maybe you feel like your personal and professional goals have to take a back seat to your partner’s aspirations. If you’ve recently re-entered the workforce after being a stay-at-home parent, you may be wondering how to manage all of your responsibilities and make adjustments that align with the new circumstances of your life.
People Of Color And Historically Marginalized Populations Encounter Disproportionate Hurdles In Their Professional Development
As BIPOC individuals, we are likely to encounter difficulties in the workplace. We’ve all heard the adage that POC have to “work twice as hard to get half as far,” and professional environments have historically put marginalized populations at a remarkable disadvantage. Because many workplaces lack proper representation, it’s easy for workers of color to feel undervalued or experience the effects of imposter syndrome.
As a POC, you may be the first in your family to graduate college, work in a corporate environment, or balance a career with life as a parent. You may not have been raised with professional role models who demonstrated healthy work-life balance, or perhaps you’re struggling with other peoples’ expectations about what you should do with your degree or career.
No matter how you identify, work stress can lead to mental health obstacles. But whether you’re struggling with burnout in general, balancing the demands of being a working mother, or trying to pave your way as a minority in the workplace, counseling for professionals can help you develop lifelong skills and gain clarity on your purpose.
Self-Care Is Essential—But Often Forgotten—In Achieving Work-Life Balance
Before getting too hard on yourself for feeling overwhelmed and stressed by your work, it’s important to remember that professional expectations and everyday life have changed drastically, even within the last generation. While women’s roles have dramatically expanded outside of the home, their domestic responsibilities have largely remained the same. This has complicated work-life balance for families of color in particular, as there are continuing barriers to professional development and accessible childcare.
Living with the stress of managing a demanding job on top of the needs of a family would make anyone feel overwhelmed, but women and POC in particular are more likely to experience feelings of inadequacy. When the narrative that white men are the only professionals capable and entitled to success is constantly reinforced, it’s easy to assume that we, as POC, women, and other historically marginalized populations, are undeserving of our accomplishments.
But in counseling for professionals, I will help you to challenge the self-critical misconceptions at the core of your stress and worry. Together, we can strategize ways to navigate professional stressors as you learn to achieve more work-life balance
I Offer Professional Counseling To Working Men And Women Of All Backgrounds And Lifestyles
You may not feel like you have community or support at work, but counseling gives you a chance to build a trusted relationship with a professional who can help you achieve fulfillment both in your career and outside of work. As we collaborate on developing self-care, enforcing boundaries, and saying no without guilt, you can start to feel freed of the stress involved with your career.
The Therapeutic Process
Therapy starts with a basic intake that helps me understand your background, professional goals, and hopes for counseling. During this time, I will learn more about your symptoms and how they impact your life, working towards a deeper awareness of your triggers.
From there, I will draw from your historical experiences and familial relationships to help you understand how generational patterns manifest as stress, burnout, and work-related performance anxiety. By reflecting on the professional models you had, you’ll learn more about how to respond to work demands and the other people in your life. Once you can objectively examine the facts of the past, you can make your present more satisfying and your future more hopeful.
Counseling also gives you an opportunity to learn actionable skills that will help reduce stress in real-time. Though our primary focus will be getting to the core issue, I want to help you build your self-confidence, resilience, and emotional self-regulation skills so that you experience fewer disruptive symptoms in your day-to-day life.
If you’re experiencing stress, burnout, and a lack of work-life balance, you are not alone. Many of my clients feel bogged down by their professional demands, but my solution-focused, systemic approach to counseling has helped. Therapy paves the way to meaningful self-care, and with the insights you gain during our sessions, I am confident you will be able to embrace all aspects of your life with peace and confidence.
Maybe You’re Still Not Sure If Therapy Is Right For You…
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Self-improvement is hard, but it’s both possible and worth it! Not only will therapy help you to grow professionally—it will offer you lifelong skills for coping and resilience that you will be able to apply to all aspects of your life.
If you’re intimidated by the idea of therapy, just remember all the other challenges that you’ve overcome. Whether you’ve graduated from college, started a business, or managed a career on top of your other responsibilities, you have a lot to be proud of. Together, we will figure out ways to embrace your accomplishments while working to decrease your stress.
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Therapy is certainly a financial investment, but mental healthcare is healthcare. By investing in your mental health through counseling, you can see a payoff in increased confidence, resilience, and work-life balance. With this growth, you’re likely to see improvements in your work performance, relationships, and everyday life.
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I understand that as a working individual—especially if you’re a mom or dad—you may not have a balanced schedule that affords time for therapy. However, I offer counseling via an online platform, which allows working men and women to schedule with flexibility and without the hassle of a commute, regardless of their professional demands and lifestyle.
A Sense Of Balance Is Possible
If you’re struggling to achieve work-life balance or feel confident in your professional abilities, counseling can offer you skills and perspectives to help your stress feel more manageable.
Contact me to find out more about how I can help or if we’re a good match for therapy.
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