Career Counseling

Achieve Your Goals with Expert Career Counseling for Adults

Are you seeking a job, a career, or a "calling"? At Lana Shatil Psychotherapy, we specialize in career counseling for adults, helping you navigate the complexities of your professional life. A job sustains your lifestyle, a career offers a potential path toward growth, and a calling is the direction in which you can find the greatest fulfillment.

It's common for these three elements to feel misaligned, and that's perfectly okay. Understanding the differences between them and recognizing where you currently stand can provide the much-needed perspective to make your next step. Our career counseling for adults focuses on helping you identify these distinctions, allowing you to chart a course that aligns with your true desires.

In our sessions, we work collaboratively to uncover your "calling" and align it with your career aspirations. Together, we’ll explore your passions, strengths, and values, empowering you to pursue a path that brings you joy and satisfaction. Whether you're looking to make a career change, find greater fulfillment in your current role, or identify your true calling, our supportive environment will guide you toward achieving your professional goals.

Let me help you discover the fulfilling career you deserve through our dedicated career counseling for adults services.

Life - design counseling for career construction

It’s not vocational guidance which is based on scores. Life design counseling is based on clients’ stories.
Core elements of this counseling are relationship, reflection, and sense-making
- Relationship: clients are the experts of their stories, and I am the expert in the life design process
- Reflection: clients telling their stories enables them to get outside themselves and more readily examine their lives within a larger story.
- Making sense: clients enter counseling after completing their story, being de-stories, or falling out of the story. They may no longer understand their situation and how to act in it. They must make sense of the disorienting separation that has interrupted or disturbed life-as-usual. Most clients feel lost and believe that they are encountering a novel situation without a script that tells them who they are and what to do. They need to interpret what is happening to compose a new story for their lives. Life-designed counseling encourages clients to make sense of their lives by articulating purpose, forming intentions, and making commitments to self.
How it looks from the client side:
- 1st meeting. We discuss the current situation and set up together goals for the counseling.
- 2nd and 3rd meeting. I ask for specific stories from their past, and we explore the feelings, reasoning, motivations, and impact of each story.
- 4th meeting. I present a written life-portrait report which I complete based on the stories I collected. We re-examine the narrative and clarify what may be a new purpose, intention, and commitment to self.