Most people experience confusion, disappointment, job loss, or nagging feelings of dissatisfaction at some time during their careers. Others are dealing with career issues related to divorce, chronic stress, anxiety, burnout, or the impact of a toxic work environment.
Career counseling can be a strategic and energizing process focused on career assessments, exploration, career planning, resumé writing, job search strategy, interview preparation, professional coaching, and life design.
Career counseling can also be therapeutic and healing. Many clients need a safe place to explore themselves, process their experiences, and gain new skills and tools for handling the challenges of work and life.
Integrative career counseling supports both the strategic and emotional needs of clients as they make career transitions.
I work with people from all industries and work/life stages including new college graduates, mid-career professionals, career changers, executives, business owners, men and women re-entering the workforce, and even people who are preparing for retirement. My ideal client is anyone yearning to create richer, more meaningful ways of living and working.
Service offerings include:
- Career Exploration and Transition
- Skill, Value, and Interest Assessments
- Job Search Coaching and Support
- Targeted Résumés, Cover Letters, and LinkedIn Profile Updates
- Interview Coaching and Interviewing Preparation
- Personal Branding and Authentic Connecting Skills
- Workplace Stress / Conflict Resolution
- Life Design – Value-Based, Sustainable Living and Working
- Emotional Readiness for Life/Career Transitions
I help clients identify their values and strengths, leverage their skills, and build bridges to the resources and opportunities they to need in order to reach their desired goals. I use a variety of assessments and counseling modalities that combine narrative, contemplative, strengths-based, and solution-focused approaches.
Specific Areas of Training and Expertise Include:
- ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy)
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Career Construction and Narrative Approaches
- Contemplative Exercises, Visualization, Motivation for Change, and Journaling
- STRONG, MBTI, Strengths Finders 2.0, and customized career assessments
Here is what clients are saying…
“I enjoyed working with Carrie. I felt comfortable with her from the very beginning; she’s very warm, supportive, and easy to talk to. She helped me retool my resume and linkedin profile after taking care to learn about my experience, skills and desires. I highly recommend working with her if you have the chance.”
Going in for meetings with Carrie was the best thing I could have possibly done for my education and career. With her tremendous help I was able to figure out what I wanted to do and how I needed to go about my career. I can’t possibly thank her enough for her crucial role in jumpstarting my career and getting me headed in the right direction.
Carrie was an informative, supportive and thoughtful guide during a time of career refinement. She served as a sounding board in assessing benefits and challenges of positions, reviewed application materials, prepared me for interviews and debriefed and supported decision-making. The mock interview coaching sessions were incredibly valuable to me.
As a recent graduate with my master's degree in biomedical sciences, Carrie and Pink Sky Career Counseling were immensely helpful in the process of landing my first "real" job. I was at a loss for how to apply for a position to start my career in such a specialized field. With little to no work experience, Carrie was able to help formulate my resume, cover letter and references, and manage my LinkedIn page as well as provide general career counseling. Thanks to Carrie's help and guidance I recently accepted an intraoperative neurophysiologist position for NuVasive in Minneapolis, MN. I could not have done it without Carrie's help. Long story short - I highly recommend Pink Sky Career Counseling for any career counseling you may need.
Not a day goes by that I don't thank Carrie in my mind on the way to my new job. Calling her was one of the best things I ever did for myself. Carrie is very intuitive, connected in the community, genuinely caring, and a master of her craft. Of course if you sign on for this, you have to dig deep and do things that are outside your comfort zone to get to where you want to be in life. But she held my hand all the way till the end and beyond. I cannot thank or recommend her enough.
I highly recommend Carrie. She did an amazing job helping me with my resume and providing valuable guidance in my job search process. I ended up being offered a great new job and wouldn't have gotten there without Carrie's assistance and support.
Carrie is amazing, I had a position open that I didn't know about until 4 days before it closed, just before the weekend. She went above and beyond to get it accomplished for me. I highly recommend working with her.
Carrie was fantastic to work with. She listened to what I was wanting and she produced a excellent product, responses to my resume increased and just recently landed a great job!