Clinical Career Counselling for professionals at a focused crossroads. The same integrated work that anchors the programs — applied flexibly, session by session, to a specific question.
A 20-minute conversation to understand your situation and find the right next step.
Insurance Coverage & Receipts
In some cases, direct billing is available.
Secure Telehealth
Available across Canada
In Person
Downtown Vancouver, by appointment
Available In
English · Portuguese · Spanish
What this work is
Clinical Career Counselling integrates four things into one process:
Organizational psychology theory and methodology — how careers, roles, teams, leadership, and workplace systems actually work.
Clinical counselling and psychotherapy-informed depth — held within scope of practice as a Registered Clinical Counsellor, applied where the career question is also an identity, confidence, transition, or relational question.
Validated assessment — tools used as structured thinking material, not as labels.
Career-development strategy — practical, decision-oriented work that produces a written direction and concrete next steps.
The career question stays at the centre. The emotional, identity, and work-system layers are held carefully — not centred, not ignored.
This is the version of career work that can hold both the practical question and the layer underneath it.
What tends to bring people here
Values misalignment
Successful on paper — but something is wrong
Burnout signals
Exhaustion that a break has not resolved
Career identity in transition
Who you are professionally is shifting — and that is unsettling
Loss of a role or path
Grief, disruption, or uncertainty that benefits from clinical depth
A decision with weight
A move that needs more than advice — it needs real reflection
When it fits
Clinical Career Counselling on a pay-as-you-go basis may be the right starting point if:
You have a contained question — a job offer to weigh, a transition to test, a piece of feedback you cannot place — and you want one careful, clinically grounded conversation about it.
You have completed a program and want a periodic check-in as the work continues to land.
Your existing therapist, counsellor, or coach has suggested a career-focused session as an adjunct.
You want to test the work before deciding whether to commit to a program.
You are between life chapters and want a thinking partner for a specific decision, not an ongoing engagement.
When programs fit better
A structured program is usually the better fit if:
The question is bigger than one session can hold — a career rebuild, a multi-layer transition, a sustained pattern.
You are navigating a rebuild as an internationally trained professional — the Canadian Career Pathway Program is built specifically for that.
You are navigating a "is it the role, the field, the company, or something deeper" question and want a structured diagnostic — the Career Clarity Program is built for that.
You are carrying the internal cost of a senior role and need a confidential, time-bounded clinical space — the Leadership Insight Intensive is built for that.
How this differs
Generic career coaching typically operates without a clinical framework, without validated assessments, and without psychotherapy-informed depth. It is action-oriented and can be useful when the question is mostly tactical.
Open-ended therapy without a career focus is broader work — across mood, relationships, family of origin, history, and life domains beyond work. It is the right container when the primary concern is not career-related.
Clinical Career Counselling integrates organizational psychology, clinical counselling and psychotherapy-informed depth, validated assessment, and career-development strategy. The career question stays at the centre. The psychotherapy-informed depth is applied where it serves the career work — not as an open-ended exploration. The clinical credential makes that depth possible; the I-O psychology background makes the work-system layer legible; the assessments give the session a data-informed foundation; the career-development strategy gives it a structured arc and a written deliverable.
What you can expect
Tailored to your situation — not every element applies to every engagement. We determine together what the work requires.
A proper first session to understand what is actually driving the question — not a sales call, and not a surface-level intake form. We start here before deciding what the work needs to look like.
Strong Interest Inventory, TriMetrix HD, and EQ-i 2.0 are available where they add value. Not every situation calls for them — but where useful, they give the work a grounded, data-informed foundation. Not every engagement uses assessments. The decision is made together.
A focused number of sessions — agreed at the start, revisited as the work evolves. Some clients work in a single session. Others work across a short series. Both are valid uses.
Where useful, a written summary of key observations, themes, and next steps — something to leave with beyond memory of a conversation.
Assessment tools are used as part of counselling-informed career development work. They are not diagnostic psychological tests and do not replace psychological assessment by a registered psychologist. Because this work is delivered by a Registered Clinical Counsellor, counselling sessions may be reimbursable through extended health benefits that cover RCC services. Coverage varies — check your plan before booking.
What to expect
We start with a real conversation — not a form or a questionnaire. The first session is clinical, grounded, and designed to understand what is actually going on before we decide how to work together.
Sessions are purposeful, clinically informed, and adapted to what comes up. We use assessments where they help. We go at the pace the work requires — and revisit the plan as things shift.
Clarity. A written summary where it helps. A clear sense of what is next — and confidence in the direction, not just a list of options you already knew about.
Insurance Coverage & Receipts
In some cases, direct billing is available.
Secure Telehealth
Available across Canada
In Person
Downtown Vancouver, by appointment
Available In
English · Portuguese · Spanish
Common questions