Counselling-informed work for leaders and senior professionals navigating burnout, identity shifts, and the internal cost of carrying too much for too long — with the seriousness and confidentiality the work requires.
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 is
You are capable. You are functioning. But the support around you has not always kept pace with how much the role has grown.
The Leadership Insight Intensive Program is built for leaders, senior professionals, and high-stakes individual contributors navigating burnout, transition, identity shifts, and the internal cost of carrying too much for too long.
What it actually feels like
The pressure is higher.
The margin is thinner.
The role has grown faster than the support around it.
And what used to work is no longer enough.
This program is designed to help you understand what is driving the pressure, where your patterns are helping or hurting you, and what needs to change for you to lead more sustainably.
What you get
Counselling-informed, structured, and built around your actual situation. Not a coaching template or a productivity framework — a real working relationship focused on depth and change.
This program uses a specific combination of four assessments chosen for leadership and high-pressure work. Each one surfaces something different; the value is in how they work together.
Strong Interest Inventory (SII)
Where your interests, values, and career patterns point — used as a baseline for fit and direction before the deeper clinical work begins.
TriMetrix HD
Maps behavioural style, motivators, and how you show up under pressure — useful for identifying patterns that have calcified in the role over time.
EQ-i 2.0
A clinical-grade emotional intelligence assessment that identifies where emotional patterns are supporting — or quietly limiting — your functioning as a leader.
Stress Quotient
Measures how you respond to pressure across seven dimensions — making visible what the body and mind are already managing before the session begins.
Key patterns, pressure points, and practical recommendations in writing — so the insight from the program is clear, portable, and yours to keep.
Practical tasks designed to help insight become real change — not just better understanding, but actual shifts in how you lead, respond, and carry the role.
Assessment tools are used as part of clinical career counselling-informed work. They are not diagnostic psychological tests and do not replace psychological assessment by a registered psychologist.
The assessments
This program uses validated assessment tools to support a confidential leadership conversation — not to label you, score your worth, or define your leadership identity. Together, the assessments help us look at interests, behavioural patterns, motivators, emotional intelligence, and work-related stress. The sample visuals below show the structure of the reports. The value comes from the clinical debrief: how the results connect to pressure, patterns, decision-making, and sustainability.
Strong Interest Inventory
Patterns of interest and fit across occupational themes. Sample report shown. Not real client data.
The report is not the answer. The value of the work comes from how the results are interpreted in session — the debrief, the integration, and the translation into a clearer next step.
Who this is for
Not for leaders who want productivity hacks or a shinier personal brand. For people who want more than advice — who want clearer self-understanding and a more sustainable way forward.
Book a Free ConsultationYou are in a leadership role that has become heavier than expected — and the support around you has not kept pace.
You are a senior individual contributor navigating real pressure, burnout, or a transition you are managing mostly alone.
You are holding a great deal together externally while feeling less steady internally than you are letting on.
You want more than advice — you want clearer self-understanding and a better way forward that actually holds up under pressure.
Common entry points
Sustained load
The role has expanded. The expectations have compounded. The support around you has not kept pace. You are functioning at a high level — but the cost of doing so is becoming harder to ignore, and few people around you can see it clearly.
Significant transition
A new level of leadership, an organizational change, or a departure that carries more weight than expected. Transitions at senior levels are rarely just logistical — they often surface questions about identity, direction, and what comes next.
Questioning the cost
You have succeeded by most measures. But the question underneath has shifted — from "how do I get there?" to "is this actually what I want?" and "what is this costing me?" That question deserves a serious answer.
Difficult environments
You are managing upward, sideways, and downward in a system that is not straightforward. The complexity is real. The work here is about building a clearer understanding of your own patterns — so the environment shapes how you respond, rather than defining who you are.
The program arc
Four validated assessments — Strong Interest Inventory, TriMetrix HD, EQ-i 2.0, and Stress Quotient — completed before we begin. The work starts from a real, data-informed picture of your patterns, motivators, and pressure responses — not assumptions about what the problem might be.
Ten working sessions over 12–14 weeks. Counselling-informed, not surface-level. We work through the patterns, identity shifts, and internal dynamics that shape how you lead — and what is making the weight harder to carry.
A clear Leadership Development Plan with key patterns, pressure points, and practical recommendations. Integration tasks between sessions to help insight move into real change — not just better self-awareness, but a different way of functioning.
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
Because this work is delivered by a Registered Clinical Counsellor, counselling-oriented sessions may be reimbursable through extended health benefits that cover RCC services. Coverage varies — check your plan before booking.
Questions
From professionals who have worked through transition, pressure, and career change with Gui.
"Gui played an important role in helping me build the international career I have today. He works with heart, cares deeply, and brings real skill to what he does."
Henrique
"Working with Gui was a unique experience. He was caring, attentive, and helped me move toward an international remote role that felt aligned with my goals."
Klara
Clinical, confidential work — approached with the depth and seriousness the role deserves. A clearer read on what is driving the load, and a way forward that does not require you to keep running on empty.
The first step is a free 20-minute consultation to talk through what is happening and confirm whether this is the right fit before you commit to anything.