Career Counseling
Find Clarity for What Comes Next
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Choosing a college major or career path can feel exciting—but also overwhelming. You may be a high school student wondering what to study, a college student questioning your major, a recent graduate unsure of your next step, or a young adult considering a career change. When the decision feels important, it’s easy to become paralyzed by the fear of choosing incorrectly.
Career counseling is about more than matching your personality with a list of jobs. A fulfilling direction considers your interests, values, strengths, personality, educational options, financial realities, and the kind of life you hope to build. It also means understanding how anxiety, perfectionism, family expectations, or questions about calling and purpose may be influencing your decisions.
My approach combines structured career exploration with the insight and support of counseling. Depending on your needs, we may use interest, values, and skills assessments; explore your story and things you enjoy; research educational pathways and employment opportunities; and identify practical ways to test potential directions. Rather than telling you what you should become, I’ll help you gather meaningful information, better understand yourself, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Perspective on career decisions
Career indecision is not always an information problem. Sometimes the student already has plenty of information but struggles with fear, self-doubt, perfectionism, family pressure, comparison, or the belief that one wrong choice will ruin the future.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor, I can help students address both sides of the decision: the external information about careers and education and the internal thoughts, emotions, experiences, and relationships affecting their ability to choose.
My background includes a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, an MBA, a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, entrepreneurial and nonprofit leadership, and more than a decade working with middle school, high school, and college students in camp, ministry, leadership, and team-building settings. I am currently completing Facilitating Career Development training as I expand this area of practice.
For parents
Parents can be valuable partners without taking over the student’s process. For students under 18, we will discuss parental consent, student privacy, how results will be shared, and when parent participation would be useful.
When appropriate, a parent feedback meeting can help families understand the student’s emerging direction, support practical next steps, and separate the student’s goals from the understandable fears or expectations of the adults who care about them.