Adjusting to your present circumstances and planning your return to the workplace:

• Reviewing your career timeline and transferable skills

• Identifying strengths, values and life-stage to secure your best career fit

• Creating a strong CV and career narrative

• Exploring career options and establishing 'must-haves' in your next role

• Developing a long term career strategy and development plan

Developing strategies and techniques to secure the role you want:

• Developing a structured approach to competency and strength-based interviews 

• Selecting strong examples and rehearsing interviews and presentations

• Demonstrating personal impact and effectiveness

• Managing nerves and performing under pressure

• Negotiating flexibility and future career development

Understanding and reconciling the impact of change and moving forward:

• Identifying and managing your emotional states in response to change

• Re-establishing personal confidence and agency

• Knowing your boundaries and managing psychological safety

• Holding the present and the possible at the same time 

• Creating a clear and realistic career plan for the future

Career breaks can be an energising time to plan where you go next. You can identify your strengths and values, working pattern, culture and environment which enable you to flourish.  However, if the transition is enforced, it may be a time of uncertainty, low confidence and loss of identity where you need a safe space to adapt and practical tools to develop a new way of operating at work.

I create calm headroom to develop self-awareness and clarity about your career - enabling you to shape fresh perspectives, experiment with new skills and operate with ease. As a psychologist, I can work sensitively and insightfully with deeper issues influencing career satisfaction — such as imposter feelings, perfectionism or burnout enabling you to manage things differently next time around. 

I offer structured packages over an agreed period of time, tailored to your needs.  This includes an individual session where you can receive feedback on your CV and interview style; a three session package to explore your best career fit and a six session package to work through the psychology of change and focus on personal confidence and identity prior to moving onto practical next steps.

I utilise career tools including Bridges’ transition model, MBTI, career timelines, strengths and values exercises and draw upon concepts from Gestalt, Seligman and Nancy Kline to support our sessions. I provide pre-coaching questions, set activities  between sessions and follow-up emails to keep progress on track.  Following completion of a package, discrete sessions are available on request.

My Registration Number is 11161875 to verify my status as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Search under “List of Chartered Members” to  confirm my status of Chartership and Associate Fellow at the British Psychological  Society.

You can view my career history and recommendations on LinkedIn.