Why Career Coaching and Psychotherapy are the Perfect Combination for Success

Many people suffering from mental health challenges like depression and anxiety assume that advances in material success will increase their happiness. In reality, it is often the other way around.

Sometimes, we face obstacles in our careers – among many other areas – due to internal conflicts, low self confidence and limiting core beliefs we might not even be aware of. Psychotherapy can help you challenge these core beliefs to improve your internal harmony and increase your self esteem. This approach to boosting your emotional resilience, combined with goal-oriented career coaching, empowers you to overcome personal and professional challenges.

Psychotherapy combined with career coaching contributes to your overall success in life and instils a growth mindset, enabling you to face future challenges with strength.

If you want to find out how this holistic approach to personal improvement and resilience can assist you in achieving goals in your career, relationships, inner world, and much more, I hope to hear from you.

With over 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist, I also bring more than 40 years of expertise in people management within business settings, including leadership mentoring and initiatives for company culture change. Give me a call so we can discuss your unique situation and goals.

Understanding Career Coaching and Psychotherapy

In so many cases, the real obstacle to a person’s career ambitions comes down to internal conflicts, often in the form of unresolved trauma. In today’s world, particularly in our professional lives, we feel the need to put on a brave face, ‘knuckle down’ and hide any perceived weakness or vulnerability. Unfortunately, such masking can have a debilitating impact on our psychological well-being. Ironically, while we attempt to progress in our careers by masking our true emotions, we inadvertently hold ourselves back by overlooking the real obstacles to our lives.

Psychotherapy can help you get to the root of your internal conflicts and process unresolved trauma healthily, enabling you to challenge self-limiting beliefs. You can also boost your psychological resilience and self-confidence, which can be aligned with your personal values and career goals through career coaching.

Coaching can be instrumental in helping you hone specific skills, perspectives and behaviours central to personal growth. Through coaching, you can identify goals that align with your values. We can also work together to identify your strengths and performance gaps. If you are a manager or have ambitions to pursue a management role, we can refine your decision-making and leadership skills to help you navigate the complex dynamics of the workplace. This is why combining coaching with psychotherapy can be so beneficial – boosting your resilience and inner harmony can tremendously aid in strengthening your leadership qualities.

Emotional Resilience: The Foundation for Success

The importance of building emotional resilience to meet your personal and professional goals cannot be stressed enough. Emotional resilience rarely gets a second thought when it comes to our professional lives. There remains a widespread cultural view that emotions do not belong in the workplace, and we should be able to bury or ignore our thoughts and feelings until we clock off.

However, suppressing our true feelings is only ever a temporary solution that can lead to long-term mental health challenges. Moreover, when our emotional resilience takes a hit, we may be unable to switch off after work, with the ripple effects of this prolonged stress bleeding into other areas of life.

True emotional resilience is not about putting on a brave face by suppressing our emotions – it is almost the opposite. It is about embracing rather than denying our true feelings so that we can process them healthily, gradually removing those long-term blocks to our innate productivity and psychological strength.

We often think that facing our true thoughts and feelings from adverse or stressful past experiences is a sign of weakness, but it is actually a sign of true courage. By processing our unresolved trauma, we allow our brains to store the painful memories in the correct place – in the past. This can minimise and eventually eliminate deep-down feelings of inadequacy that can lead to roadblocks like stress, anxiety and depression. With your recovered inner strength, you will be able to set and accomplish realistic goals not just in your career but in all areas of your life. You will also regain the natural resilience you need to face future challenges without being emotionally defeated by them.

Aligning Goals with Your Authentic Self

Sometimes, we find ourselves chasing career goals that do not align with our values. We may feel that a particular job position or income level will improve our perception in the eyes of others. We may feel obligated to go down certain roads based on other people’s expectations.

By getting to know your authentic self through psychotherapy and career coaching, you can determine what you really want out of life. Perhaps you do not even want that intensely stressful position you have been eyeing just for the pay rise. You may have been dreaming of a career change for years but find the prospect far too daunting or risky.

Psychotherapy helps you get to the root of your core personal values, while career coaching helps you align these personal values with your professional goals. Through coaching, we can consider realistic roadmaps to help you meet your aims without being overwhelmed. If you dream of a management role but lack confidence, for example, we can boost your emotional resilience and leadership skills to prepare you to take the challenge in your stride. If you wish to change your career, we can determine ways to gradually build your skillset and prepare for risks and challenges along the way.

Who Can Benefit from the Combined Approach?

Psychotherapy and career coaching can benefit just about anybody. But, it is an especially useful combination for those who are unhappy with their career choice, under stress at work, struggling to remain psychologically afloat with the pressure or facing confusion about what they actually want out of life.

For young professionals, coaching with therapy can be a practical career guidance tool and a therapeutic way to manage stress. Coaching can be fantastic for leadership development and overcoming burnout if you are a few years or decades into your career. For high-achievers, therapy and coaching can help ensure you do not neglect your mental well-being. Regardless of where you are in your career, psychotherapy combined with career coaching can be invaluable tools in helping you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Book Your First Consultation in Career Coaching and Psychotherapy

With over four decades of experience in people management across various commercial settings and more than 25 years as a psychotherapist, I am uniquely positioned to offer customised approaches to personal development that blend psychotherapy with career coaching.

I specialise in helping people boost their emotional resilience through therapeutic practices, from challenging core beliefs to mindfulness. Sometimes, just having an understanding person listen to your experiences and true feelings can do the world of good. So, get in touch with me for a no-obligation chat to find out how I can help you.

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