What we are about

Life Work Counseling (LWC) is a professional partnership committed to encouraging positive growth and personal change in the career context. Through our approach, we help clients build connection and engagement in three ways:

1. Connect to others through authentic relationships
2. Create a sense of safety by tending to the self
3. Engage with values, interests, and aptitudes to create meaning

Many of us use our self as an instrument of our work, whether we intend to or not. Individual psychotherapy can start with any presenting issue, such as depression, anxiety, relationship strain, traumatic stress, intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, or disordered eating. At LWC we acknowledge that the first place many of us notice there is a problem is in our work. By beginning with the apparent problem, we are able to quickly get to the challenging thoughts and behaviors behind the problem and offer practical solutions that our clients can use to change and grow.

For many of us the work that we are engaged with today is connected to a past traumatic event. It can be frustrating or discouraging to find that past wounds have followed us and continue to affect our work and relationships in the present. Often we try to control and eliminate these feelings and memories, only to find that they continue to influence our lives and weigh down our sense of well-being. But there is a way that we can move forward in our lives and reclaim our sense of joy and feel safe despite the uncertainty that surrounds us.

Often the work of the individual is focused on maintaining and improving communication and connection with our intimate partners and families. Couple and family therapy is a tool available to couples and families who present together with the shared goal of developing deeper, stronger connections through clear communication and genuine affection.

Career Counseling & Consulting

When the challenge we are facing is more clearly defined as a vocational challenge, career counseling or consulting will provide focused assessments and interventions to address the issue. Career counseling is counseling that walks the muddy line between who you are and what you do, providing you with clear insights and actionable feedback aimed at integrating your values, interests, aptitudes, and achievements.

Many times the problem that we are facing can seem elusive and hard to define, or it may seem like the only challenge we are facing is that we aren’t thinking big enough. What do you do when you’ve achieved that which you’ve aspired to in the past? What’s next? 1:1 Consultation for organizational leadership is a service that is tailored to your unique journey, helping you to formulate new goals by exploring your connection to your deeply held personal values.

Leaders often find renewed enthusiasm by connecting with their personal values, and all too often that enthusiasm turns to exhaustion as they grapple with reconciling their organization’s cultural values with their own. Group culture-building is a consulting service whereby cultural change is guided and supported through professional assessment and intervention.