Career Coaching and
Career Development Support
If you’re looking for help navigating a current work-related challenge or support to grow and develop in your career, Career Coaching is for you!
At Canada Career Counselling, we provide comprehensive Career Coaching support to individuals at all career stages, from entry level positions to executive roles. Whether you’re experiencing conflict, making a transition, wanting to increase your influence, or looking to advance, we offer tailored support to help you navigate your work-related challenges so you can feel more confident in your career.
Our Career Coaching services are available both in-person in our Calgary and Toronto offices, as well as virtually. Our counsellors are located across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax, providing you with maximum flexibility and convenience.
Benefits of Career Coaching
Coaching with a professional Career Coach has many benefits. Our clients report:
- Gaining greater confidence, clarity, and skills to navigate challenges that arise in their professional lives and career
- Having greater opportunities for career advancement and the skills to successfully negotiate higher compensation
- Improving their skills to navigate organizational politics, including during onboarding and effectively transitioning into a new role
- Enhancing their leadership abilities (e.g. people leadership, providing effective feedback, leading diverse teams, remote/hybrid leadership)
- Developing more effective conflict management skills
- Gaining a deeper self-awareness of the thinking and behavioural patterns that support or hinder their success at work
- Improving their communication skills, both written and verbal
- Developing better boundaries with work and improving their work life balance
Key Signs that you Need a Career Coach
Signs that you may benefit from a Career Coach include:
- Feeling frustrated or stuck in your position or level
- Wanting to advance in your career but not knowing how
- Having challenges communicating with your manager, supervisor, or direct reports
- Lacking confidence about how to position your talents and readiness for promotion
- Dealing with frustrating communication or conflict with your supervisor or team
- Feeling a sense of imposter syndrome
- Noticing that you continue to run into the same challenges across roles or different workplaces
Common Career Coaching topics include:
- Leadership development
- Career progression/promotions
- Managing workplace conflict
- Effectively transitioning into a new job/role
- Navigating politics or a difficult boss
- Workplace bullying
- Challenges with work-life balance
- Communication breakdowns
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Developing personalized strategies for work success to support focus, time management, etc.
- Changes in personal circumstances
- Maternity/paternity/parental transitions
Why Choose Our Career Coaches?
Our professional Career Coaches are skilled at helping you grow and progress in your career. They bring:
- Master’s and Ph.D. level training in psychology
- Extensive experience working with clients across industries and roles
- A combination of business acumen and workplace psychology expertise to help you through the strategic and emotional aspects of your current career
Frequently Asked Questions:
What is the difference between Career Coaching and Career Counselling?
At Canada Career Counselling we use the term Career Coaching to focus on navigating your current work-related challenges and to continue growing in your career. Our professional career coaches can help you gain confidence and clarity on your career path and career advancement. Career Coaching may lead to exploring career options and making a career change, but the focus tends to be on the career path you are currently navigating.
Career Counselling focuses on exploring whether you are on the right career path and determining if changing careers is the best course of action. Our Career Counsellors and proven process help you better understand yourself, your career options, and make an informed decision about your ideal career path. Gaining clarity on your path forward through career counselling also helps your mental health, and being psychologists, psychotherapists, and clinical counsellors, we can help you with both your career and mental health needs.
How can Career Coaching help me achieve my career goals?
Career Coaching helps you navigate any challenges you may be experiencing in your career. Your Career Coach will help you to gain insight into your strengths, areas for development, and patterns at work. With these insights in mind, they will then support you to develop the relevant skills and capabilities needed to address your challenges and help you become more successful in your career. Depending on the nature of your situation, your Career Coach will work with you to identify and implement specific goals, tools, and strategies to effectively navigate your career as well as develop and grow in your life.
What can I expect from a Career Coach?
You can expect a coach who brings expertise in career and workplace psychology combined with experience across industries. Your Career Coach will be a source of guidance and support. They will help you to increase your insight, explore changes you can make, develop skills, and stay accountable along the way. Finding the right match with a Career Coach is important to ensuring success, so setting up a complimentary consultation before booking your first appointment is recommended.
Can you help me identify and overcome obstacles or challenges I’m facing in my career?
Absolutely! A Career Coach is there to help you identify, understand, and take action around challenges and hurdles you may be facing in your workplace and career. Each challenge is an opportunity to grow and develop, and your coach will help you set clear goals as well as provide you with support in overcoming these obstacles.
Where are your Career Coaching or Counselling services offered?
Extended Health Coverage
While Canada Career Counselling is a private organization that provides fee-based services, many benefits/extended health plans provide coverage for sessions and assessments with our registered practitioners.