Career Therapy

Improve Career Confidence

Ease Search Anxiety | Smooth Workforce Re-entry | Improve Workplace Communication

(503) 575-8217

Overcome Internal Obstacles to Career Success

Do anxiety and depression impede the effectiveness of your job search?

Are negative thoughts and expectations sapping your energy to move forward in your career?

Have past toxic jobs undermined your career confidence?

Do you need help communicating with your manager or coworkers?

Do you want to reconnect with your strengths to re-enter the workforce?

My Counseling Background will Inspire and Help You

I bring you:

  • Knowledge of counseling approaches and tools gained through a Master’s of Counseling from the University of Oregon.

  • Experience in counseling and coaching as a crisis counselor and coach working with neurodiverse clients.

  • Empathy gained from my background as part of a family with four generations experiencing depression and anxiety.

  • A success lens gained from 25 years of helping clients find career direction or jobs balancing financial and emotional well-being.

Together, We’ll Reduce Your Stress and Build Your Confidence

When we meet, I will:

  • Listen to your career background, aspirations, and the barriers you face.

  • Provide confidential trauma-informed counseling where you’ll be safe to reveal your vulnerabilities and fears. 

  • Learn the emotional triggers you experience relevant to your job search and the tools you currently use to address them.

  • Help you set priority goals for behaviors and beliefs that you holding you back.

We will select tools and approaches  most helpful to you such as:

  • Replacing spiraling negative self-talk with realistic helpful self-talk.  

  • Integrating approaches from your past successes in reducing depression or anxiety.   

  • Understanding the parts of yourself that block career progress.

  • Skillfully request support from your family, friends, or co-workers.

  • Reduce stress through setting boundaries, self-care, and fun.

If you already have a therapist, I’ll ask you about their style and favorite tools (from mindfulness to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and we’ll explore how we can apply these tools directly to the job search or career transition process.

Since my coaching and counseling focus on planning your career future, you may also need a licensed personal therapist for diagnosis, treatment plans, and ongoing healing from trauma. 

“Vicki listens, quickly grasps the source of my challenge, and reframes my catastrophic thinking into realistic self-talk. Then she offers a few options to help me move forward so I can reflect on what I’m ready to do next.” ~ UG, Coach

Individual Sessions: $130 per hour or a package of 9 sessions for $925

Thirty-minute complimentary exploration call.


"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I?

And if not now, when?~ Rabbi Hillel