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SkyeHelps Counseling & Wellness provides career counseling services to teens and adults.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
When we are young, our world is small. People asked what we wanted to be when we grew up and we answered with what was familiar. As the pressures of high school and college mount, the questions become much more nuanced and overwhelming. We graduate and are expected to start our journey to our forever job. Hopefully, it works out great! But sometimes it doesn’t. The career we thought we wanted doesn’t suit us or isn’t available to us. Choosing a career can be extremely anxiety-producing, confusing, and sometimes hopeless. But, it can also be fun, exciting, and manageable!
What is Career Counseling?
In the last few decades, Professional Counseling has become focused on Mental Health. However, Professional Counseling started as vocational guidance counseling after hundreds of thousands of skilled men and women returned from their duties after World War I. The goal focused on preventing bad choices and developing purpose through meaningful work. The field has developed over time to also encompass wellness, life-span development, mindfulness, psychometrics, and remediation of mental disorders.
Our training includes career counseling as part of our basic education in our master’s program. In fact, each of our clinicians at SkyeHelps went through the career counseling process themselves. Career counseling involves a basic interview, interest inventories, personality measures, and skills building. We make a plan to develop needed skills, acquire needed education, and make necessary connections for you to pursue your chosen career path.
Who can benefit from Career Counseling?
Highschool and college students may find it helpful to work with us to discover their personality type and general interests. These factors tend to be very stable over time and can be extremely helpful in understanding which career fields are best suited to their neurology and propensities. Understanding these elements can assist in creating an education plan throughout highschool and college that will lead to a confident post-graduation career plan.
Adults questioning their career choice may find it helpful to work with us to gain insight into what aspects of their career were helpful and unhelpful, where they can find meaning in their journey, and navigate a way forward. Retirees may want to process the meaning of their past work and how to find purpose in the future.
Career Counseling Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to be currently enrolled in a school?
No, it is not necessary for you to be enrolled in school to participate in career counseling at SkyeHelps. We offer our services for a fee.
How is SkyeHelps career Counseling & Support different from the service at my school?
1. You don’t need to be currently enrolled to work with us. We’ll see you no matter where you are in your education. We see high school students, people who have quit school, traditional college students, gap year students, GED students, non-traditional students, elderly students, and anyone else can legitimately call themselves a student.
2. Our services can extend for as long as you need them. Many schools do their best to offer a complete set of services, but budget constraints, personnel, and the school calendar can all impose limits on school counseling services. Since SkyeHelps is private, we are able to work with you without these limitations.
3. We’re off-campus and therefore better able to protect your privacy. On the other hand, your school’s counseling services are located on campus, right where everyone can see who is coming and going from the counseling offices.
4. We don’t have a bias about whether and how you should pursue your education. SkyeHelps is not part of a school and does not receive any funding from a school. Therefore, we have no incentive to “push” education. On the contrary, we’re here to help you figure out what’s best and most meaningful for you. Furthermore, therapeutic process encourages you to answer these questions, and we don’t give advice. Our job is help you work through the problem.
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