Therapists, like our team here at Flourish Psychology, are here to help you manage your mental health. We are also here to guide you and act as a sounding board for your thoughts, concerns, and needs. It is that latter service that brings people to therapists when they’re looking for a career change.
Our therapists are able to provide a service known as “career counseling.” Career counseling helps individuals navigate their professional paths, make informed career choices, and address challenges related to job satisfaction and career development.
With career counseling, we provide support and strategies that help clients understand themselves, their goals, and the various factors influencing their career decisions, using techniques that:
Facilitate Self-Discovery and Self-Awareness
One of the primary roles of a therapist in career counseling is to help clients gain a deeper understanding of themselves. This involves exploring personal values, interests, strengths, weaknesses, and personality traits that can influence career choices. Through assessments, guided discussions, and reflective exercises, therapists help clients identify:
Core values that drive motivation and job satisfaction
Skills and competencies that align with specific career paths
Personality traits that may affect workplace dynamics and job performance
Long-term goals and aspirations
By fostering this self-awareness, we are able to enable clients to make informed career decisions that align with their authentic selves, leading to greater fulfillment and success in their chosen – or new – professions.
Address Career-Related Anxiety and Stress
Career transitions, job searches, and workplace challenges can be significant sources of stress and anxiety. Our therapists use our experience in mental health to help clients manage these emotional hurdles by providing coping strategies and emotional support. Techniques such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness practices, and stress management tools can help clients overcome anxiety related to job interviews, career changes, work/life demands, and more.
Help Clients Develop Decision-Making Skills
Those in high profile careers are often tasked with making difficult decisions both in their jobs and for themselves, personally. Making these decisions can be overwhelming, especially when faced with multiple options, uncertainty, or profound financial risk.
Our career counseling therapists guide clients through structured decision-making processes, helping them evaluate their options, weigh the pros and cons, and consider the long-term implications of their choices.
Provide Career Assessment and Exploration Tools
Therapists that provide career counseling use various assessment tools to help clients explore their interests, aptitudes, and potential career paths. These tools include personality assessments, interest inventories, skill evaluations, and values assessments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Holland Code, or StrengthsFinder. By interpreting the results of these assessments, therapists can:
Help clients gain insights into suitable career options
Identify areas of growth and development
Align clients’ strengths with potential job opportunities
Create personalized career development plans
These assessments offer a structured approach to exploring career possibilities, helping clients feel more informed and confident in their choices.
Support Career Transitions and Change Management
Many individuals seek career counseling during times of transition, such as changing industries, returning to work after a break, or navigating job loss. Therapists guide clients through these transitions by offering emotional support and practical strategies for adapting to change. This includes:
Helping clients redefine their professional identity and goals
Assisting with resume building, job search strategies, and interview preparation
Encouraging resilience during periods of uncertainty
Providing tools to manage the stress and emotions associated with change
Our therapists help clients view career transitions as opportunities for growth, enabling them to adapt more effectively and embrace new challenges.
Identify and Addressing Workplace Issues
Therapists often work with clients to address challenges they face in their current work environment, such as conflicts with colleagues, workplace bullying, burnout, or a lack of job satisfaction. In this role, therapists help clients develop communication and conflict resolution skills, establish healthy boundaries and work-life balance, address imposter syndrome or feelings of inadequacy, and explore strategies for coping with workplace stress
Enhance Soft Skills and Professional Development
Soft skills, such as communication, teamwork, adaptability, and leadership, are essential for career advancement. Therapists help clients develop these skills by identifying areas for improvement and providing strategies for growth. This can involve:
Role-playing exercises to improve communication and interpersonal skills
Coaching on leadership and management techniques
Providing feedback on professional behaviors and attitudes
By focusing on soft skills development, therapists contribute to clients’ overall professional growth and readiness for career advancement.
Promote Long-Term Career Resilience and Adaptability
In today’s rapidly changing job market, adaptability and resilience are key to long-term career success. Therapists play a vital role in preparing clients for ongoing career development by helping them:
Embrace a mindset of lifelong learning and skill development
Adapt to changes in the job market or industry
Set realistic career goals and action plans
Cultivate resilience to bounce back from setbacks or challenges
By instilling these qualities, therapists enable clients to navigate the ups and downs of their careers with greater confidence and flexibility.
The Comprehensive Role of Therapists in Career Counseling
Therapists in career counseling serve as guides, mentors, and coaches, helping clients navigate the complex and often stressful world of career development. Their roles extend beyond simply matching clients with job opportunities – they address the psychological, emotional, and practical aspects of career planning, ensuring clients are well-equipped to make informed decisions and manage the challenges that arise.
Flourish Psychology is a boutique private practice that works with those looking for more out of their career. We spend most of our lives working. You should be able to love your job and make decisions according to your own values. If you’re in the NYC area and you’re ready to gets started, please reach out to Flourish Psychology, today.
Flourish Psychology is a boutique private practice that often works with those in the public eye – celebrities, CEOs, lawyers, politicians, and other high profile clients. It is that work that we do that often makes us one of the leading therapists for influencers – a career that is directly in front of the public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Influencers and content creators, for their careers, often live on their phones. But this can be a problem for their mental health.
Beyond Social Media
Many people – including right here at Flourish Psychology – have discussed the mental health challenges that can come from being a social media figure. It can be a very difficult profession. Negative comments, perfectionism, exploitation – content creators often struggle with issues such as anxiety and depression that come from such a public facing career.
We encourage you to view our “influencer therapy” page or blog posts like our phone addiction post if you’d like more information about those topics.
However, some of the issues that people experience when they’re influencers go beyond the comments, judgement, and other social media challenges. Many influencers – and non-influencers – also struggle with what’s known as “Digital Overload.”
Digital overload affects anyone that is on their phone too often. It refers to the constant, massive consumption of digital content that many of us engage in every day.
Our brains are not designed to consume that much media at once, on that many topics, in this type of means. Every day, those that are on their phones or tablets too often – which includes not only social media influencers, but also most adults these days – are consuming massive, massive amounts of media right in front of their eyes, cutting off the outside world in the process.
This is too much for our brains to handle. We aren’t built with the ability to process that much information. It’s important to remember that, while it can feel like this information is easy to consume, our brains find this level of processing to be stressful. As a result, we become more likely to develop:
Stress
Anxiety
Poor Concentration
Depression, and More
When our brains are overloaded with this much information, it can also lead to fatigue, insomnia, forgetfulness, and more. All of this can also occur subconsciously – meaning, you do not realize it is happening, and may feel “fine” or even relaxed while you’re on your phone. But behind the scenes, your brain is becoming more and more stressed.
Everyone, regardless of profession, benefits from reducing their information consumption and, ultimately, their digital overload.
But influencers are in a rough spot – you work online, which means that you need to be not only on a screen, but specifically on your phone. In addition, the more interaction you have and the more you do online, the more you can create content and build your brand.
Already at higher risk for depression, anxiety, and perfectionism, this added screen time and digital overload runs the risk of continuing to create more and more stress while also making it more difficult to cope with online and offline life.
What Can Be Done?
Unless you plan to give up being a social media celebrity, it will instead become important to have a strategy that you stick to with managing your online life. Examples may include:
Limit your working hours. Make sure that you’re only on your phone intentionally and be completely offline when you’re not working.
Limit your unnecessary content. Only follow people that are good for your career and follow friends/family, limiting all other unnecessary interactions and content.
Fill your “unplugged” time with outdoor activities, exercise, friends (without the content), and other things that reduce stress.
We also encourage you to reach out to Flourish Psychology. We’ll work with you on stress coping, time management, anxiety reduction, and how to log off when you lead a largely digital life. Through therapy, we can help provide support to give you back control and aid in your long term mental health.
If you’re struggling with digital overload, or you have anxiety, stress, phone addiction, or other issues potentially caused by being online too often, reach out to Flourish Psychology, today. If you’re interested in more personalized support, learn more about our exclusive mental health services.
Panic attacks are intense. They are difficult. They can be so powerful and so immense both physically and mentally that many people start to fear them.
They are also very hard to stop without help, and one of the reasons they are so difficult to stop is because panic attacks – and the fear of having another panic attack – cause a cycle that makes it very difficult to stop future attacks without the support of an experienced therapist.
The Cycle of Panic Attacks
All anxiety has physical symptoms, but panic attacks are specifically physical events. Although they do trigger symptoms that affect thoughts and emotions, it is their physical symptoms that are most disruptive:
Rapid Heartbeat
Chest Pain
Trouble Breathing
Weakness
Sweating, and More
The cognitive symptoms also are connected to the physical ones. People experience “feelings of doom,” for example, that enhance the effects of these physical symptoms. There is a reason that many people seek out medical professionals when they have panic attacks, because it can be hard to believe something like anxiety can trigger that type of reaction.
Because panic attacks are so physical, we start to fear them. And like most things we fear, we become both:
Easily triggered when we think a panic attack is coming.
More likely to monitor our bodies for signs of an attack.
These have names: “hypersensitivity” and “self-monitoring.” We see them with most people that have frequent panic attacks. When we struggle with panic attacks and panic disorder, we tend to be more sensitive to sensations our bodies experience and more likely to notice them. Once we do, they can trigger more anxiety.
Finally, panic attacks are also stressful on the body. Over time, they can cause physical symptoms related to chronic stress, and chronic stress itself causes a variety of physical symptoms – including strange ones that may not normally be associated with stress.
So what typically happens when someone has panic attacks is the following:
Person experiences a very minor sensation of some kind, possibly caused by stress.
They notice the sensation immediately due to their self-monitoring.
They immediately react with fear as though a panic attack is coming.
Their hypersensitivity means their anxiety symptoms feel more pronounced.
Their fear that a panic attack is coming increases, causing more anxiety.
Their anxiety triggers a panic attack.
It’s also not a cycle that is easily in someone’s control. It is very hard to talk yourself out of it without help. Because the person is also living with frequent stress, they are likely to always have triggers – for example, the stress from recurring panic attacks can lead to breathing poorly, blurry vision, a jump in one’s heartbeat, and all of those trigger the fear that a panic attack is coming.
People with panic attacks may also develop health anxiety and other challenges as a result of these attacks, leading to even more anxiety-related triggers.
Stopping the Cycle
It is for these reasons that panic attacks often benefit from and require professional help. It is very, very difficult to stop this panic attack cycle without support, because your body is essentially primed to experience panic attacks. The work that is required to stop this cycle takes time – it requires retraining your mind, teaching yourself to relax, helping you cope with stresses, and more.
During that time, a person may still have panic attacks – although hopefully much less frequently. But with a therapist there with you, it’s also possible to address those without struggling with setbacks and gain those reminders that all the effort you are putting into reducing the attacks is worth your time.
Working with a therapist that specializes in anxiety is one of the best ways to make sure that you can stop that cycle. At Flourish Psychology, our therapists can make sure that you’re getting the support you need for panic attacks, anxiety, stress, and more, all with evidence based techniques. Get started today in NYC with Flourish Psychology, a boutique private practice.
Couples counseling – and couples therapy – is evidence based. We *know,* based on science, that these approaches work, and with the right guidance and support, you can improve communication, build trust, and see an improvement in your relationship.
But one thing that is important to understand is that a relationship is not only two people, but two unique, distinctive, entirely separate people. While couples counseling is designed to enhance the relationship, sometimes it is an individual’s needs that are just as important.
The Challenges an Individual Brings Into a Relationship
How couples communicate, how they build memories, how they tackle problems – these are all important for the relationship to succeed, and all parts of what make a relationship successful. They’re also issues that can be best worked on together, so that both partners are being pointed in the same direction and have a better understanding of each other’s needs and expectations.
Still, within a relationship, it is often the individual that needs to be addressed – either in addition to or even as an alternative to couples counseling. For example:
Anxiety and Depression – If one partner has anxiety and/or depression, it can be especially difficult to be present in the relationship. If they’re overstressed or worrying about many things, it can come out as irritability or damage a marriage.
Trauma – Past traumas play a tremendous role in our ability to manage a relationship. Unresolved trauma can make it hard for us to show affection, love, accept affection, feel connection, and more.
Individual Relationship Issues – Sometimes, within a relationship, a person needs to work through their issues privately or more personally rather than in front of their partner. It may be because the information feels too sensitive, or because they are individual issues and the partner is not necessarily someone to bring into the conversation yet.
Work stress, financial issues, even infidelity – there are many issues that a person may find would be better to address individually with a therapist, rather than with their partner in a couples counseling setting. Individual therapy can also help augment traditional couples counseling, giving each partner a chance to talk in private with a therapist about things they are not (yet) ready to talk about with their partners that came up during counseling.
Addressing the Individual and the Couple
Couples counseling remains one of the best tools we have for repairing a relationship. But that doesn’t mean that it is the only approach that will work. There are going to be those that may benefit from individual therapy, either in general or in the context of the relationship. Mental health is complex, and working together, we can determine the best way to make sure you’re living your best life and getting the most from the relationship. For more information about our couples counseling services in Brooklyn, please contact Flourish Psychology, today.
Society – and couples – are facing situations they have never faced before, and are being forced to adjust to those situations very quickly. One example of this is how to appropriately use technology while in a relationship. This is something that couples have essentially only faced in the past 20 years, especially with regards to smartphones.
We’re also now trying our best to figure out how to talk about these issues with each other and in therapy. An example of this is what we’re going to call “digital betrayal” – when you betray the trust of your partner by engaging in some behavior with technology that your partner feels you should not do.
Examples of Digital Betrayal
Digital betrayal is when you betray a partner through a phone, tablet, or other form of online technology, but did not necessarily betray them in person. It’s not infidelity in the typical sense, where someone engages in physical sexual behavior with another partner. Rather, it’s a form of trust betrayal that occurs solely online, and almost always without the other partner knowing. Examples may include:
Chatting or messaging an ex lover, celebrity, or member of the opposite sex in secret.
Watching pornography at inappropriate times or storing photos/video on their phone.
Sending or receiving sexual imagery from someone other than a spouse.
Not all “digital betrayal” is going to be sexual or romantic in nature, either. Betrayal can come in many forms, such as being on a person’s phone instead of getting an important task done, staying up playing games when you should be sleeping, or saying very overly negative things about a partner in a situation where sharing that information is not appropriate.
Another potentially common form of digital betrayal may also be looking at someone’s phone and private messages without consent. Our phones can have private conversations, and individual partners are allowed to have these conversations without the other partner reading them in secret.
No matter the type of “betrayal,” the commonality among all of them is that it breaks trust in the relationship and causes pain that both partners need to address.
Working Through Digital Betrayal in Couples Counseling
This issue between couples is new and complex. In some cases, there is a very clear betrayal of trust that both partners can acknowledge. In other cases, there may be layers – for example, someone may not understand why what they did was wrong, or may feel defensive about their technology usage. There are also issues with phone addiction and connection that may arise.
“Online infidelity,” and other similar betrayals of trust, are typically all factors that chip away at a relationship. In fact, even minor issues can become very serious problems in a relationship. If one partner does not trust another, they can sometimes rebuild that trust through spending time together and sharing conversations and experiences.
But digital trust is something that occurs almost entirely on a phone, and the thing is, most of us are going to still be on our phones. Being on the phone is also a solo activity, which means that a partner is going to be on their phone, semi-in secret, by themselves. This may lead to more distrust, among other relationship issues between partners.
It can be very difficult to break patterns on your own. Couples therapy offers a path to healing by addressing these issues directly and working to rebuild the trust that has been lost.
Couples therapy provides a safe space for partners to confront the betrayal, express their feelings, and begin the process of rebuilding trust. The therapy is structured to help both partners understand the underlying issues that may have contributed to the betrayal and to develop strategies for moving forward together.
Open Communication – A key element of the therapy process is fostering open and honest communication. This allows both partners to share their thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment, creating a foundation for understanding and reconciliation. In this case, we would discuss fears, behaviors that have affected trust, and more.
Identifying Boundaries – Couples therapy also focuses on helping partners establish and agree upon clear boundaries in the digital realm. This might include setting rules for online interactions, discussing what is considered appropriate behavior, and agreeing on how to handle potential future challenges.
Rebuilding Trust – Trust is the cornerstone of any relationship, and rebuilding it after a digital betrayal can be a complex process. Therapists work with couples to gradually restore trust by encouraging transparency, consistency in actions, and emotional support. This process takes time, but with commitment and effort from both partners, it is possible to rebuild a stronger, more resilient relationship.
Recovering from digital betrayal is not easy, but couples therapy offers a structured approach to healing. By addressing the issues head-on and working together, couples can begin to rebuild the trust that has been lost. The therapy helps partners develop the tools they need to navigate the complexities of the digital world while maintaining a healthy, trusting relationship.
Get Started Today with Flourish Psychology
Flourish Psychology has an incredibly talented team of therapists that can provide couples counseling and related services to help you with these complex problems. We can also provide individual therapy, for those that are trying to gain a better understanding of themselves and take more control over their own behaviors.
At Flourish Psychology, we believe in helping both partners learn to better understand each other, and eventually themselves, and take a scientific approach to these types of relationship problems in order for both of you to move forward. For more information about our couples counseling services in NYC, please contact Flousih Psychology, today.
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