Toronto Psychologist Amanda Tobe sitting with a client speaking about career support and planning. — **Career COUNSELLING**

Do you want to build a meaningful career?

Perhaps you're considering a career move or looking for support with creating a career plan for yourself. We are passionate about helping people build their careers inside-out and believe that soul work is the backbone of goal work. We work with many individuals across the organizational lifespan (beginning to late career) who are seeking change and meaning in their work.

This area of our practice includes: career coaching & exploration, resume development & branding, mock interview prep and supporting the creation of onboarding plans.

Common Challenges:

finding the 'right career'
feeling stuck in the career search process
indecisive and unsure about next steps
resume/personal branding
job interview feedback and strategies

Desired Outcomes:

clarity about next career steps
crafting a career for you, by you
better interview preparation strategies/increased interview performance
learn about who you are and what you really want
a resume that showcases both personality and qualifications

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LinkedIn-shy? Why the “imposter phenomenon” might be behind your reluctance to share

Professional networking platforms like LinkedIn can provoke feelings of negative comparison or come with pressure to create the ‘perfect’ page. This pressure may be why imposter syndrome tends to play out when it comes time to join, post, or update your page.

Speaking, stigma, and shame: Public speaking anxiety is something organizations shouldn't ignore

One of the questions I ask all new clients struggling with public speaking anxiety is, “do you feel like you need to conceal this problem?” The answer is almost always yes. People usually talk about the judgment they anticipate having to face—the kind that can result in pity, discomfort, negative evaluations and even demotions.

Ride the wave: 3 tools to help you rethink, redirect, and reframe your public speaking fear

Many people have butterflies when getting up in front of a crowd. However, people with public speaking anxiety feel these jitters on another level. A racing heart, shaking palms, sweating, dry mouth, lightheadedness, or nausea can all be byproducts of the panic and dread associated with this kind of fear.

Fear less, not fearless: Why accepting our fear of public speaking is the pathway to personal success

When we meet for the first time, most of my clients say their goal is to totally extinguish their fear of public speaking. However, this not only sets you up for black and white thinking—’either I get rid of my public speaking fear, or I don’t!’—it also makes the goal less attainable and reinforces the idea of the fear being a ‘bad’ thing.

“I’m so bad at this!” What social anxiety research can teach us about our negative self-talk

When our body is busy fending off panic and adrenaline, our thinking is less clear. It’s harder to concentrate, and we’re less likely to perform at our best. Research on social anxiety suggests that this is exactly what ends up happening: when we’re anxious, we perform poorly compared to our non-anxious peers.

What am I really afraid of? How understanding your fear of public speaking can help you overcome it

Bridging the gap between where you are now and where you’d like to be is easier when you can unpack, dissect, and be curious about why you’re feeling scared

Considerations for Yearly Goal Setting | Article Feature

It’s not that goal-setting needs to go out the window, rather we might want to alter our approach. It requires being agile, perhaps modifying our definitions of achievement and focusing on what I call “activity goals”.

How to Design Your Life and Career | Podcast Episode

The personal compass is a soul map, personal blueprint and self-made guide to help you gain clarity on how you want to feel in your life. This kind of soul work is needed to do the goal work in our lives.

5 Steps to Simplify Your Life | Podcast Episode

One of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves in the pursuit of living an intentional life is getting clear on how we want to feel. You’ve probably noticed many people selecting words of the year right now, which I’m all for, but they don’t help us with the ‘how’ or the discovery of how we feel when we feel at our best. In this exercise, you get to review a list of over 100 feelings to create your top 5 words, deep-seated, transformative feelings so you can simplify your life.

How To Understand And Manage Your Emotions | Podcast Episode

When you’re feeling overwhelmed or the effects of performance anxiety nothing feels more soothing than having a simple and supportive emotional toolkit of mindfulness practices to choose from.