Integrative Career Counseling

  • Welcome!

    I offer convenient online career, life and retirement counseling/coaching to clients globally.

    I assist my clients in:

    • navigating career and life transitions 
    • redefining work and profession in "retirement"
    • building the foundations for resilient career paths
    • creating and integrating personal, life affirming solutions to stress and burnout

     

    I invite you to try Integrative Career Counseling - an approach to career counseling/coaching from experiential, existential and narrative psychological perspectives. This approach focuses on your lived experiences, your diverse talents and capacities, your values, and your relationship with work and career.

    I am committed to supporting, guiding and encouraging you through this personalized process by helping you integrate and leverage your experiences, your evolving skills and what you value deeply to co-create customized approaches to work and career.

    We have a life-long relationship with work and career. As such, my aim is to help you continue to move forward in your life with greater awareness, insight and perspective, and that our work will enable you to continually combine what is possible with personally meaningful decisions and actions.

    To book a 25 minute consultation call please contact me at brittmari@brittmarisykes.ca. I welcome any questions you may have and I look forward to speaking with you.

    Integrative career counseling focuses on understanding a client’s unique experiences, specific contexts and personal resources, and working collaboratively with them to create and map out meaningful and relevant steps forward.

     

     

Editorials

  • Searching For Careers We Are Passionate About

    11/29/2021

    I work with many young adults grappling with decisions about what to study at College or University and/or what career paths to pursue.

    Two contrasting phrases I hear often in relation to this age group are: "failure to launch" and " wanting a career they are passionate about". What I often see among them is not so much a failure to launch but a decision paralysis.  This paralysis stems from fear of choosing a career path that may not lead to work they are "passionate" about.

     

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  • Why Is It Important To Become Familiar With How We Work?

    11/28/2021

    We are beginning to accept the fact that most of us will have several different jobs/careers in our lifetime. In order to navigate career change(s) and transition(s), it is increasingly important to become more aware of, and more skilled at, both understanding and articulating “how” we work.

    The “how” is a vital ingredient we need to add to our offering – as important as learned skills, innate skills, education and training.

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The Interview

  • Leslee S. Brown PhD

    11/19/2021

    We often focus heavily on the acquisition of skills and capacities when discussing career paths. However, the vitality, fulfillment and expansion of our professional expertise comes to life through our collaborations, our on-going learning and our integration of new perspectives. In this interview with Leslee S. Brown PhD, founder and president of MindBodyPassport Inc., we see an illustration of professional vitality and expansion in a psychologist’s experience collaborating and learning with other psychologists from around the globe.

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Testimonials

  • Working with Britt-Mari was one of the most powerful and fulfilling personal and career experiences I have had the privilege of going through. Britt Mari has an ability to guide you into your inner world in a manner that enables you to...

    A.Were, Nairobi, Kenya

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