Integrative Career Counseling

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

    I assist my clients to:

    • navigate career and life transitions 
    • redefine work and profession in "retirement"
    • build the foundations for resilient career paths
    • create and integrate personal, life affirming solutions to stress and burnout

    I invite you to try Integrated Career Counseling - a combination of career and life counseling/coaching from an experiential and existential psychological perspective. An existential counseling perspective focuses on your life, on your unique experiences, on your relationships, your diverse talents and capacities.

    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

  • Leading OUR lives with Inner Consent

    07/13/2021

    In Existential Coaching we speak of Inner Consent. Inner Consent simply put is a personally felt “yes”! Inner Consent is an internal affirmation or experienced “rightness” (not perfection!). “I can stand behind this decision I have made, this direction I have chosen to take in my life". "This activity that I am engaged in corresponds with me, it resonates with me, with my capacities, it resonates with my internal compass". "I am the one behind my decisions and actions". “I am leading my decisions and actions”. 

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  • Existential Coaching - Exercising Our Experiential Muscles

    07/13/2021

    At the heart of existential coaching is a very human desire to feel more fully present and engaged in our lives. We want to feel more alive and vibrant, to feel connected to and part of communities, and to experience healthy, valued relationships. We fear being isolated or set apart in the world. We want to feel less lonely. We want to be better able to weather and ride the waves of life. We want to find ways to tame our worry and anxiety about issues we cannot easily control: our jobs, the economy, the environment, global politics, the state of our world.

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The Interview

  • Dr. Alfried Längle, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. Phil

    07/13/2021

    Dr. Längle and I discuss fulfillment, burnout and the components of good leadership, all from an existential analytic perspective. A common element in all three is what Dr. Längle describes as the necessary “…practice of basic existential connecting”: being engaged in the world around us, being fully present in all that we do and the capacity to feel deeply connected to ourselves and our feelings.

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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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