Overview
As both a counselor and educator, I provide a variety of services and tools to serve the career and life transition needs of clients from high school age through retirement. For an overview, download Counseling Services Chart (if you don't have Acrobat application, download free PDF reader), and select those services, courses, or educational products that are most appropriate for you.

Client Outcomes

• Develop lifelong decision-making skills, whether you work for another entity or are self-employed, caregiving, retired, in transition, or going to school. 
• Identify your interests, values, skills, personality traits, learning style, inner motivations, environmental preferences and other strengths. 
  
• Apply what you have learned about yourself to start or grow your business, find satisfying work, or improve your current life/work situation. 
  
• Find meaning and purpose in your life; organize your life and work experiences to create a unifying life story; integrate home and work. 
• Learn how to control your presence on the Internet. 

Approach

Career used to include just those work activities that produced something of economic value, but now it is considered the progression of purposeful activities that you engage in throughout your life, including education, work, self-care, and caregiving. Living life fully is a career in itself!  As a life transitions counselor and educator, my mission is to support you in making effective lifework and educational decisions, adapting to new situations, and developing the fortitude to cope with challenges. 

Educational Tools 

• Provide entrepreneurial and career decision-making skills through the Tightrope Artist Model. 
  
• Emphasize an integration of mind/body/spirit and work/life balance. View book The Mother-Daughter Influence: Activities for Promoting Lifework Success. 
  
• Educate clients with most up-to-date employability skills needed in today's marketplace through an online, self-paced lifelong employability course and through national and international career training programs. 
  
• Make available resources for entrepreneurs and practitioners who counsel entrepreneurs through a monograph on Starting and Growing a Business Monograph (NCDA, 2007) and through Entrepreneur Kits for career advisors and their clients.
  
• Guide later-life adults in skills to manage career, caregiving, and self-care.
• Support clients in the development of electronic and hard copy resumes, vitae, professional bios, and portfolios.