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Dealing With Career Challenges and Transitions
When something affects your career, be it unemployment, a promotion, or even a new role, it’s going to have an impact on your life. It’s not always going to be a positive one, but if you’ve got the right tools to navigate career challenges and transitions then it can be.
At Craig Smardan Therapy, one of our specialties is helping you to deal with those career issues that can seem overwhelming when you’re just trying to adjust to your new life. Don’t worry – This is something that we deal with all of the time — and we can help you as you learn to adjust and excel in the new career challenges that are daunting you right now.
Career Stress Can Keep You From Realizing Your Full Potential
With career stress, therapists can often help by hearing about your workday and issues you are facing, so that the stressors may be identified and dealt with. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one way, and career counseling can also help you to manage that stress and to realize your full potential.
Here are some common symptoms that we often see in cases of career stresses or transitions into new roles:
- Worry and anxiety
- Poor job performance
- Home and work Conflicts
- Feeling Powerless and Overwhelmed
- Stress-related Indigestion, high blood pressure, aches, and other physical issues
These are just a few examples, but as you can see the stresses from work can manifest in many unpleasant ways. At Craig Smardan Therapy, we take a holistic approach that can give you exercises and mindfulness techniques that can help to keep your stress at bay and help you as you adjust to the changes in your career situation.
Sometimes All You Need is a Little Confidence
When you are given new responsibilities at your job, the stress and anxiety can be enough to make you forget that your excellent work ethic got you here in the first place. A good therapist can help you to realize your self-worth again and you’d be amazed at the difference that this can make.
Just as you conquer a large task by turning it into smaller, easier-to-digest chunks, stresses can sometimes be narrowed down to determine their original source and then effectively dealt with. Oftentimes, it’s not even what you were expecting.
For instance, while the pressures of having new roles or competing for a promotion might be making you feel panicked, it might not be the work at all. It’s not uncommon that we are pushing ourselves to impress our own family without even realizing it.
At Craig Smardan Therapy we take a holistically-driven approach to your therapy that will be custom-tailored to you – This means that we’ll be getting to know you better, as well as helping you to take apart your week so that we can determine the root cause of the stresses you are feeling.
Along with this, we can help you through mental exercises to help prepare you for the day ahead, and teach you techniques that can help you manage panic, temper, and other emotions when they try to flood into the workplace. Once we’ve gotten to the root of the problem, we can determine the best approach to beat your career stress challenges together.
Seeing Things From A Different Perspective Can Make a World of Difference
When you are working with a therapist, you’ve got a personal advisor at your disposal who has gotten to know you and can help you to widen your perspective. Many times, we take our stresses and magnify them to horrific proportions, but when we speak them aloud to others they don’t seem so big at all!
When that happens, a good therapist can ask you the right questions to help you to see the things that are stressing you as they really are, and it’s an empowering perspective that can take you far.
Many people think that therapists are there to ‘tell you what to do’, but that’s not the case. We can give you exercises to help with stress, various therapies to help treat existing issues, but tell you what to do?
That’s not part of the plan.
Good therapy is about getting to know yourself, so that you can help yourself, and we’re just here to act as a guide to help you achieve better self-awareness and the healing and happiness that comes with it.
FAQ
Can therapists really help me with work stress and career challenges?
Yes! At Craig Smardan Therapy, our therapists can teach you evidence-backed techniques to help you cope with the stresses of the day. What’s more, by spending time with you during sessions and getting to know you better, we’ll be able to tailor our approach to your career stresses so that your therapy plan is a perfect fit for your unique needs and specific goals.
What therapies help with job anxiety?
Cognitive behavioral therapy can help with job anxiety, as there is a heavy focus on changing unproductive and negative thought patterns, as well as behaviors that can contribute to your stress. Another therapy that can help with work anxiety is DBT – Dialectical Behavioral Therapy – which works by increasing your tolerance to stressful situations.
These are just two examples to give you an idea, but there are many different ways to go about this. At Craig Smardan Therapy, we’d be happy to tell you all about them and help you decide the best way forward for you!
Why choose Craig Smardan Therapy to help with my career challenges or transition stress?
At Craig Smardan Therapy, we believe that a holistic approach is the best way to empower yourself against the stresses you might feel at work or home. We practice many different types of therapies, including cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, exposure therapy—it really depends on your needs as an individual.
Give us a call and we can help you to get started on the road to healing right away! Career stress is normal, but if it’s starting to get to you then listen to yourself – It’s time to take control and Craig Smardan Therapy is happy to help you do exactly that!