PACDA: Integrative Career Counseling: Keeping our Career Clients on Track When Mental Health Issues Emerge (Zoom)

Integrative Career Counseling:

Keeping our Career Clients on Track When Mental Health Issues Emerge

Thursday, November 30, 2023

12 - 2 PM

Many clients seeking career counseling are also struggling with anxiety, depression or other mental illness. Ignoring a client’s mental health struggles isn’t productive or humane, but getting sidetracked by those mental health issues isn’t helpful, either. How can career professionals strike the right balance? The Integrative Career Counseling (ICC) framework provides a roadmap for navigating the mental health issues our career clients experience.

Participants will learn the four levels of the ICC framework, and then practice applying the framework to real-world client challenges.

Presenter: Karen James Chopra, LPC, CCC, NCC

Karen Chopra has been a career counselor in private practice for nearly twenty-five years. She founded Chopra Careers and has helped hundreds of clients with career exploration, job search, and career management. She also helps career professionals and therapists launch and grow their own private practices. Ms. Chopra presents regularly at professional conferences and has been interviewed for articles and podcasts, including by CNN, Money, and NPR. She is the creator of the Integrative Career Counseling (ICC) framework. An expert in workplace negotiations, she created the Certified Salary Negotiation Specialist (CSNS) credential with the Career Planning Academy. She is the author of the book Coaching Career Clients on Salary and Other Workplace Negotiations. The Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association honored her for Outstanding Professional Contributions and as a Goodwill Ambassador. The Maryland Career Development Association has honored her with their Outstanding Career Practitioner and Lifetime Achievement awards.