Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction.

  • 2

    Chapter 1: Career truths.

  • 3

    Chapter 2: Your career identity.

    • Outline / Career interests.

    • Finding your Holland Code.

    • Identifying your top career values.
  • 4

    Chapter 3: Learning about careers.

    • Outline.

    • Online career research.

    • More career research.
  • 5

    Chapter 4: Testing out your career hypothesis.

    • Outline.

    • Step 1: Professional experience.

    • Step 2: Connecting with professionals.

    • Step 3: Connecting with your own personal work.
  • 6

    Chapter 5: The emotional work of being a therapist.

    • Outline.

    • Self-doubt.

    • Managing your emotional reactions.

    • Accepting feedback.

    • Truths about change and growth.

    • Concluding thoughts.
  • 7

    Chapter 6: When the emotional work gets tough.

    • Outline.

    • Retiring from perfectionism.

    • Taking care of yourself when there is other work to be done.

    • What to do if your supervisor identifies you for remediation.
  • 8

    Chapter 7: A good career can look many different ways.

    • Outline.

    • Specialize or generalize: Honoring our limits.

    • It's OK to place limits around your work.

    • Finding your "in addition to"...

    • Finding your "instead of"...

    • Final considerations.
  • 9

    Conclusion.

    • Thank you and good-bye!