Now more than ever, career stress is fueling client anxiety, depression, and burnout.
And now more than ever, clinicians need career counseling skills to help their clients!
Building these skills can easily elevate your clinical effectiveness – helping you guide clients toward purpose, stability, and success that transforms their mental health.
It all starts with this live, online webinar where you’ll join Dr. Charles Jacob, a psychologist with decades of experience in career guidance who knows how to help clients shape their values, decisions, and actions toward greater career fulfillment.
With evidence-based tools informed by CBT and MI, you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of how to make career counseling a part of any session where your client needs real guidance about what to do next.
Get practical, session-ready interventions to help clients unhook from limiting beliefs, resolve ambivalence and make career choices that lead to career fulfilment. Walk away equipped to:
Master career assessment measures to strengthen case conceptualization and treatment plans
Treat burnout and navigate transitions with practical, brief, session-ready protocols
Implement CBT-influenced interventions to anchor career choices in clients’ core values
Apply targeted Motivational Interviewing to resolve ambivalence and mobilize goal-directed action
Drive long-lasting change by converting values into clear plans, tracking progress, and refining interventions as needed
Help clients move from rumination to action for clear decisions and lasting career satisfaction.
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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
Charles Jacob, PhD, is a psychologist, research scientist, and author with over 20 years of clinical experience conducting and overseeing the delivery of mental health services to individuals with severe mood and personality disorders. He is a recognized expert in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI) and has delivered workshops, seminars, and courses on these topics at universities and institutions throughout the world. He has held numerous academic positions, and currently works as a research associate for a Washington DC-based consulting firm. He is a past president of the ACA’s Pennsylvania branch and has been a featured interviewee on several episodes of NPR’s The Pulse.
Dr. Jacob completed his PhD in the counseling ed program at the Pennsylvania State University followed by a year of postgraduate training at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at Penn. He was a Fulbright Specialist through the US Department of State, is certified in DBT and is an Evergreen Certifications approved CBT-C consultant.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Charles Jacob maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with U.S. Department of Commerce/Department of Labor and the Pennsylvania State University. He receives royalties as a published author. Charles Jacob receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Charles Jacob is a member of the American Counseling Association.
Distinguish between major career development theories, principles, and assessments.
Analyze the impact of recent cultural and socioeconomic changes that affect client career struggles and clinician career-related interventions.
Examine the basics of important career-related inventories and assessments.
Analyze the particulars of CBT concepts as applicable to career counseling.
Formulate strategies related to motivational interviewing that can help clients struggling with career decisions.
Choose appropriate career-related intervention strategies applicable to specific treatment settings, populations, and presenting concerns.
Outline
Important Concerns Related to Career and Well-Being
Latest updates on overall career trends and struggles
Career stress and satisfaction from Pew Research Center
Basics of career burnout and its impact on mental health writ large
Research on what AI really means for your clients’ careers
Mental Health & The Workplace
Intersection of mental health problems and career indecision/challenges
Research and statistics related to career struggles and depression/suicidal ideation
Research and statistics related to work stress and anxiety
Basics of panic disorder and performance anxiety
Bringing Career Counseling into Daily Practice
Background on career counseling as a part of clinical work
The basics of Super, Holland, Krumboltz, and Gottfredson in the year 2026
Cognitive Information Processing
Career counseling strategies for generalist practitioners
Framing a session using career counseling principles with practical examples
Key Assessments & Inventories
Interest inventories
Career Decision-Making inventories
Personality assessments
Skill/Aptitude assessments
Value/Motivational assessments
Population-Specific assessments
Motivational Interviewing Strategies to Help Clients:
Balance ambivalence and willingness to change
Resolve ambivalence in career decision-making
Address ambivalence specific to burnout and/or career stagnation
Blending elements of ACT to improve value-based decision-making
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques to Help Clients:
Build cognitive flexibility related to ambiguous or value-based career choices
Improve internal dialogue related to career decision-making processes
Coordinate specific action plans to address career-specific concerns
Strategies for Community Mental Health & Multiculturalism
Applications of multicultural and diversity principles
Balancing guidance with advocacy
Basic community mental health case example
Ethics, risks, and limitations
Case Studies & Examples
Applying career principles to private practice
Applying career principles to community mental health
Target Audience
Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals
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Additional Participant CE Test
Additional Participant CE must be purchased for each additional viewer. These viewers will watch the video with the main registrant, but will have individual access to course handouts and certification. The standard price of this program includes certification for main viewer.
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