Career Coaching

It can be, especially if you’ve been thinking about the same career problem for six months and are somehow no closer to making a decision.
Our career coaches are trained and experienced in helping people work through career decisions, changes and all the complicated stuff that comes with figuring out what you actually want to do with a very large portion of your waking hours.
Career coaching gives you an actual place to sort through what you want, what you’re good at, what matters to you, what you absolutely do NOT want to do anymore, and what your realistic options are.
Sometimes you need information. Sometimes you need a plan. And sometimes you need someone to point out that you’ve said “I hate my job” fourteen times in the last 30 minutes.

YES. You do not need to show up with three career options and a colour-coded five-year plan.

You can literally show up with, “I have no idea what I want to do, I just know I don’t want to do this anymore.”

We can work with that.

We’ll look at what you’re good at, what you actually enjoy, what kind of life you want your job to fit into, what matters to you financially, and which options make sense in the real world.

Because “follow your passion” is lovely advice until your passion pays $34,000 a year and you have a mortgage.

Yep. And we’re not automatically going to tell you to quit.

Sometimes your job really does need to go. Sometimes you’re burnt out. Sometimes it’s your boss. Sometimes the actual career is fine, but your workplace is terrible. Sometimes you need better boundaries, fewer responsibilities or a change that doesn’t involve dramatically handing in your resignation on a Tuesday.

We can help you sort out what’s actually making you miserable and what your options are before you make a major decision.

Absolutely.

Changing careers can be exciting. It can also make you question every decision you’ve made since grade nine.

Career coaching can help you figure out what you want to move toward, not just what you’re desperate to get away from.

We can look at your existing skills, other careers they could transfer into, what additional education or training you might need, your financial reality and what a career change could actually look like.

You do not necessarily need to blow up your entire life and start from scratch.

Honestly, there can be a lot of overlap.

Both can help you figure out career direction, make decisions, identify strengths, work through career changes and decide what comes next.

Career coaching tends to be more focused on practical career goals, decision-making and action. Career counselling may also spend more time on the emotional or mental health stuff connected to work, like anxiety, confidence, burnout or patterns that keep showing up.

At Rebound, we have mental health professionals who understand both sides, because unfortunately your work life and the rest of your life did not agree to remain separate.

Yes, and hating your job doesn’t automatically mean you picked the wrong career.

Maybe you’re overworked. Maybe your workplace is a mess. Maybe you haven’t taken an actual lunch break since 2023. Maybe you’ve outgrown the role. Or maybe every Sunday at approximately 4 p.m. you remember Monday exists and immediately become miserable.

We can help you figure out whether something about your current situation can change or whether it’s genuinely time to start looking at what comes next.

Yep.

Maybe you know you’re qualified but completely forget that the second someone asks, “So, tell me about yourself.”

Maybe you’ve been doing work above your pay grade for two years and still can’t bring yourself to ask for the promotion. Or you keep talking yourself out of applying for jobs because you don’t meet every single requirement.

Career coaching can help you get clear on what you bring to the table, communicate it without feeling like you’re bragging, prepare for interviews and have the career conversations you’ve been avoiding.

Yes, and we’ll look at more than whether the program sounds interesting.

Going back to school can mean tuition, lost income, childcare, commuting, two years of your life and suddenly remembering that group projects still exist.

We can look at what the education would actually qualify you to do, whether you need it for the career you want, other routes that might get you there, and whether the time and money make sense for you.

Because another degree is a pretty expensive way to avoid deciding what you want to do.

Yep!

Rebound Total Health offers virtual career coaching across Canada and the United States, so you can work with one of our career coaches from pretty much wherever you are.

You’ll meet with your coach online and work through the same career decisions, goals and next steps you would in person.

Very convenient if the job you’re considering leaving already requires enough commuting.

Right here.

Rebound Total Health offers in-person career coaching from our office in Dundas, Ontario, just outside Hamilton. We work with people from Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster, Waterdown, Burlington and surrounding areas.

We also offer virtual career coaching across Canada and the USA.

Whether you’re thinking about changing careers, hate your current job, want to move up, are considering going back to school or genuinely have no clue what you want to do next, we can start there.