Career

Whether you’re looking to build or future-proof your career, explore new directions, or navigate workplace challenges, career development support can help you build clarity, develop skills, and move forward confidently.

What Career Development and Coaching Includes

Career development support takes a psychological perspective on your career, applying positive psychology and strength-based approaches. This might include exploring your values, strengths, and what matters most to you in your work. It could involve clarifying career direction, exploring new options, or developing strategies for career growth and transition. Career coaching can support you with interview skills, resume development, networking strategies, and job search approaches. It can help you navigate workplace challenges, develop leadership skills, or manage career transitions like promotions, role changes, or career pivots. It’s focused on practical skills and career development alongside psychological support.

How Career Coaching Might Help You

Many people find that career development support helps them gain clarity about their direction. You might discover strengths you weren’t fully aware of, or clarify what kind of work environment and role would best suit you. If you’re in transition – job searching, changing roles, or considering a career change – support can help you navigate this more confidently. Career coaching can help you develop practical skills in areas like interviewing, resume writing, or networking – skills that can feel daunting but become easier with practice and feedback. If you’re facing workplace challenges, coaching can help you develop strategies to navigate them or explore whether a change might be beneficial. The collaborative, strength-based approach helps you move forward with confidence based on a realistic understanding of your capabilities and values.

Our Approach to Career Development

Working with a psychologist or coach at Growth Psychology, you’ll receive a psychologically-informed approach to career development. We help you explore your values, strengths, and what brings you meaning in your work. This creates a foundation for decisions about your career direction. We use evidence-based approaches to help you develop clarity about career goals and practical strategies to achieve them. Whether it’s job search strategies, interview preparation, resume feedback, or navigating workplace challenges, we offer practical support. We’re strengths-focused – identifying and building on your capabilities – and future-focused, helping you envision and move toward your ideal career path. Sessions are collaborative and tailored to your specific needs and goals. Learn more about our therapeutic approaches.

When to Seek Support

If you’re unsure about your career direction, exploring a change, navigating a transition, or wanting to develop specific career skills – seeking support can help. Career development work can increase clarity, confidence, and capability as you move forward in your career.

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Our practicitioners with a focus on Career

Lara Patty - Psychologist

Lara is a registered Psychologist who offers a warm, collaborative, and emotionally grounded approach to therapy. She supports adolescents (16+) and adults across experiences such as anxiety, depression, stress, identity concerns, relationship and attachment patterns, the impacts of difficult childhood experiences, and life transitions. Lara integrates evidence‑informed approaches—including Schema Therapy, CBT, and ACT—to help clients explore their inner world and develop compassionate, authentic ways of relating to themselves and others.

Carolyn Alchin - Career Development Practitioner

Carolyn is an experienced career development practitioner and counsellor with a Masters of Education (Career Development). She enjoys enabling all populations to see, reach, and enhance their career potential. She has over 20 years’ practical experience in mentoring, recruitment, advising and counselling, teaching and education development.

Berni Cooper - Wellbeing Strategist & Educator

Berni is a professional coach with a Master of Applied Positive Psychology and a Bachelor of Social Sciences Hons (Psychology). She has over 15 years’ experience in coaching, mentoring, advising and training.

Shelley Phillips - Psychologist

Shelley Phillips is a registered Psychologist who offers a warm, caring, and evidence‑informed approach to supporting mental health and wellbeing. She draws on CBT, ACT, Positive Psychology, and strengths‑based practices to help clients explore challenges in life and work. Shelley also supports clients navigating job selection processes, career development, and workplace stress. She has experience working with emergency services personnel and has worked as a psychology lecturer, mentor, and supervisor.

Gregory Dean - Endorsed Counselling Psychologist

Greg is an Endorsed Counselling Psychologist with more than thirty years of experience supporting people across a wide range of life challenges. He works collaboratively with clients to explore the impact of past experiences, strengthen emotional wellbeing, and navigate patterns that influence relationships and daily life. Greg uses evidence‑informed approaches tailored to each person’s needs. Greg has worked in counselling and psychotherapy private practice in metropolitan centres and remote rural areas, in schools, government organisations, emergency services, military veterans’ organisations and in industry. He has also worked as an academic, teacher and in management and specialist roles in the mining industry.

Rita Mesch - Psychologist

Rita is a registered teacher and Psychologist who offers a supportive, non‑judgemental space for clients experiencing depression, anxiety, stress, grief, difficult or traumatic events, life transitions, and relationship concerns. She works from a Process‑Oriented Psychology framework, helping clients explore inner experiences and the patterns that influence wellbeing and personal growth.

Beth Keane - Psychologist - Practice Owner

Beth is a registered Psychologist who supports adults across a range of wellbeing and mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, life transitions, and career‑related challenges. She draws on CBT, ACT, Schema‑informed strategies, and strengths‑based, person‑centred approaches. Beth also provides services under Queensland emergency services support programs and works in training, development, and career‑related support.