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Career Counseling Crash Course for Clinicians

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Motivational Interviewing (MI) Strategies to Support Clients in Achieving Career Fulfillment

Speaker:
Charles Jacob, PhD
Duration:
Approx 6 hrs
Copyright:
May 08, 2026
Publisher:
PESI, Inc.
Product Code:
RNV150692
Media Type:
DVD - Also available: Digital Seminar | Live Webinar

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Description

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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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.



Speaker

Charles Jacob, PhD's Profile

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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 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.


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Objectives

  1. Distinguish between major career development theories, principles, and assessments.
  2. Analyze the impact of recent cultural and socioeconomic changes that affect client career struggles and clinician career-related interventions.
  3. Examine the basics of important career-related inventories and assessments.
  4. Analyze the particulars of CBT concepts as applicable to career counseling.
  5. Formulate strategies related to motivational interviewing that can help clients struggling with career decisions.
  6. 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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