FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO LOOK DEEPER THAN THE CV
Career coaching
The Hague or online.
The Hague or online.
Your work has brought you somewhere. Not by accident and not without reason. And still, some days, it feels as if you are stuck in something that no longer quite fits.
You are too good to give up, too critical to push on blindly, and too honest to act as though nothing is going on.
Something is asking for attention. Maybe a direction you have been postponing for years. Maybe a sector that no longer suits you. Maybe just a calmer version of the same work, simply in a place that fits. You do not need someone who has you take a test and gives advice. You need someone who works out with you what really sits beneath your career question.
There are questions a career test does not honestly answer. Not because tests are bad, but because they skip over the ground where your actual question is playing out.
On paper it fits. Stable income, a team that works, a nice title. And still something gnaws. You are afraid you simply do not appreciate it enough. At the same time you know that is not the honest answer.
A mortgage, children, a partner with their own agenda. The room seems small to change anything substantial. You no longer really explore the options, because why string yourself along.
You started working in something you took. You grew because the chances came. The picture of what you wanted yourself disappeared somewhere along the way into the background.
In career coaching as I do it, we do not pull a test from a shelf. We make time to look beneath your career question, at what is going on, what fits, what rubs, and what of that asks something of you.
We go beyond an inventory of skills and preferences. We look at what your work asks of you right now, what you give your best to, what it costs you, and which patterns you carry from earlier phases.
Sessions last 1.5 to 2 hours. Career questions do not let themselves be rushed. Everything is welcome. Without judgement, with full attention.
What you say here stays here. You can contradict yourself, doubt, or say something you have never said out loud. That is welcome.
Sessions take place on location in The Hague (indoor or outdoor), online, or a combination.
People who finish a career coaching package rarely leave with a concrete job advice. They leave with something much bigger.
Not the obvious answers, but the honest ones. The answers you may not have dared to say out loud for a long time.
You learn to tell which choices come from fear and which from direction. That is the difference between staying away and moving on.
Not a dream job on paper, but a way of working that fits who you are. That can be within your current role or outside of it.
Career questions rarely have a perfect answer. You learn to live with that without it blocking you or keeping you restless.
Because you have clearer what you want, you can also discuss that with your partner, family or employer. Fewer detours, more directness.
The word career coaching is used for many different forms. I briefly describe what it is in my work and where it differs from what you may know.
Classic career guidance often works with instruments. Personality tests, competency scans, work values matrices. You go through a programme and based on the results get advice. That works well for those relatively close to a choice who want an objective nudge.
My career coaching works differently. The tests are not the starting point but at most an aid. The work begins with what you bring yourself. Not what your CV says, but what is currently rubbing, attracting or going quiet in your working life.
There are a few differences. First: we spend time looking beneath your question. A career question almost never comes from nowhere. Something is going on in your life that translates into something about work. And perhaps in other life areas too. If we skip that, we answer the wrong question.
Second: we do not work towards a clear decision moment. You do not leave these sessions with a list of three sectors that suit you. You leave them with a clearer self-image and a better sense for what works for you and what does not. And trust to follow that.
Third: I work with three pillars. Psychology, for what you carry from earlier phases. Systemic work, for which elements play a part and how they interact. And an integral, experience-based approach from Eastern wisdom, so that you do not only think about work but also notice what work does to you.
That makes this form suitable for people who see their career question not as a technical problem but as an expression of something deeper.
I work with (young) professionals who feel their work no longer speaks for itself and who want to find out what really sits beneath that experience. My approach combines Western psychology, systemic work and an integral, experience-based way of looking. No fixed step-by-step plan, no quick fix. But room to see more deeply what is actually going on and to move from there with more clarity. I work on location in The Hague. Sessions live indoor or outdoor, online or in combination.
Each package starts with a no-obligation introduction. We discuss your situation and look together at which package suits you. The sessions after that last 1.5 to 2 hours, so we can stand still with you with all the room and attention, without rush or pressure.
A compass for those who want to take a first step. In three sessions we look at what is going on, you recognise your patterns, beliefs and stories and you get fresh insights to take into your work straight away.
For those who want to go to the core. In six sessions we create room for essential change. You explore who you are beyond your patterns, beliefs and stories, and learn to live and work from there.
For specific questions such as (impending) burnout, grief, major life changes or reintegration. A package fully tuned to what you need.
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After a completed package you can always come back for a single session of 1.5 to 2 hours. For a check-in, deepening, or when something new shows up on your path.
Many employers reimburse coaching through the training budget, so it is worth asking. Are the costs a barrier for you? Let me know. There is sometimes room.
In a no-obligation introduction we explore together what is going on and whether there is a click. No commitments, just an honest conversation.
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