Career Therapy

Welcome back to the "Career Therapy" podcast, where we explore the intersection of work and well-being. I’m your host, Coach Marty, and each episode I interview mental health experts, coaches, and industry insiders to bring you practical insights and tips that will help you build a meaningful, rewarding, and sustainable career. So join me as we explore the path to career satisfaction, one conversation at a time. In today’s episode we sit down with Robyn McKenzie a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Marin County California, where she works with children, teens, adults, couples, and families. Together, we explore the role that personality plays in your career and how you can use free assessments like the Enneagram to better understand yourself, your motivations and the strengths you bring to your career.  If you’re enjoying the Career Therapy Podcast, please leave us a review on Spotify, or iTunes and share this episode with someone you know who is struggling in their job search, so we can help more people navigate their way to a better career.  Thanks for tuning in. Here is our conversation with Robyn McKenzie. LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynmckenziemft/ Website URL: https://www.robynmckenziemft.com/

Dan Jarvis is the founder of the non-profit 22ZERO, co-founder and Chief Healer at Anxiety Guys, and the host of the podcast with the same name, where he uses Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques to help veterans and civilians heal from anxiety, depression and PTSD. Together we discuss how trauma is stored in the body, what you can do to better understand your emotions, and how Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques can help you in your healing journey.

Lara Effland is a Mental Health Leader dedicated to creating safe and impactful spaces for clinicians and clients. She is the Director of Adult Programs at Equip, the founder of the Clinician Development Collective, and the host of the Clinician to Clinician Podcast. Together we discuss how to get comfortable being perfectly imperfect in our careers, how to calm down and find moments of flow at work, and how to leverage your strengths to increase your levels of confidence, resilience, and tolerance.

Natasha D’Arcangelo is a seasoned professional and speaker in the field of Mental Health Counseling. She is also a Compassion Fatigue expert and serves as a Qualified Supervisor providing outpatient counseling for Headspace Health. Together we discuss compassion fatigue in the caregiving professions, such as nursing, therapy, education, and more. Throughout the discussion, we dig into the impacts of trauma, the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and ways in which you can train your nervous system to be more tolerant of perceived threats in life and the workplace.

Zach White is the founder of Oasis of Courage, host of The Happy Engineer Podcast, and a lifestyle engineer helping leaders reach the next level without burning out. Together we discuss radical acceptance, learning how to truly know yourself, and how to bounce back when you’ve hit rock bottom in your relationships, work, and life.

Brittani Procknow is a relational therapist who strives to help individuals and couples live life passionately. Her work encourages others to move beyond complacency both personally and professionally through enhancing self and relational awareness. Together, we discuss workaholism, how it develops, what it looks like, and what you can do to break the cycle and begin living a more connected, fulfilling, and engaging life.

Shelly Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Co-founder of Good Human Work, where her mission is to combine human connection + therapy strategies to improve peoples' personal and professional lives. Together, we discuss the long-term impact of remote work on our mental health and what you can do to build and maintain relationships without going into the office. We contemplate the future of Artificial Intelligence and how it will impact human connection when it comes to the job search, therapy, and our social environment. And finally, we dig into how societal values have shifted from the community to the individual and how living in an isolation bubble can lead to disastrous outcomes, and what you can do about it.

Lydia Lincklean is a certified coach who focuses on Stress Prevention, Mental Health, Mindfulness, and Burnout. Merging a background working with Investigation Criminal Courts with her extensive experience in coaching, she has developed systems for people to listen to themselves, find peace of mind, and foster serenity in their lives. In this episode, we talk about our difficult personal experiences with medicating stress and anxiety, we talk about how to look at the big picture in order to escape the trap of stress-jumping, and we provide tips for how to stop fighting who you are in order to move into a state of flow in your work and life. 

Dr. Orlando Wright is a behavioral scientist who enjoys innovation within the behavioral health space.  He is the principal of Halcyon Clinical: an institute for clinical research, treatment, and training, and works as the Director of Partnerships and Innovation at the American Society of Addiction Medicine. In this episode we talk about the art of sustainable self-care (emphasis on sustainable), why you should throw your vision board in the garbage and what to do instead, and how acceptance, creativity and self-talk can lead to radical life changes that you can’t even predict will happen.

Dr. Jax Black and Tomer Yogev are the co-creators of The Big Joy Theory, the leading coaching model and center for joy-centered leadership development. By leveraging joy as a productive source of empowerment, leaders can experience a lifetime of productive impact on their families, organizations, and communities. Together, we discuss how to find joy in your personal and professional life, how to escape the corporate “deficit” focused approach to “fixing” ourselves in order to lead with self-efficacy, and why fake it till you make it might lead to you hating yourself and your life in the long run, and what to do to change that. 

Bob Goodwin is the president and founder of Career Club and host of the Career Club podcast, where he helps people find roles that match their strengths within companies that enable them to thrive. Our discussion centers around how to utilize marketing and sales skills in your job search, what you need to do to remove ego and overcome fears of rejection, and why being the most helpful candidate is better than being the most impressive candidate when making your next career transition.

Nicole Legg, a PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology, spends her time conducting psychological research, providing therapy and assessments to her clients, and delivering talks on mental health and wellbeing. She is also the co-founder of WellIntel Talks, a wellness education speaker platform, and aims to promote wellness intelligence in the community. In this episode we talk about how to navigate workplace conflicts in healthy and effective ways, what you can do to build self-trust in yourself and your abilities, and how Dialectic Behavior Therapy DBT’s DEARMAN framework can lead to better communications and outcomes at work. 

Dr. Sharon Lo Adusei is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in the developing brain, specifically focused on understanding the role that our context, culture and social environment has on how our attention and self-regulation skills form throughout life. Over the last decade, she has worked to promote well-being and positive health outcomes in clinical, academic, and tech spaces, including the growing digital mental health industry. In this episode we talk about childhood temperament and how it shows up in our work later in life, emotional reactivity and regulation and how to improve your sensitivity to negative stimuli, and what you can do to build a self-care plan for yourself when times get tough in your career. 

Dr. Benjamin Ritter is the founder of Live for Yourself Consulting, a leadership and career coach, Talent Development Executive, values geek, international speaker, online course instructor, and podcast host of The Executive, and The Live for Yourself Revolution. In this episode we talk about the culture of fear that is growing in the tech world due to mass layoffs and career uncertainty, how to reframe your personal and professional story, and why acceptance is necessary as we develop in our career year after year. 

Dr. Jessica Jackson is a passionate practitioner, scholar, and advocate in the field of counseling psychology. She divides her time between clinical practice, public speaking, advocacy, writing, and research to deliver culturally centered, evidence-based treatments to adult clients with a wide range of emotional, behavioral and adjustment problems — including anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship problems. In this episode, we discuss how to to manage our expectations and emotional reactions at work and in the job search, the importance of boundaries and how to implement them properly in the workplace, and how you can practice more self compassion in order to better handle the ambiguity of work, life, and identity in the workplace.

Dr. Brooke Wachtler is a licensed psychologist and the founder of BEW Consulting & Training and the newsletter Beyond the Buzzword. She is passionate about helping people change their thought processes, actions, and behaviors to help improve well-being at work. In this episode, we discuss how to deal with your difficult boss or coworker, ways to reframe your mindsets to reduce stress, and how to realistically integrate your work and personal lives in a way that leads to long term career success.

Dr. Julia Baron is a licensed psychologist based in San Francisco, with experience in both clinical work and consulting. She specializes in women’s health and wellness, substance use treatment, and pediatric and adolescent neuropsychological assessment. She currently works on the clinical team at Caraway - a digital healthcare company providing integrated mental, physical, and reproductive health for college women, and her private practice includes consulting and coaching for both individuals and teams, psychotherapy, and assessment. In this episode, we discuss how to cope with Sunday Scares, align your values, skills, and interests, and take a more holistic approach to your life and your career. 

Nicole Roger, MFT is the Director of Clinical Partnerships at Spring Health, a digital mental healthcare solution that provides employer sponsored therapy, coaching, medication management, and on-demand Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools for employees and their dependents. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in grief and loss, substance use disorders, and career burnout. She has deep experience working with clients in high stress professions. In this episode, we discuss how to handle grief and loss after a layoff, what to do when your professional identity is disrupted, and what you can do to take back your narrative and curate your own career story.

Jenna Kimball is the Director of Talent Acquisition at Dentsu International, helping nationwide clients and brands identify talent from entry level positions through C-Level roles in the marketing and media space. In this episode, we discuss the Recruiter’s perspective on the job search when it comes to finding the right role for you, networking with the right people, showing up with the right presence in the interview, and negotiating the right pay. Jenna shares stories of imperfect candidates who still got the job and drops some wisdom on how to reframe your approach so that companies can’t wait to hire you. 

Dr. Erica Simon is a licensed clinical psychologist, organizational and leadership consultant, and founder of Series Be, a consultancy service that is taking a preventative approach to burnout in the workplace. In this episode, we discover the differences between an individual and systems approach to burnout, explore why burnout prevention is beneficial to a business’ bottom line, and give you 4 tips on how to avoid burnout while setting resolutions for the new year, as well as so much more.