Find Work That Works For You
Not just any career—one that fits your whole life. Chart your path forward with career guidance that understands mental health realities and organizational dynamics.
The Career Wavelength Difference
Most career advice assumes everyone operates the same way. But if you're managing a mental health condition, recovering from burnout, or just need work that doesn't demand you leave parts of yourself at the door—traditional advice falls short.
You Might Be Experiencing...
Chronic exhaustion that weekends can't fix. Dissociating after work—needing hours to feel like yourself again. Sunday Scaries that start Saturday afternoon. Emotional numbing during the workday. Identity confusion—feeling like you've become your job title and lost touch with who you are outside work.
If this resonates, you're not broken. You're experiencing misalignment between who you are and what your work demands.
Work That Works For You
At Career Wavelength, we believe mental health and career success aren't separate—they're connected.
Most career coaches help you perform better within existing systems. Therapists help you process the emotional toll. Both are essential—but there's a gap.
What's missing? Someone who understands how organizational systems shape your options, how career paths interact with mental health realities, and how to navigate work strategically when your needs and your employer's priorities don't align.
Career Wavelength fuses career development expertise with organizational psychology and mental health awareness. Whether you're just starting out, experiencing burnout mid-career, or returning to work after time away, you deserve guidance that sees the whole you—and understands the systems you're navigating.
With an award-winning coach who has both doctoral-level expertise and lived experience, we help individuals build sustainable careers while also partnering with organizations to create workplaces where everyone can thrive.
Career Wavelength Is For You If...
You're Experiencing
Burnout or chronic work-related stress
Physical and mental exhaustion that sleep doesn't cure
Difficulty transitioning from "work mode" to "life mode"
Anxiety or depression affecting your career decisions
Questions about workplace accommodations or disclosure
The need for career guidance that accounts for mental health realities
You're Ready To:
Engage in strategic career planning (not in acute crisis)
Work with a coach who understands career development, mental health AND organizational systems
Design work around your life—not force your life around work
Question whether your current path aligns with your actual values (not what you think you "should" want)
Build a sustainable approach to your career
This Includes Professionals Who Are:
Starting their careers and building sustainable foundations
Mid-career and questioning their current path
High-achieving but exhausted by the performance required to maintain it
Returning to work after a break for any number of reasons
Navigating career transitions while managing mental health conditions
Why Career Wavelength?
Career coaches bring professional development expertise—resume optimization, interview prep, networking strategies. They assume the problem is your performance. Therapists provide essential mental health support—emotional processing, coping strategies, clinical care. They focus on your internal experience. What's missing? An understanding how organizational systems shape your options, how career paths interact with mental health realities, and how to navigate when your needs and your employer's goals don't align.
Career Wavelength Brings
Career Development Expertise
Evidence-based career development strategies backed by 7+ years in higher education career services, managing relationships with 500+ employers
Lived Experience & Mental Health Training
Personal understanding of building a career while managing mental health conditions, with experience in peer support, facilitation and mental health-focused training
Doctoral-Level Organizational Insight
Understanding of how institutions function, how power operates in organizational systems, and why individual-level solutions often fail when structural problems exist.
The Result?
Career guidance that's both strategic and sustainable—because your wellbeing matters as much as your professional success.
Our approach centers on:
Energy-first planning: What fuels you vs. what depletes you
Values alignment: What you actually need to feel whole, not what you think you "should" want
Organizational literacy: Understanding how companies operate and how to navigate systems not designed with your wellbeing in mind
The outcome: Work that fits your life—not a life that fits your career.
Workplaces Where Everyone Thrives
Your employees bring their whole selves to work—including their mental health. Our consulting services help you create environments where people can thrive through customized training, culture assessments, and practical strategies for inclusive leadership.
Drawing on organizational change expertise, career development theory, and lived experience, we help you move beyond performative wellness initiatives to structural change that supports your people. Because you can't "wellness-program" your way out of a systems problem.
Our Services
Career Coaching
Career guidance that aligns your professional path with your mental health needs and goals. Together, we find work that energizes rather than depletes you.
Workshops & Courses
Practical, supportive workshops and courses. We use evidence-based tools and insights for sustainable career growth, and you'll leave with resources to help you thrive.
Workplace Consulting
Helping organizations create environments where people thrive through culture assessment, leadership training, and policy development.
Our Founder, Caroline
My Ed.D. in Organizational Change and Leadership gave me frameworks to understand how organizations function, how power operates in systems, and why individual solutions often fail when structural problems exist.
I've spent 7+ years managing 500+ employer relationships in higher education career services, watching organizational priorities play out in hiring practices and workplace culture. I know what companies say they value vs. what their systems actually reward.
And I've built my career while managing mental health conditions, serving on the Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) California Board of Directors, and designing award-winning programming.
Credentials:
- Ed.D in Organizational Change and Leadership from USC Rossier
- 7+ years of experience in higher education career advising
- Board Member, DBSA California
- Winner, 2025 DBSA Outstanding Peer Leader Award at DBSA Peer Support & Education Convening
- Mental Health First Aider - National Council for Mental Wellbeing
- Positive Intelligence Coach Training
- Senior Professional Resilience Coach - International Association of Career Coaches (in progress)
The combination means: I help you understand both the internal work (your values, energy, identity) and the external systems (organizational dynamics, power structures, career pathways) so you can make informed choices.
Navigate Your Career Path
Chart your path forward with support that meets you where you are—whether you're an individual seeking career guidance or an organization building a more inclusive workplace.