About Career Wavelength
Career Wavelength challenges the assumption that you need to build your life around work. Instead, we help you build work around your life—because your career shouldn't cost you your wellbeing.
A Different Approach
Most career services assume everyone can work the same way—hustle constantly, network after hours, maintain rigid schedules, and just "push through" challenges.
Here's what traditional advice ignores: Organizations optimize for productivity and profit. Your wellbeing? That's on you to protect. Drawing on organizational psychology, we help you understand how workplace systems function and navigate strategically when your needs and your employer's goals don't align.
We recognize that energy patterns, schedule needs, and personal circumstances aren't obstacles to overcome—they're essential information for finding work that sustains rather than depletes.
This approach combines evidence-based career development theory with organizational psychology frameworks and mental health awareness, creating strategies that work in the real world—not just on paper.
Our Philosophy
Organizations are designed to maximize productivity per dollar. They optimize for their goals, which may have nothing to do with your fulfillment or wellbeing. That's not cynicism—it's organizational literacy. While therapists address mental health treatment and career coaches focus on professional strategy, Career Wavelength integrates both. We offer evidence-based career development strategies informed by organizational psychology and adapted for mental health realities. Whether working one-on-one with someone navigating burnout or consulting with an organization on inclusive policies, the goal is the same: help people build careers that are both professionally fulfilling and personally sustainable.
Filling The Gap
Therapists provide mental health treatment—but they're not career experts.
Career coaches offer professional strategy—but often miss mental health realities.
Career Wavelength fills that gap—career development expertise informed by organizational psychology and mental health awareness.
Meet Caroline
Caroline spent 7+ years in higher education career services, managing relationships with 500+ employers while advising students and professionals. She observed how organizational priorities played out in hiring practices.
Her own career included significant achievements, but also cycles of intense productivity followed by burnout. After finishing her Ed.D. in Organizational Change and Leadership in 2022, this pattern intensified, eventually leading to several mental health diagnoses.
That experience changed everything.
As Caroline navigated her own mental health journey, she found herself constantly using career advising skills—in support groups.
Through facilitating with the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) City of Angels, she heard the same challenges repeatedly: irregular schedules creating instability, unsustainable work, difficult transitions, and burnout.
She realized traditional career development theory didn't account for these realities. They assume consistent energy, stable moods, ability to network after hours. For people managing mental health conditions, those assumptions can make career development feel impossible.
But her doctoral training in organizational change gave her a unique lens: she understood why traditional advice failed—because it focused on individual adaptation rather than examining the systems creating unsustainable conditions.
Career Wavelength was born from this fusion: career development expertise + understanding of organizational systems + mental health awareness + lived experience.
Caroline's Background & Credentials
EDUCATION
- Ed.D., Organizational Change and Leadership, USC Rossier School of Education
- Dissertation: "Internal Affairs: Understanding Challenges Low-Income College Students Face in Unpaid Entertainment Industry Internships"
- M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University
- B.S., Film and Video Production, Drexel University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - 7+ years in career services at USC Cinematic Arts and USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Managed relationships with 500+ employers across industries
- 20+ years of public speaking and facilitation experience
MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP & ADVOCACY
- Winner, 2025 DBSA Outstanding Peer Leader Award
- Board Member, DBSA California (since 2025)
- Education Committee Member, DBSA California (since 2024)
- Facilitator, DBSA City of Angels (since 2023)
- Creator, "Career Navigation for People with Mood Disorders" series
CERTIFICATIONS - Certified Mental Health First Aider - National Council on Mental Wellbeing
- Positive Intelligence Coach Training
- Senior Professional Resilience Coach Certification - International Association of Career Coaches (in progress)
What Guides Us
Authenticity Over Hustle Culture
Sustainable careers aren't built on constant availability and networking burnout. We help you find strategies that honor your whole self.
Mental Health-Informed
Your energy patterns and personal circumstances aren't weaknesses—they're valuable information for finding work that fits your life.
Evidence-Based Practice
We combine academic research in organizational psychology, career development theory, and mental health advocacy best practices.
Accessibility & Equity
Not everyone has the same resources, schedules, or abilities. Our strategies account for your real life, not an idealized version.
Practical & Actionable
No vague advice or corporate platitudes. You'll leave with concrete strategies and tools you can use immediately.
Your Career, Your Way
There's no one "right" way to build a career. We help you define what success looks like for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is Career Wavelength different from traditional career coaching?
Career Wavelength integrates:
- Mental health awareness - energy management, accommodations, disclosure, sustainable structures
- Organizational psychology - how workplace systems function and how to navigate misalignment
- Evidence-based frameworks - career development theory + doctoral expertise in organizational change
The result: career guidance that's both strategic and sustainable.
What services are offered for individuals?
Career Wavelength offers individual career coaching. Check out our page about Coaching for more informatio. We will also offer our signature Navigating The Waves 6-part series, and various workshops (more information to come!)
What services are offered for organizations?
We offer organizational consulting, workshop facilitation, and speaking engagements on topics including career development, workplace culture, organizational change, mental health in the workplace, and accessibility. We work with organizations of all kinds to create more inclusive and effective approaches to talent development and workplace practices. Please contact us directly to discuss your specific needs.
Where are you located?
While Caroline is based in Los Angeles, all of Career Wavelength's services are offered 100% virtual.
Do you offer therapy?
No. Career Wavelength is specifically focused on the intersection of careers and mental health. While we bring a mental health-informed perspective, our focus is specifically on the workplace. As such, our services are related to career and workplace advisement. Should you or someone you know be looking for therapeutic mental health services, we are happy to provide a list of resources.
Do you offer free consultations?
Yes, we offer 15-minute consultation calls to learn more about your individual needs and to answer any questions you may have about Career Wavelength. Book through our website.
Design Work Around Your Life
Whether you're navigating transitions, managing accommodations, experiencing burnout, or looking for guidance that honors your whole self—we meet you where you are.