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Live Webinar

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:
Full Day
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Product Code:
LWC150692
Brochure Code:
PWZ95555
Media Type:
Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar

Dates

Normal Price:      $324.99 - Now:  $64.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

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.

Register today!

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Each purchase includes CE credit for one individual (participants in full attendance will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others.

Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

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 profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.


Canada Credit - Social Workers - National ASWB ACE

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2026 - January 27, 2029. Social workers completing this course receive 6.25 Clinical continuing education credits.

Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous distance.  Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities offered by providers approved by the ASWB ACE program for ongoing professional development.


Canada Credit - Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 380 continuing education minutes as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 


US National Boards - Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

This course offers 6.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 


US National Boards - Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists – ANCC

PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses in full attendance will earn 6.25 contact hours. Partial contact hours will be awarded for partial attendance.



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 royalties as a published author. Charles Jacob 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.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


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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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