Counseling Specialties:
· Career-focused individuals who aspire to a high level of professional success
· Professionals in creative fields, and people whose work requires creativity and imagination
· Professionals who identify with unconventional, non-conformist points of view
· Individuals with a need to gain a sense of identity, meaning and fulfillment from work
Counselor Profile:
Ken Lawson is a New York career counselor with more than 15 years of counseling experience in business and private practice. His knowledge and understanding of the world of work stem from extensive professional training, counseling work with clients at all professional levels, and firsthand career experience: he has held responsible positions in media, human resources consulting, education and hospitality, and navigated several successful career changes of his own.
Ken’s counseling practice addresses a variety of work-related issues including career change, job search and career advancement. His approach to the counseling process focuses on shaping viable career goals and implementing practical strategies to achieve them. Frequently, he uses a combination of assessment tools to develop actionable inventories of occupational interests, marketable skills, key work-life values and career-relevant personality traits.
Areas of focus in the counseling work often include:
- Clarifying career interests and passions
- Exploring and developing career options and alternative pathways
- Designing and conducting an effective self-marketing campaign
- Communicating clearly and persuasively in writing and conversation
- Building professional reputation and succeeding in a new job
Clients enter Ken's counseling practice from a broad range of backgrounds and levels of professional achievement. What they have in common is a desire to advance, succeed and realize their career potential.
Education and professional training
- M.A., Ed.M. Psychological Counseling, Teachers College, Columbia University
- M.A. Public Communication, Fordham University
- Training and Research Institute for Self-Psychology (TRISP), foundational training
- Albert Ellis Institute, primary training
- Type Resources – MBTI Qualifying Program
- F.E.G.S. Certificate Program in Comprehensive Career Assessment
Relevant background information
- Founding Member, Career Counselors Consortium
- Former Career Counselor and Instructor, Center for Career, Education, and Life Planning, New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies
- Consulting Editor, Barron’s "Business Buddies” series of books for managers (Barron’s/Axis Publishing)
- Author, The KISS Guide to Managing Your Career (DK Publishing)
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