Executive and Leadership Counseling

Perspective A: Do you deserve a promotion? Are you worth more than your salary? Did your bonus or benefits package disappoint you? Is your current company holding you back?

Perspective B: Are emotional behaviors or addictions getting in your way? Are you a high functioning mess? Are you ready to see your full potential without the unnecessary weight on your shoulders?

Perspective C: Do your social skills need a clean-up? Are you disliked and unable to admit you are a boss more than a respected leader? Do you believe people-skills are annoying or unnecessary?

Perspective D: Did you get the position and feel lost? Do you experience imposter syndrome? Are you worried they will figure you out? Are you craving knowledge, security, and confidence?

Perspective E: Sometimes, we’re already highly successful and doing well. Yet, we want to push ourselves to the next level. I’m here to assess your life and career situation and provide honest feedback. Is it time to enjoy life and what you’ve accomplished? Or, is something fresh and exciting around the corner?

What is holding you back, and why?

Treatment Plan Commitment

• Initial personal life assessment
• Career assessment
• Negative cognition assessment
• Sabotaging habit assessment (including addictions)
• EMDR as needed (inoculate traumas)
• Quit as needed (get sober)
• Goal identification and a values conversation
• Acquire skills
  • Decrease your tolerance for pain
  • Self-observation, self-awareness, recognizing patterns, choosing to change
  • Emotional intelligence, feelings expression and release, self-understanding
  • Somatic state changing for mental clarity and focus
  • Reality based thinking and positive mental attitude, perspective
  • Identify repetition compulsions and flash forward to new future templates
  • Behavior choices, changes, follow-through, and sustainability
  • Learning from the process, adjusting, and refining
  • Know how to like and love yourself – points of joy
  • Commanding, supervising, delegating, and participating
  • Communication from a place of alignment
  • Undeniable effectiveness and competence
• Identity Establishment
  • You are what you do, not who you think you are.
• Being: I am Powerful.

(c) Copyright Sarah A. Gura 2024

Sarah has provided advocacy, psychology education, and counseling for 21 years on a full-time basis with a variety of patients in several settings –from prisons to universities, private practice, and public servant forums. From college student to CEO and from probie to Chief, she has helped people stop their own chaos and reach their potential. She takes a therapeutic approach, interweaving clinical counseling and a candid coach-like stance against your most overwhelming concerns. Text “ELC” to 815-557-1267 and she will set up a free 15-minute consultation with you.