Career Counselling & Guidance

As an Industrial Psychologist, Sonica Mouton provides career counselling solutions that are bespoke, innovative and up to date. We have a strong focus on the future of work and important trends emerging.

If you answer YES to any of the questions below, you are at the right place.

Do you want to find your dream job?
Do you need career advice that is specific to your unique situation?
Are you planning a career change and need help to plan your next move?

Do you feel confused about possible courses to study?

An especially important part of career guidance is exploration. By reading on you are already taking the first step in your journey of getting unstuck, more confident and surer of what your needs are in terms of your career path.

Thinking of the bigger picture in terms of your career can be a daunting task.

But it does not have to be.

MindReframe offers professional independent advice combined with scientifically valid and reliable solutions you can trust.

Our options

1. Career Counselling and Guidance
2. Career Change and Career Transition
3. Career Assessments (Adults, Students and Grade 10-12)
3. Career and Skills Development
4. Career Assessment
5. Subject choices, Career Coaching and Skills Development

1. Career Counselling and Guidance

Career counselling can be given on any career related topic in any life stage. Choosing the right career is often a critical aspect in a person’s adult life and it gets even more complicated in a dynamic and fast changing, unpredictable world.

Benefits of Career Counselling

Help with work-related stress
Determine strengths and development areas.
Career path planning that is aligned to individual needs.
Formulating attainable goals and action plans.
Exploring personal problems that may impact on work.
Steps to create work-life balance and living optimally.
Upskilling and soft skill development.

Most people spend a third of their lives at work and research has shown that only about half of people are satisfied with their jobs. Not having a fulfilling job leads to stress, burnout, depression, and various mental and health conditions. What this suggests is that having the right fit in terms of job-versus-person, may lead to improved wellbeing and satisfaction in life.

In short, as psychologists, MindReframe is passionate about giving guidance with regards to possible career options, career change, and career management. We help by assessing the skills, values and needs of the client to help them find a career that works for them.

We use a holistic approach and considers all aspects of a person’s life to help them make an informed decision with regards to a career. A combination of tools are used to assess personality, interest, skills and abilities. This includes qualitative counselling techniques as well as psychometric assessments.

Our motto is that every client is unique and career guidance and counselling is tailored to this belief, giving clients a bespoke service.

2. Career Change and Career Transitioning
Feeling stuck? Are you unhappy in your current role? Need a change? Not sure where to go from here?

We have got your back! We can help you find a new career!
MindReframe offers career counselling sessions to assist you with your career transition journey. Our sessions enable clients to move forward with purpose, and are based on a scientific analysis providing the client with a greater self-awareness and clear understanding of his/her strengths, values, interests, and personality preferences.

We also offer techniques to help clients deal with anxieties that are associated with change.

Change is inevitable. This is true whether you are actively seeking out a new career or have been forced to because of circumstances, like job loss.
Moreover,

Mind Reframe can help you adjust, we give support and practical guidance to handle change, and be more confident and resilient.
Our career transition and management services are designed to suit the unique needs of people at all stages of their careers.
As career experts, we specialize in career change at age and from any career and help clients identify potential career options that are aligned to their personal preferences, qualities, and values.

Choose your future, call us to discuss possible options for you.

3. Career Assessments (Adults, Students and Grade 10-12)

After the initial counselling session, the expert psychologist chooses a combination of career assessment tools that caters for every client’s unique needs and that will assist them to identify their interests, skills and/or work values in order to create self-awareness and identify their next educational or vocational choice in terms of their career.

Career assessments tools are designed to help individuals understand how a variety of personal attributes (abilities, values, interests and personality) can impact on their potential success and satisfaction with different career options and work environments.

Adults

The choice of tests depends on each individual’s unique needs.

Our tests are in-depth psychometric questionnaires specifically designed to develop a comprehensive personal profile.
At MindReframe our highly specialized career/industrial psychologists analyse the results and integrate it into a holistic profile.
We research viable career options that suit the client.
We then give one-on-one consultations and together we help you consider your career choices, review your progress, assess your current position and then devise a realistic plan for your new career/future.
This will help you reflect on your current situation and enable you to make informed decisions with regards to your next steps.
As part of our process we give each individual an in-depth report, tailored to them with a breakdown of their results.

By following this process, we aim to take out the stress of choosing the right career.

If you are at a crossroad in life and struggling to decide what career will suit you the best, call us today.

Students (Grade 10 -12 and young students)

Subject choices

We offer an in-depth personalised assessment of personality, values, interests, aptitude strengths and development areas to assist with selection of appropriate subjects.

It is important to ensure:

Tertiary entry requirements are met.
Entry into chosen field of study.
The learner chooses subjects match his/her ability and interests.

Career Guidance

When it comes to young students, we follow the same approach as with adults, however it is specifically tailored to the needs of the learners.

During career guidance learners who need help choosing a career path and/or appropriate tertiary studies are giving career advice and guidance.

This involves one -one psychological career guidance session together with assessments on assessment of personality, values, interests, aptitude strengths and development areas to assist with selection of appropriate tertiary studies and career path.

4. Career Coaching and Skills development

Do you want to improve your position at a job?
Are you struggling with an issue at work or need to develop specific skill (hard/soft skill) to perform your best and enjoy your work?
Do not want to get stuck or left behind?

I can say if you answered yes to any one of these questions then read on, but the truth is most of these issues are true for most people. This is the reason it has become so incredibly important to keep your skills up to date.

The truth is CHANGE is VERY, VERY REAL it affects us all and the sooner we acknowledge and embrace it, the better off we will be.

It makes absolute sense to try and keep up with the latest and expected future trends in terms of careers and skills needed.
Keeping your options open has become the most important quality a person needs to thrive in this changing world.

However, while the internet has given us a whole new world of possibilities, it has also become extremely difficult to know what to do and where to start. It seems like a everywhere we turn and any topic we research has a vast amount of resources and information to choose from, resulting more often than not in information overload, leaving us overwhelmed and unsure of what information to use and what not.

That is why getting the advice from a Career and Industrial Psychologist has become more valuable than ever.

We all know about the hype that’s happening with regards to life coaching, but what about having a Career Coach? An expert, who can help you navigate the waters of the unknown.

Someone who can help you discover the real you and your needs, values, interests and abilities.
Someone who can point you into the right direction and help you work on your identified development areas whilst zooming in on your strengths.
Someone who knows what is required in the world of work.

It is predicted that 70% of jobs will not exist in the future and job descriptions change rapidly with new types of jobs being created that we have never even heard of. In addition, the pandemic has resulted in drastic and accelerated change in the job market. It has forced employers and employees alike to think creatively with regards to work, making remote working the new norm with a focus on flexibility.

There also seems to be a shift to the importance of softer skills.

• Critical problem-solving skills •emotional intelligence •compassion •empathy
• innovation •adaptability •creativity.

These attributes are already some of the most sought-after skills employers seek in the job market.

So why not invest in yourself?

Call us and let us start your journey together.