Career Reconnection Intensive:
A psychology-informed intervention for professionals navigating periods of deep disconnection from their professional selves. Designed to restore agency, rebuild self-trust, and renew a sense of possibility.
RECLAIM…
your sense of self at work.
Many of us were told that resilience and hard work could solve anything. So we applied ourselves fully.
But there is a cost: we learned to abandon our own needs, interests, and desires in order to stay productive and appear capable. We didn't just burn out. We lost track of ourselves. Burnout isn't the accumulated impact of working too hard. It's the accumulated impact of years of overriding your own signals, not listening to yourself, in order to meet external demands. That's self-abandonment. And it takes an enormous toll.
By the time you land here, you're not just tired. You're estranged from yourself. Individuals in this place often report:
Persistent career dread
Loss of confidence despite strong performance
Feeling trapped or unable to imagine a path forward
Finding workplace dynamics emotionally draining or difficult to navigate
The quiet experience of feeling disconnected from the version of yourself who once felt confident and energized by work
For high-achievers especially, professional identity is deeply fused with self-worth. So disruption to the career is experienced as a threat to the self.
That's why clarity can't come from a better résumé or a five-year plan. It comes from reconnecting with your own interior signals.
Through a psychology-informed five-session container, I help professionals step out of confusion, understand the deeper patterns shaping their experience, and reconnect with the clarity and self-trust needed to move forward again with renewed agency and a sense of possibility.
Your career struggles aren’t about personal failure; they are about misalignment.
Career challenges are rarely just strategic. They are psychological and relational.
We learn early how to treat ourselves based on how we were treated. If you learned that your needs were inconvenient or that love was conditional on performance, you became skilled at reading others' needs and ignoring your own. In the workplace, this looks like strength. But there is a cost.
When your work environment repeatedly activates these patterns in destabilizing ways, the experience becomes disorienting. You stop trusting your instincts. Feedback becomes confusing. Self-doubt grows louder.
The turning point: understanding these patterns.
A Psychological Approach Unlocks Clarity.
When you can see the psychological dynamics at play, your experience begins to make sense. What once felt like personal inadequacy often reveals itself as a predictable interaction between your relational wiring and the environment you are operating within, and important shifts begin to occur:
You understand the relational and attachment dynamics shaping your experience at work
You can separate your professional environment from your identity and self-worth
Your emotions and reactions begin to make sense rather than feeling like personal flaws
Self-trust stabilizes
You reconnect with the part of yourself capable of advocating for your needs
Clarity replaces confusion
Instead of feeling stuck, you begin to be energized by new options
From this foundation, thoughtful planning and career decision-making become possible again, not from panic or exhaustion, but from alignment and agency.
Career Reconnection Intensive with Elizabeth McCarthy
Five 60-Minute Sessions
This container provides the psychological space to slow down, understand what has been happening beneath the surface, and reconnect with yourself.
Across five sessions, Elizabeth brings together relational and attachment psychology, decades of experience working with ambitious professionals, and her own lived experience navigating profound career confusion and rebuilding self-trust.
Together you will:
Understand the relational and attachment patterns influencing your experience at work
Identify how certain environments activate or destabilize these patterns
Identify current themes in your career experience that are familiar and mirror psychological patterns
Separate your identity and worth from your current professional circumstances
Validate your emotional experience and reactions as psychologically coherent rather than personal failures
Reconnect with the internal clarity that has been buried beneath confusion and self-doubt
Begin rebuilding confidence, self-trust, and professional agency
Explore thoughtful next steps for moving forward from a place of empowerment rather than survival
Personalized Voice Note Integration
Throughout the container, Elizabeth provides customized voice recordings designed to support integration between sessions.
These recordings often include:
Reflections on patterns uncovered during your work together
Reminders of key psychological insights
Strategies for navigating your professional environment more effectively
Clarifying frameworks for decision-making moving forward
Clients keep these recordings permanently and often return to them as grounding reminders of the clarity uncovered during the process.
Investment: $1675
If you're ready to schedule your Career Reconnection Intensive, email elizabeth@elizabethmcc.com to get started.
Not sure where to begin? A Clarity Session is a natural first step, a focused 60-minute conversation to start uncovering how your unique psychology is shaping your experience at work.
By the end of the Career Reconnection Intensive, clients often experience a profound shift.
Confusion begins to lift, and what once felt chaotic and deeply personal begins to make sense in a way that restores perspective and self-trust.
Most importantly, you reconnect with the part of yourself that feels capable and trusts your instincts. From that place, confidence and agency return, and you leave feeling grounded again in who you are, what you need, and what you are capable of creating.
“What really sets Elizabeth apart is her ability to zoom in and zoom out with such practical wisdom. She helped me understand that living a life full of expectations to 'leave it all on the field' at every turn is not only unrealistic but unfair to myself. Her gift for inviting self-compassion and reflection has been critical to unlocking my personal growth in ways that translate directly to how I navigate my daily challenges.”
— Integrated Strategy Leader at a Global Creative & Media Group
“Simply put – the impact of our work together is tangible. Together, we’ve built a framework I carry into every aspect of my life. I feel more aligned and self-assured, even in moments that used to derail me.”
— Growth Strategy & Operations Leader in Climate Tech
"Elizabeth McCarthy is an absolute rockstar and has changed my life!E I have been going to her for over 10 years now and have referred multiple people based on all the help and value she has provided me! I’ve always been very driven by my career and success at work being very Type A and goal driven. This has helped me drive continued success from a work standpoint, but where I started to develop unhealthy habits was making this my identity. Elizabeth has helped coach me over the years to help me realize what I really want to do in life from a career standpoint, while identifying what true happiness looks like and means for me.”
— Global Sales Leader at a Research & Advisory Firm
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"When we understand the psychology beneath our professional experiences, what once felt like personal failure often reveals itself as a deeply human pattern. This understanding of our unique wiring can restore clarity, rebuild self-trust, and course correct a career in powerful ways."
— Elizabeth McCarthy, Psychology-Informed Career and Identity Consultant