I’m Elizabeth, a Psychology-Informed Career & Identity Consultant.
Many successful professionals reach a point where their work no longer feels like it fits, even when everything looks right on paper.
Before this work, I was deep in a career that looked right on paper but left me feeling quietly lost on the inside.
For a while, it derailed me. Then it redirected me.
I became a psychotherapist, and more than a decade working with driven professionals taught me something important:
Career challenges are rarely just strategic. They are psychological and relational.
Understanding those patterns is often where everything begins to shift.
In my work as a psychotherapist, I noticed that many professionals wanted to explore their careers at this level of depth, but in a way that felt more focused, high-impact, and directly connected to meaningful action.
What became clear over time was that this work belonged inside a consulting model, where insight drives action.
That led me here, to work at the intersection of psychological depth and career strategy, helping professionals reignite ambition, confidence, and agency.
Today I work with high-achieving professionals across finance, technology, law, consulting, and media. People who are successful by every external measure but have lost the thread of what makes their work feel meaningful.
Based in Chicago and working with clients nationwide, this work brings psychological depth and strategic clarity into the same conversation, and I love the momentum, impact, and partnership it creates. It is the work I wish had existed when I needed it most.
High-achievers inspire me. They are among the most passionate and ambitious of us, pouring themselves fully into their work. They can also be the most affected by misaligned roles, jobs, companies, and careers. When work doesn't fit, it begins to create symptoms that deteriorate some of their most treasured strengths: confidence, capability, and agency. It can be devastating.
These symptoms are not about personal failure. They are almost always about alignment. Yet this is an experience that often goes overlooked and unspoken.
Relief can come quickly when there is understanding, and from clarity, we can create action and change.
Start with a Clarity Session
"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