Navigating the Perfect Storm of Career and Burnout with Dr. Janna Koretz

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Website: https://azimuthpsych.com

Dr. Koretz is the founder of Azimuth, a therapy practice specializing in the mental health challenges of individuals in high-pressure careers. She has spent over a decade helping her clients face and overcome their mental health issues by developing a unique understanding of industry-specific nuances in fields like law, consulting, finance, and technology.

Dr. Koretz has been featured in many publications, including Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal, focusing on the importance of recognizing career/identity enmeshment. She also writes and speaks on the challenges of discovering and living your personal values.

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Some workaholics lose their sense of self. That’s when you need to come to terms with the fact that “who you are” is not your career identity, according to Dr. Janna Koretz, a clinical psychologist and expert on leadership and mental health.

“A particular confluence of high achievement, intense competitiveness, and culture of overwork has caught many in a perfect storm of career enmeshment and burnout,” says Dr. Koretz.

She is available for interviews around enmeshment between your career and personal identity and can discuss topics including:

• How to determine your personal values
• How to rebuild a well-rounded sense of self that revolves around your personal values
• How to establish a more manageable work life in order to explore who you are without work, even when you’re stuck in your high-pressure career
• Value misalignment: Strategies to identify your fundamental values and to solve any misalignment between these deeply-held values and your day-to-day work and lifestyle
• Navigating loss of a sense of self when you retire or lose your job
• How to free up time and live beyond your job title
• How to rebuild your personal social network

Dr. Koretz is the founder of Azimuth, a therapy practice specializing in the mental health challenges of individuals in high-pressure careers. Dr. Koretz has spent over a decade helping her clients face and overcome their mental health issues by developing a unique understanding of industry-specific nuances in fields like law, consulting, finance, and technology.

Discussion questions:

● REALISTIC STRESS MANAGEMENT: Using psychological science to deal with job stress, while also taking into account the hard realities of your industry and career path ● VALUE MISALIGNMENT: Strategies to identify your fundamental values and to solve any misalignment between these deeply-held values and your day-to-day work and lifestyle ● CAREER/IDENTITY ENMESHMENT: How to identify and deal with “career/identity enmeshment” — the merging of career and personal identity (going beyond the "workaholic" stereotype), leading to a loss of a sense of self when you retire or lose your job ● AVOIDING AND MANAGING BURNOUT: Tools to identify and ward off both personal and career burnout, and how to recover from burnout if it has happened ● WORK-RELATED SUBSTANCE ABUSE: Identifying and navigating after-work alcohol and drug abuse culture in high-pressure careers ● PROMOTION STRESS: Ways to manage and overcome promotion-related anxiety or self-doubt ● INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT: Coping with highly demanding (and even emotionally abusive) clients and managers ● GOLDEN HANDCUFFS: Adapting to an expensive lifestyle, with high rewards for “sticking it out” making it impossible to simply say no

Social Media:

Dr. Koretz's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkoretz/

Azimuth Psychology Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/azimuthpsych/