Private Career Advisory
You're successful by every measure.But underneath it, you're struggling—and ready to do something about it.
Maybe you're exhausted. Unhappy with work. Questioning the career you worked so hard to build. Facing an important decision. Or simply wondering what comes next.
Private Career Advisory that goes beyond conventional career coaching to help you understand what's really going on, get clear about what you want, and determine what to do next.
Dr. Angélica Pérez-Litwin
Psychologist & Career Advisor
Executives, physicians, attorneys, founders, and other accomplished professionals turn to Dr. Angélica Pérez-Litwin when they’re experiencing career distress, navigating a pivotal career moment, or ready to figure out what’s next.
My approach
I work with high-achieving professionals who are struggling with their careers.
The kind of struggle that goes beyond simply wanting a new job. My clients are physicians, attorneys, executives, entrepreneurs, academics, engineers, therapists, and other accomplished professionals who have built successful careers but find themselves exhausted, dissatisfied, stuck, disconnected from their work, or questioning everything they've worked for.
What's really going on?
They've earned the titles. Built the reputation. Made the money. Done everything they were supposed to do. And still, they may be wondering:
- Why am I so unhappy when I've accomplished so much?
- Is this burnout—or something else?
- Is the problem my job, my workplace, my career, or me?
- Have I outgrown the career I worked so hard to build?
- Do I need to leave—or is there a way to make this work?
- And if I do leave, what comes next?
Sometimes the problem is clear. Often, it isn't.
That's where Private Career Advisory begins.
I help accomplished professionals understand what is happening in their careers, make sense of the factors contributing to it, and determine what to do next.
If that resonates, you're in the right place.
The service
What is Private Career Advisory?
Private Career Advisory is a highly personalized, strategic approach for accomplished professionals navigating layered career challenges, important decisions, and transitions.
It goes beyond conventional career coaching.
We are not simply starting with your résumé, LinkedIn profile, job search, or a generic exercise about what you want to do next. We are looking at the bigger picture: your career, your work environment, your ambitions, your identity, your values, your relationships, your wellbeing, your stage of life—and the life you actually want to build.
Because career problems rarely exist in isolation. You may think you need to change jobs when the deeper issue is chronic overwork. You may think you're burned out when you've actually become deeply disconnected from a career that no longer fits. Or you may know exactly what you want next, and need an experienced advisor to help you think through the risks, decisions, and strategy required to get there.
My background in psychology allows me to understand the human dynamics underneath career decisions. My experience as a career advisor, researcher, entrepreneur, and business owner allows me to help you translate that understanding into practical decisions and action.
We don't look at your career separately from the person living it. That's what makes this work different.
When greater clarity is needed
What if you don't know what's wrong?
Sometimes you know something about your career isn't working—but you can't identify exactly what the problem is. Am I burned out? Is my workplace the problem? Am I in the wrong job, or the wrong career? Why am I successful but still so unhappy?
When the problem isn't clear, I may recommend beginning with a Career Health Assessment. It takes a comprehensive look at the multiple factors affecting how you are experiencing your career and work, so you have greater clarity about what kind of change is needed.
First, we understand what's happening. Then we determine what to do about it.
Not everyone needs an assessment. If you already know the problem you're trying to solve or the decision you're trying to make, we can begin directly with Private Career Advisory.
Why my approach is different
You need someone who understands both the person and the career.
I am a clinical psychologist by training, career advisor, researcher, entrepreneur, business owner, and author. For more than two decades, I have worked closely with high-achieving professionals and studied the relationship between work, achievement, identity, wellbeing, and career satisfaction.
That background allows me to see not only the decision in front of you, but the patterns underneath it—and the practical realities of making consequential professional decisions.
The answer isn't always to leave the job. It isn't always to stay. It isn't always burnout. And it isn't always a career problem.
What problem are we actually trying to solve?
In the media
My book
The Great Unraveling
The Great Unraveling: The Silent Crisis of High Achievers and the Path to Career Harmony grew out of more than two decades of working with high-achieving professionals and witnessing the same pattern again and again: people who appear extraordinarily successful on the outside while privately struggling underneath the weight of work, ambition, and achievement.
In the book, I introduce Career Distress Response and explore why some high achievers struggle in ways that cannot be explained by burnout alone—and how we can build healthier, more sustainable relationships with work and success.
The ideas in the book are deeply connected to the work I do with my Private Career Advisory clients.
My work in career health
A larger body of work behind the advisory.
My Private Career Advisory work is part of a larger body of work focused on Career Health—how our careers and relationship with work affect our wellbeing, identity, relationships, and ability to build fulfilling lives.
I developed the concept of Career Distress Response, created the Career Distress Index, and founded the Career Health Institute to advance Career Health as a multidisciplinary field.
You built the career.Now build a life that feels as good as it looks—on your own terms.
Ready to figure out what comes next?
You don't need to have your entire career figured out before reaching out. In fact, not knowing what to do next is often the reason people come to me.
You may know that something needs to change. You may have several possible paths and not know which to choose. Or you may simply know:
I can't keep doing this the way I've been doing it.
Private Career Advisory gives you a place to figure that out—with someone who understands the many layers behind high-achieving careers.