Danielle Nicholson

Career Coach for Anxious Girlies

I help you stop overthinking your career, take action, build confidence and self-trust in your abilities, and make real progress on your goals.

Career anxiety sneaks into every moment.

You lie awake at 2am, mind racing and stressing about your career’s future.

You spend your commute wishing you could quit your job, but also feeling stuck.

You doomscroll university websites and fantasize about being a student again.

You brainstorm 20 career paths and feel like you can do anything and nothing.

You try to make a decision about your career, but constantly second-guess it.

You wonder — Am I in the wrong career? Do I need better boundaries?
Is this burnout? Is something wrong with me?

If you’re struggling with significant career anxiety and indecision, you need more than a new resume or mock interview. You need practical ways to manage the uncertainty, reduce the pressure on your next step, and move forward without having everything figured out.

I help anxious girlies (like myself) navigate career transitions with more clarity, self-trust, and action, so they can stop spinning their wheels and start making real progress.

Coaching Services

I help you notice the worries, fears, and anxieties that are impacting your career decisions.

We create a concrete strategy to regulate your nervous system and calm your body and brain, so you can make thoughtful, intentional decisions.

Then, we design brief, actionable career experiments to help you take imperfect action and make real progress on your goals. We reflect on how your experiment goes, what you learned, and what you want to try next.

Nice to meet you! I’m Danielle :)

I know how impossible it can feel to make career decisions in today’s economy, when everything feels uncertain and overwhelming. But you don’t have to figure it all out at once!

I’m here to help you regulate the overwhelm, make intentional decisions through small career experiments, and navigate burnout along the way.

I have a master’s in clinical mental health counseling (but my services are not therapy!), and I’ve got several years of experience in instructional design, higher education, media, marketing, and more — so I talk about career strategy as someone who has actually developed a diverse portfolio career across multiple industries.

Together, we’ll create a career strategy that is customized to your specific goals and supports all areas of your life.

Workshop Facilitator & Newsletter Contributor for The Financial Diet

Workshop Testimonials

“Danielle offers advice in a non-performative way, centering one's career trajectory in terms of goals and wellbeing, and reminding us that work should not devour the rest of our lives and consume us. Her workshop was full of information, in-depth and very interesting, and I also really appreciated the companion workbook!”

-Workshop Attendee (“How to DIY Your Ideal Career” with The Financial Diet)

“I recently attended a truly helpful workshop with Gen Z Career Coach about "How to DIY Your Ideal Career." Danielle speaks with sensitivity and offers a realistic, holistic view of the current job market and how to adapt and react appropriately. Her attitude regarding modern career growth paths is refreshing and grounding, and I would look forward to attending another session in the future.”

-Workshop Attendee (“How to DIY Your Ideal Career” with The Financial Diet)

Referrals welcome!

I value building strong relationships with therapists, counselors, social workers, academic advisors, fellow career coaches, and other helping professionals.

If you’re a therapist or other helping professional looking to make a client referral, please read my referrals page!

Sound like your vibe?

I’d love to hear from you :)