About us

Ignite Careers is an evidenced based career development and vocational rehabilitation practice founded in 2009. Ignite Careers is all about inspiration and empowerment. Empowerment comes through knowing yourself (values, passions, motivations, interests) and learning about the context in which you live and work. Ignite Careers is about inspiring passion and motivating purpose to achieve more success, satisfaction and effectiveness in both your personal and work life. We work closely with other businesses who shares our values and commitment, such as Balance at Work.

The founder Kylie Dearn has been on her own career journey. She initially trained as an Occupational Therapist at the University of Sydney before expanding her qualifications to include a Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Counselling and a Certificate in Education specializing in Career Development. She has also gained further qualifications in Narrative Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Kylie is able to combine her qualifications and expertise to provide a comprehensive range of career and vocational rehabilitation services.

Kylie is a qualified career practitioner and professional member of the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA). Kylie has been actively involved with the association and is currently the head of the NSW Professional Development Committee for the CDAA a position she has held since 2012.

Kylie is also on the NSW Professional Development Committee for Australian Association of Rehabilitation Counsellors (ASORC). In addition she is a registered Occupational Therapist and member of the Occupational Therapy Association of Australia.

Why choose us

When something is as important to you as your career, your future income or well-being you need to make informed decisions. With access to Ignite Careers range of assessment tools, professional coaching and counselling services you will have insight and knowledge to ensure you make the right decisions for your future career.

Our experienced coaches and counsellors are empathetic and very knowledgeable. They can guide you through career development and change processes, return to work programmes and help you rehabillitate or achieve a sense of well-being and engagement.

Our approach: Ignite Careers services are provided using evidence based approaches in therapy, counselling and careers. Specifically our services are underpinned by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and the ‘chaos theory of careers’ developed by Robert Pryor and Jim Bright. In addition motivational interviewing, narrative therapy and solutions focused therapy are also helpful support of our work aimed to help you identify where you want to go and how to get there faster.

Our clients: We are interested in individuals who really want to make changes and take action to achieve rich and meaningful lives. We are particularly skilled at people who have specific needs such as a medical or health conditions which need to be taken into consideration when choosing a career.

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