About Us
WorkLife Wellness Lab integrates behavioral health, nervous-system regulation, and vocational rehabilitation to help adults restore emotional balance, executive function, and sustainable participation in work and life.
Our Origin Story
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In 2018, HD Career Consulting LLC was created by Bree who had a desire to reshape what career development supports looked like She began her career in adult career development within higher education. She learned quickly that many career services primarily focused on traditional students. Individuals who were already working while attending school, with intersectional experiences that did not fit conventional student development models, were often under-supported. These same programs were typically under-resourced, failing to address the complex needs of adults navigating their career development amidst various responsibilities and life circumstances.
In 2018, she left higher ed and launched HD Career Consulting LLC with a focus on helping adults who work get unstuck and find meaningful and sustainable work. MyHDCareer.com emerged from that initiative in 2020, offering individualized coaching through a proprietary career development planning and search framework called the #1job1offer. This coaching system remains integral to our programs today.
In 2023, we transitioned to a holistic support model and rebranded from MyHDCareer.com to WorkLife Wellness Lab. Our approach addresses the adult working experience from a restorative and holistic perspective. We have integrated the values of wellness, empowerment, and systemic support into our services and mission, ensuring that our clients receive comprehensive assistance tailored to their unique situations.
Bree developed and tested every aspect of the programs offered, building them from the ground up using her subject matter expertise in adult career development and program design. She drew on evidence-based practices from various fields, including career psychology, learning and cognition, behavioral psychology, and theories of emotional wellness. Her commitment to integrating these diverse disciplines creates a robust framework that fosters growth, resilience, and fulfillment within career paths has served hundreds of adults a each year.
Today, What started as a team of one back in 2018, has now blossomed into a team of 5. We look forward to serving you right where you are at so you can cultivate a WorkLife journey that takes you to where you want to be, one sustainable and authentic step at a time. We have a passion for teaching holistic, authentic, and sustainable strategies in work and life.
We specialize in helping adults who are working or seeking to work, particularly those navigating neurodivergence, living with a chronic impairment, or who have experienced WorkLife burnout. Our goal is to assist individuals in reframing and reinventing their work and life experiences to align with their unique needs and aspirations. Through tailored assessments and expert guidance, we promote sustainable strategies that foster authentic living, enabling clients to achieve a fulfilling balance between personal and professional realms. Our flexible support options ensure that each client receives the individualized attention necessary to thrive in their specific circumstances.
Guiding Principles
At the heart of our WorkLife Journey is a set of principles that guide how we approach every aspect of client support.
Lead with authenticity, plan for sustainability.
Meaningful support, lasting outcomes.
Address the root, create access.
Teach to empower, foster independence.
Learn, grow, evolve.
Focus on strengths, not deficits.
Confidence through action, advocacy for life.
Actionable strategies, real-time progress.
We believe in empowering individuals to navigate their work and life journeys by focusing on strengths, promoting self-advocacy, and equipping them with the tools they need to succeed. Here’s what shapes our work:
Meet our team.
At WorkLife Wellness Lab, all clinicians share a common foundation in behavioral health, nervous-system regulation, and evidence-based rehabilitation counseling, ensuring that every service supports both emotional well-being and functional recovery.
We leverage 50+ years of combined expertise in helping professions, people work, coaching, and therapy to help you overcome the social, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and environmental obstacles that leave you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out—so you can lead a more sustainable and authentic WorkLife Journey.
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Bree is a Vocational Rehabilitation Therapist with more than 17 years of combined experience helping adults navigate emotional, cognitive, and functional challenges that interfere with sustainable participation in work and life.
Her work integrates behavioral health, nervous-system regulation, and vocational rehabilitation to treat emotional and behavioral dysfunction that disrupts focus, confidence, and self-efficacy. Bree combines Polyvagal Theory, CBT, ACT, and DBT with rehabilitation principles to help clients restore executive function, strengthen self-regulation, and rebuild capacity for sustainable work and living.
Her tone is structured, educational, and restorative, emphasizing nervous-system awareness, practical skill use, and self-understanding to promote real-world change.
Bree’s background includes more than a decade in workforce development and adult career planning, giving her deep insight into how stress, identity, and self-worth are shaped by work experiences and life transitions. She applies this expertise clinically to help clients explore how career pressures, perfectionism, burnout, and work-related trauma affect emotional regulation, confidence, and overall well-being.
Her advanced knowledge of career development, skills transferability, and vocational assessment informs her therapeutic process—bridging emotional awareness with practical strategies that help clients rebuild confidence, clarify purpose, and create sustainable engagement in both work and life. Bree also teaches clients how to leverage self-knowledge and transferable strengths to identify, pursue, and maintain meaningful, sustainable careers aligned with their values and capacity.
Bree is particularly passionate about working with neurodivergent adults—including those with ADHD, Autism (Level 1), and chronic health conditions—as well as individuals managing anxiety, depression, or burnout related to work and life demands.
She is also the creator of the #1Job1Offer Principle, a framework that helps clients clarify values, align goals, and create meaningful, sustainable careers. Her approach draws from CBT, ACT, DBT, and Polyvagal-informed practices, delivered through a rehabilitation lens that emphasizes emotional insight, nervous-system stability, and sustainable behavioral change.
Executive Director, Founder, Mental Health & Vocational Therapist
Vocational Assessments & Evaluations & WorkLife Wellness Therapeutic Services Provider
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Helen is a fully licensed clinical social worker & therapist with 20+ years of combined experience supporting mental wellness, specializing in chronic illness, neuro-inclusive counseling, and trauma-informed care for adults experiencing change and transition in work and life. Helen provides therapeutic services. Helen is also our clinical supervision supervision and practice compliance Consultant.
Mental Health Therapist, Clinical Supervision & Compliance Consultant
Therapeutic Assessments & Services Provider
