Blogs & Articles

Ideas for Finding Clarity, Purpose & Hope

Explore articles and professional perspectives from Blair Hollis, M.A., BCCC, BCMHC on career development, counseling, student career clarity, leadership, self-awareness, and finding purpose.

Young Adults & Student Career Clarity

Career Clarity for Young Adults: Exploring Your Unique Abilities

Career Uncertainty at College Entry Age in an Artificial Intelligence World

Helping Parents Empower Young Adults: From Uncertainty to Career Clarity

Why Measuring Cognitive Abilities Helps Students Know Themselves

Career Exploration in High School: A Precursor to Career Clarity

Why Educating Our Youth Requires Developing Career Clarity

Gen Z: Searching in All the Wrong Places for Meaning

The Role of High Schools in Helping Students Create a Clear Career Path

Career Development & Purpose

Finding Your Calling in an Uncertain Job Market

Finding Our Calling

Can Faith Play a Role in Career Clarity?

Beyond Career Certainty: Evidence of Widespread Career Knowledge Gaps

Innovation: Survival Skills for Our Next Generation

Counseling, Relationships & Hope

Couple Therapy: The Marriage Garden
Contrasting Family Counseling & Individual Counseling
Identifying the Efficacy of Counselor Interpersonal Skills
How to Bridge the Disconnect in a Broken World
The Efficacy of Spiritual Counseling

Leadership & Professional Development

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Self-Awareness: Enhancing Optimal Performance

How Can Psychology Contribute to Optimal Performance?

Strengths Awareness in the Workplace: A Method to Enhance Performance

How CHROS Management Can Stem Employee Burnout

Enterprise Development: Why Connecting Purpose Matters

The Efficacy of Integrating Faith & Work

Memory Transfer: The Efficacy of Time Management

Research & Professional Papers

Selected professional papers exploring career development, counseling, human potential, purpose, and the psychological foundations of meaningful work.

Solving the Career Equation: Hope, Self-Efficacy, and the Movement From Career Uncertainty to Clarity, Purpose, and Engagement

Two Pathways of Work and Human Motivation: A Hope-Focused Framework for Reward, Trust, Purpose, and Well-Being