Caroline Fraissinet, Ed.D.
Career coaches help you perform better. Therapists help you process the toll. Career Wavelength was built to close the gap between those two rooms.
I spent seven years in higher education career services before founding Career Wavelength. Somewhere in the middle of advising other people on their careers, I was also quietly figuring out my own mental health in ways I hadn't fully named yet.
That combination is what this practice is built on. Not just knowing how career systems work, hiring committees, organizational incentives, what actually gets someone hired versus what career advice pretends gets someone hired, but knowing firsthand what it costs when those systems assume everyone runs the same way.
Who I work with
I work with two kinds of people, mostly. Some are at a career crossroads, coming off a layoff, back from time away, or done pretending a job that isn't working will fix itself. Others are managing a mental health condition or a neurodivergent brain, ADHD being the most common, and are ready to stop white-knuckling their way through a career that was never designed with them in mind. My particular depth is mood disorders and ADHD, both lived experience, both part of the work I do on the DBSA California board. The framework I use, building a career around how you actually function instead of an assumed baseline, lands just as well whether that's a mood disorder, ADHD, or just wanting work to serve your life instead of running it.
Credentials
I hold an Ed.D. in Organizational Change and Leadership, an M.A. in Cinema Studies from NYU, and a B.S. in Film/Video Production from Drexel. I serve on the Board of Directors of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance of California, I'm a certified peer support specialist through DBSA National, and in 2025 I received the DBSA Outstanding Peer Leader Award.
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None of this is about loving your job. It's about building a working life you can actually sustain, on your terms, not your org chart's.
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