Maree, J.G. (Kobus)2023-06-072023-06-072022-01-23Maree, J.G. Using Integrative Career Construction Counselling to Promote Autobiographicity and Transform Tension into Intention and Action. Educ. Sci. 2022, 12, 72. https://DOI.org/10.3390/educsci12020072.2227-7102 (online)10.3390/educsci12020072http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91038DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT : The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to South African POPI Act requirements.This article reports on the use of integrative career counselling to promote autobiographical reasoning in a purposively sampled gifted 16-year-old female learner with moratorium career identity status. I implemented an explanatory, mixed-methods (QUALITATIVE-quantitative; uppercase denoting the bigger weighting given to the qualitative aspect) research design and used qualitative and quantitative career construction counselling techniques and methods and quantitative career construction counselling techniques and methods and strategies to construct data. The Maree Career Matrix (MCM) was used to gather the participant’s career interests (“scores”) quantitatively, and the Career Interest Profile (CIP) was used to elicit her micro-narratives (“stories”) qualitatively. An adapted version of thematic data analysis was used to analyse the data. The intervention promoted the participant’s (self-)reflection and reflexivity, transformed her tension into intention, led to an increase in her career options, and helped her revitalise her sense of meaning, purpose, and positivity. While the findings are encouraging, future (longitudinal) research is needed to establish the long-term influence of the intervention espoused here.en© 2022 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.Integrative career construction counsellingGifted and talentedIntervention studyMoratorium career identity statusCareer interest profileMaree career matrixSDG-04: Quality educationSDG-08: Decent work and economic growthArticle