This paper presents the Five-Step Career Planning Strategy (5-SCP) that is a counseling framework for helping athletes with career transitions. The first four steps in this strategy deal with mapping out the client’s past experiences, current situation, and perceived future. The last step involves integrating their past, present, and projected future into a career and life strategy. Starting out with basic ideas about career transitions, the author proceeds to describe how the 5-SCP framework was developed and tested, provides a detailed step-by-step description of the 5-SCP, and finishes with reviewing consultants’ and clients’ reflections on the 5-SCP application.