Therapy for Lawyers In California & Florida
Reduce anxiety & stress, decrease burnout, improve relationships, and find joy & purpose.
Reasons To Start Therapy For Lawyers
Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the weight of your workload?
Are your health and relationships suffering because of work?
Are you constantly under pressure to achieve billing targets and maintain a high standard of performance?
Do you struggle to find a balance between work and personal life?
We understand, and we want to help you work toward calm, confidence, and balance. We’ve got years of experience providing therapy for lawyers looking to live their best life.
Why Lawyers Often Need Therapy
For most lawyers, the high-stress life didn’t start with work or law school. It often started young. People who go into law are used to stressful, high stakes environments. This is usually childhood or adolescence. Somewhere along the way, you got the message that you needed to work hard to earn attention and connection. For some, it’s an adaptive reaction to trauma. Whether it was a difficult parent, intense sibling relationship, or competitive academic environment, you started to conflate work with worthiness. The intense and fast-moving pace of life is now so normal, it might feel uncomfortable or stressful to think about slowing down.
It doesn’t have to be this way. You can get off the hamster wheel of survival and into a groove of healthy productivity and meaningful rest.
Therapy for Lawyers: Helping You Thrive Amidst Pressure
Managing Stress in Legal Practice
Being a lawyer is tough. The relentless demands of juggling cases, clients, and nonstop email can lead to overwhelming stress. From preparing briefs to meeting tight deadlines, law can be a pressure cooker of responsibilities.
If something doesn't change, you're not sure what will happen.
Your stress is at all all-time high already. You're exhausted. Your friendships and relationships are suffering. Your inbox is overflowing. You never feel like you're doing enough. You never feel rested. And there doesn't seem to be any relief in sight.
We understand the challenges you face and are here to help you feel better. Our therapists have experience working with lawyers like you. We can help you navigate your work while taking care of your emotional well-being. Through open and non-judgmental conversations, we can address the stressors specific to your work. We're also committed to equipping you with coping strategies to manage stress.
Dealing with Burnout in the Legal World
Burnout is an insidious part of most lawyer's lives. It can erode the passion that fueled your interest in the field. You invest substantial energy, time, and emotional resources into your cases, colleagues and clients. But that leaves little for yourself. The exhaustion, cynicism, and detachment that come with burnout have a negative impact on your work. They also hurt your life satisfaction.
Addressing the signs of burnout is crucial for preserving your well-being. Our teletherapy sessions are designed to help you identify and tackle burnout head-on. Our therapists will work with you to understand the root causes of burnout. From there, we'll develop personalized strategies for coping.
What’s Possible With Therapy For Lawyers?
Decreased stress
Better relationships
Better physical and mental health
More satisfaction from work and life overall
Nurturing Your Personal Relationships
The demanding nature of legal work extends beyond the office. We know how often lawyers find it spilling over into your personal life. Balancing the demands of your career with the needs of your loved ones can be challenging. We can help you find harmony between your professional and personal responsibilities.
Long hours and tight deadlines can leave you feeling drained and disconnected from your loved ones. This might lead to less quality time spent together and a sense of detachment from family, friends, and partners. You miss them. You feel guilty you don't have more time for them. But you're not sure where to find more hours in the day for them.
We understand these challenges. Our teletherapy services provide a space to address these issues. We'll work together to develop a healthy work-life balance. We can help you nurture your personal connections while excelling in your career. We'll empower you to strengthen your relationships. You deserve to maintain and cultivate meaningful connections.
Our Practice Is 100% Therapist Owned & Operated
NO algorithms - everything is customized to you and your needs
NO ethical compromises or data sales - your privacy and the quality of your care is everything to us
NO venture capital or outside funding - we focus on your satisfaction instead of investors’
Building Resilience and Renewed Purpose Through Therapy For Lawyers
Finding Strength in Tough Times
You can build resilience and find renewed purpose. Our therapists will be there to guide you through tough times. Through our work together, you'll be able to face the pressures of your job with more ease and confidence.
Your Well-Being Matters
Your work is important, but so is your well-being. We're here to support you in re-centered yourself
Take the first step towards feeling better by exploring online therapy with us today. Our caring therapists are ready to help you thrive in your legal career and in your life.
How Online Therapy For Lawyers Fits Your Busy Life
We know that time is your most precious resource.
That's why we offer online therapy. You can engage in healing conversations from your office, home, or any location that suits your busy schedule. You can integrate therapy into your life without sacrificing quality care. Our platform allows you to connect with our therapists at a time that works for you, eliminating the need for time-consuming commutes.
The Efficacy of Online Therapy For Lawyers
You might wonder if online therapy really works. Research conclusively says that it does. In fact, we know that the effectiveness of therapy relies heavily on the quality of relationship between client and therapist. That's why we're so committed to making sure you have an excellent match. Our detailed matching process ensures you get the right therapist for your personality and problems.
Rest assured, our online platform is safe and private. We use a secure and HIPAA-compliant platform designed specifically for therapy. And as a backup, we have a HIPAA-compliant Zoom account.
Through teletherapy sessions, you can talk about your feelings and challenges openly. We'll give you tools to cope with stress and anxiety, and you'll see the positive impact it has on your emotional well-being.
FAQs: Therapy For Lawyers
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Being a lawyer is a specific professional experience. There are often high stakes, weighty demands, and company culture that combine to form a perfect storm for mental health problems. While its true many therapists can help with common mental health problems, we’ve found that the culture of working in Law is nuanced. Clients appreciate not having to explain general aspects of their careers like the reality of billable hours, rigid company hierarchy, and general expectations of availability in the field. When your therapist already understands these things, you can get right into working on what’s important to you.
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Therapy can help lawyers decrease your stress and anxiety levels by identifying what is most taxing on you specifically. Every person is different in what causes them stress, so addressing it needs to be personalized. We can also help you identify where appropriate boundaries can be set that don’t jeopardize your job or promotion prospects. In fact, we think that setting good boundaries will make you more productive and enjoy your work more.
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Lawyers face higher levels of anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, and relationship problems than the general public. Therapy can help with all these problems.
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Partners, friends, and family members of lawyers get used to having plans canceled last minute due to work. It’s unfortunate, but we know it’s not always avoidable. Therapy can help you improve your communication and in turn decrease conflict. We can help you build strong relationships that don’t demand huge amounts of your precious time. By focusing on quality time over quantity time, and by communicating what’s on your mind and in your heart, you can feel closer, more connected, and more supported.
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Secondary or vicarious trauma is a professional hazard for many lawyers. Recent definitions of trauma and diagnostic criteria for PTSD are inclusive of those who hear firsthand accounts of trauma. Our trauma therapists can help lawyers process their trauma using EMDR so they can get back to work feeling strong and capable.
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As holistic therapists, we recommend a whole-person approach to healthy coping. Through movement, mindfulness, trauma processing, healthy intake, and engaging with supportive friends and hobbies, you can feel more balanced and like yourself. We can help you figure out how to communicate and balance things that matter to you for greater harmony.
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Yes! Plus, the convenience for busy lawyers can’t be beat. While teletherapy may have a different feel than in-person sessions at first, many lawyers establish a strong connection with their therapist quickly. The effectiveness of therapy depends on goodness of fit, the therapist's skill, and your willingness to engage.
How The Process Works
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1. Consultation
We’ll talk for 15-20 minutes and get a sense of what's stressing you and how we can help.
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2. Free chat with your match
If we can match you with one of our therapists, you’ll have a free 10 minute chat to see if it feels like a good fit.
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3. Schedule a session
If you feel good about the therapist we’ve matched you with, schedule a first session. The first three sessions are a trial and there’s no pressure to continue.
Common Concerns For Legal Professionals And How Therapy For Lawyers Can Help
Lawyer Struggle: High Stress Levels
Feeling overwhelmed by the demands of a demanding profession, including heavy workloads, tight deadlines, and high client expectations. Worry about being judged by colleagues, clients, or peers for seeking therapy or admitting to mental health struggles.
How Therapy Helps:
Therapy offers stress management techniques tailored to each person in a confidential space.
Lawyer Struggle: Work-life Balance
Struggling to maintain a healthy balance between work and personal life, leading to feelings of burnout or exhaustion. They may be concerned about breaches of confidentiality or privacy if colleagues or clients were to find out about their therapy.
How Therapy Helps:
Through therapy, lawyers can develop strategies to establish healthier boundaries and achieve a better work-life balance, with therapists ensuring strict confidentiality to alleviate fears of privacy breaches.
Lawyer Struggle: Perfectionism
Feeling pressured to excel and achieve perfection in their work, leading to stress and anxiety. Some lawyers may be anxious about potential career repercussions if they lower their standards.
How Therapy Helps:
Therapy helps lawyers prioritize self-care and mental well-being, offering support to overcome perfectionism without fear of negative consequences.
Lawyer Struggle: Job Dissatisfaction
Feeling unfulfilled or disillusioned with their career choice, despite professional success. Fear of vulnerability: Concerned about being perceived as weak or vulnerable if they open up about their struggles in therapy.
How Therapy Helps:
Lawyers can develop healthy coping mechanisms to address job dissatisfaction and explore feelings of vulnerability, facilitating personal and professional growth.
Lawyer Struggle: Lack of Support
Feeling isolated or lacking support from colleagues or superiors in navigating the challenges of the legal profession is common. Some workplaces have better culture than others, and it can have a huge impact on your wellbeing. Fear of professional inadequacy or incompetence.
How Therapy Helps:
Therapy offers a space for personal growth and self-awareness, helping lawyers gain insight into their professional challenges. Therapy can also be an objective space to examine how workplace culture influences each person’s experience and mental health outcomes.
Lawyer Struggle: Ethical Dilemmas
Facing ethical dilemmas or moral conflicts in their work can weigh heavily on your conscience. Anxiety about feeling out of control or overwhelmed by emotions during therapy sessions or when confronting difficult issues.
How Therapy Helps:
Therapists provide professional support to lawyers navigating difficult ethical dilemmas, offering guidance and a safe space to process complex emotions and maintain control in challenging situations.
Lawyer Struggle: Fear of Failure
Feeling pressure to succeed and meet expectations, leading to fear of failure or inadequacy. Catastrophic thinking about minor career moves or mistakes. Anxious about the potential consequences if sensitive information were to be revealed to others.
How Therapy Helps:
Therapy helps lawyers balance their thinking and decrase catastrophizing. Therapists help lawyers find a renewed sense of purpose and satisfaction in their careers, offering support to overcome fear of failure.
Lawyer Struggle: Professional Identity
Struggling with questions of professional identity, purpose, or meaning in the legal profession. Fear of not being accepted or understood by others due to the specific challenges of the legal profession.
How Therapy Helps:
Through therapy, lawyers can gain clarity and perspective on their career goals and values, working with therapists who understand the complexities of the legal world and provide support without judgment.
Lawyer Struggle: Relationship Strain
Experiencing strain in personal relationships due to the demands and stressors of the legal profession. Fear of experiencing stigma or discrimination from colleagues or clients if they disclose mental health struggles or therapy participation.
How Therapy Helps:
Therapy aims to improve relationships both at work and in personal life, offering strategies to enhance communication and conflict resolution skills. Help deepening and strengthening relationships.
Lawyer Struggle: Emotional Toll
Dealing with the emotional toll of working with clients who are experiencing trauma, crisis, or legal difficulties. Apprehension about what therapy might reveal or how it might disrupt their current work or personal life.
How Therapy Helps:
Therapy helps lawyers cope with the emotional toll of their work, offering a supportive environment to address fears of change and navigate professional challenges with resilience.
Other Teletherapy Services in California and Florida
We believe in the power of personalized online therapy to nourish and empower lives. We cater to a diverse menu of mental health issues, ensuring that you receive the specialized care you deserve. Our California and Florida therapists are ready to address anxiety, trauma, LGBTQ matters, holistic therapy, couples' therapy, and even the developmental and social issues faced by teenagers. We serve all of Florida and California, with particular concentration in Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Rest assured, our team is all about promoting inclusivity, combating racism, embracing body positivity, and fostering a positive attitude towards sexuality. Your health and balance matter, and we're here to help you along your journey.