Mental Health & Substance Abuse

Small steps during client interviews and other interactions can establish the safety, trust, and transparency needed for you to provide effective representation and for clients to feel empowered by the counsel they receive.

Lawyers operate in high-stakes environments where stress, overwhelm, and pressure often feel constant. This program explores how mindset and resilience can transform the way attorneys experience and manage these challenges.

While being a legal professional is very rewarding, it also creates a lot of unwanted stress, burnout and challenges around work life balance. Lawyers often have limited time for their own self-care, which greatly impacts their mental and physical well-being. In this program, participants will explore what it means to be a resilient legal professional and live a more harmonious life.

Trauma-informed lawyering provides a framework for recognizing and addressing trauma responses to help attorneys meet the needs of their clients and uphold ethical responsibilities of the profession.

Learn to reset your nervous system and focus clearly on your work by recognizing why and how brains and bodies react to internal and external stimuli to produce anxiety responses.

This program focuses on the intersection of mental health and family law. It addresses types of mental illnesses common among participants in family law matters, signs and symptoms of those illnesses, and what to do when an attorney encounters suspected mental illness of a client, family member, or opposing counsel.

This program explores mental health and substance use in the legal practice, examining the common stressors attorneys face and offering strategies to navigate them effectively.

Recognizing the demanding nature of the legal profession, this session provides proven techniques for eliminating toxic stress, balancing personal and professional priorities, and encouraging peak performance. This program educates legal professionals on the impact toxic stress has on the body and brain - resulting in detrimental consequences to health, wellness and job performance. It then provides participants with evidence-based strategies to lower stress, build resilience and thrive in their personal and professional lives.

For years, the presenter doubted whether meaningful change was possible given the alarming attorney health statistics reported by the ARDC. However, exploring holistic and consciousness-based approaches revealed that improving attorney well-being is more within our control than she once believed. This presentation is designed to educate and empower attorneys to take charge of their health, enhance their careers, and create lasting, positive change for not only themselves but their clients.

In this presentation Paige Fox discusses the wellness crisis in the legal profession, the broader health crisis, physical fitness / exercise, mindfulness / meditation, frequencies / sound science, and nutrition / diet.

ABA studies have shown a high percentage of alcohol dependency among lawyers, relative to other professions, which means all practitioners should have strategies for identifying dependency and addressing its impacts.

Frequent exposure to client trauma takes an emotional toll on practitioners. Being able to identify the impacts of secondary trauma and how to address them safeguards emotional well-being and helps support productive practices.