Lawyers Need to Ask for Help

Lawyer Career Consulting DC provides confidential psychotherapy services to individual lawyers who are emotionally distressed but reluctant to ask for help.

Lawyers are a class of "professionals at risk":

• Out of Bounds to Complain at Work: You may need someone to talk to about personal issues that cannot be addressed in your law office.
• Knowing the Field of Law: Even if your legal work is not the source of your unhappiness, you may benefit from having a counselor who is deeply and personally familiar with the demands of law practice.
• Work Can Cause You Pain: Work stress may contribute significantly to your unhappiness, even if you are not considering a change in your profession or job.

As a lawyer, you may be reluctant to ask for help from others:

• You Give But Don’t Receive: You may be more comfortable offering advice to others, but reluctantly receive support from others.
• You Think But Don’t Feel: You may be more skillful speaking of your thoughts, rather than your feelings.
• You Fear Others Will Find Out: Psychotherapy may feel stigmatizing. And you might be concerned that a colleague or client could find out you are seeking psychotherapy.
• You Feel Weak or Defective: You may believe that asking for emotional support is a sign of weakness or a personal defect.
• But You Need Support: Despite your pride, it may be infeasible and unwise for you to continue to confront the demands of your life – especially as a practicing lawyer – without professional emotional support.
• You Need to Ask for Help: If you are feeling vulnerable, and "out of your game," you may need to ask for help.?

Lawyers face all human challenges and vulnerabilities. Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps lawyers overcome personal distress that may be unrelated to demands of work.