Mental health and wellness for legal professionals
As a lawyer, you’re committed to helping your clients. Now commit to helping yourself.
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Supporting Lawyers on Their Paths Toward Wellness
We’re not your average therapists. We’re also lawyers. Just like you.
Drawing on training and experience in both law and social work,
Ladybug Wellness is committed to enhancing the mental health and
wellness of legal professionals through individual and group coaching,
and workplace training and education.
The rates of substance use disorders and mental health issues are higher among lawyers than among other types of professionals or the population at large.
The Stats
OF LAWYERS SUFFER FROM DEPRESSION
Of lawyers suffer from anxiety
of lawyers suffer from problematic alcohol use
Women
Of lawyers contemplate leaving law due to mental health issues, burnout, or stress
Men
lawyers are twice as likely as other adults to contemplate suicide
You’re Not Alone
The legal field’s fast-paced environment, long hours, endless demands, and competitive culture feed stress and anxiety. The adversarial nature of the work itself exacerbates the stress that pervades the field.
These realities, in combination with the strain of daily life and the constant struggle to balance work, relationships, children, aging parents, financial stress, and other circumstances, have resulted in a heightened incidence among lawyers of stress-related physical illness, mental health conditions, substance use disorders, and even suicide.
However, being a lawyer does not have to mean being unhappy.
Nor does it mean you have to suffer alone.
Ladybug Wellness supports lawyers...
In identifying practical, emotional, behavioral, and strategic approaches to managing stress, coping with anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns, improving self- care, achieving personal growth and, in turn, becoming happier, more engaged, and more effective attorneys.
Let’s work together to enhance your overall well-being.
Wellness Services for Lawyers
Ladybug Wellness offers a unique set of services designed specifically for legal professionals.
We know that being a lawyer is hard. We’ve been there. Let us help you find greater balance, joy, and satisfaction in your personal and professional life.
Individual & Group Coaching
As a legal professional, do you...
- Feel emotionally exhausted, demoralized, hopeless, despondent, or apathetic?
- Experience sleep disturbances, changes in appetite, frequent headaches, or other physical complaints?
- Feel lonely, isolated, or withdrawn from personal or professional relationships?
- Dread going to work, struggle to focus and remain productive, feel inadequate, or contemplate making a career change?
- Allow client demands and work stress to encroach on personal time or struggle to balance work with the many other demands and challenges of daily life?
- Self-medicate with alcohol or drugs, have an unhealthy relationship with food, or engage in other unproductive or harmful coping mechanisms?
Ladybug Wellness provides confidential, one-on-one and small group coaching for lawyers, law students, and paralegals in an atmosphere of mutual respect, transparency, compassion, and non-judgment. We work in partnership with our clients to identify mental health and wellness needs, goals, and solutions.
Coaching is tailored to each individual client and may address, among other issues:
- Workplace Stress & Burnout
- Boundary Setting & Self-Care
- Imposter Syndrome
- Work-Parenting Balance
- Aging & Retirement
- Substance Abuse
- Anxiety
- Depression
Workplace Training & Education
As a legal employer or law school, are you concerned about…
- Low Morale?
- High Attrition Rates?
- Decreased Productivity or Quality of Work?
- Absenteeism or Presenteeism?
- Ethical Decision Making and Professional Civility?
- Lack of Focus on Wellness and Self-Care?
Ladybug Wellness works with law schools, legal employers, and professional associations and organizations to raise awareness about mental health and wellness issues and available resources within the legal community. We provide education and training programs designed to cultivate a workplace culture of wellness and support, and to enhance overall lawyer well being.
Presentations are tailored to the needs of each individual group, and cover a range of topics, including:
- Stress Management
- Suicide Awareness
- Self-Care and Mindfulness
- Compassion Fatigue
- Post-Pandemic Workplace Challenges
- Substance Abuse
"Change – real change – comes from the inside out.”
Stephen Covey
Author, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
