26 August 2025

Trauma-Informed Support for Legal Professionals

Protecting wellbeing. Sustaining performance. Supporting your people.

Lawyers working on traumatic casework face unique pressures. Exposure to distressing material and repeated stories of harm and crisis can take a toll on mental health, resilience, and team cohesion. Without structured support, this can lead to secondary or vicarious trauma, burnout, and reduced effectiveness.

We provide specialist trauma support for law firms, designed to help partners, supervisors, and lawyers safeguard their wellbeing while maintaining professional excellence.

Our Services

Partner & Supervisor Training

Managing a Team Through Traumatic Casework

  • Understand trauma in the legal context: neurobiology, risk factors, and real-world examples
  • Build a trauma-resilient team culture through best practice and role-modelling
  • Spot signs and symptoms of trauma, and learn how to open safe, supportive conversations
  • Access resources and tools to protect both your team and yourself

Self-Care in Traumatic Casework

  • Explore how traumatic casework impacts lawyers personally
  • Learn practical wellbeing tools: emotional regulation, grounding, and stress processing
  • Develop self-care strategies: reframing intrusive thoughts, practicing self-compassion, separating work and self
  • Gain guidance on when and how to seek support—from peers, supervisors, or professional services

Confidential One-to-One Trauma Support

Specialist therapeutic support for individuals

  • Delivered by highly qualified, trauma-focused workplace therapists (15+ years’ experience)
  • Expertise in managing primary, secondary, and vicarious trauma
  • Skilled in evidence-based approaches including CBT, psychodynamic, and trauma-focused modalities
  • Support for associated challenges such as anxiety, grief, burnout, and loss of professional confidence

Why Work With Us?

Specialist experience in the legal sector – we understand the unique pressures lawyers face

Evidence-based and trauma-informed – grounded in the latest clinical research and best practice

Trusted by leading law firms – we deliver workshops, training, and confidential one to one support to the UK’s leading law firms 

Protecting Your Firm and Your People

Investing in trauma-informed support safeguards not just the wellbeing of your lawyers, but also the performance and reputation of your firm.

Getting Started

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