Consulting Lawyers to Advance their Professional Careers

Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps lawyers overcome professional, personal and emotional obstacles to their productivity and professional development as lawyers.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC can help you if you know you’re unhappy as a lawyer, but you don’t know why:

• You may have achieved professional success, but still feel disappointed.
• Your emotional distress may be impeding your professional work.
• You may perform well at work, but you could be doing even better.
• You would suffer less distraction from your personal life if you were feeling less distressed at work.
• More "success" of the kind you have already achieved won’t make you happy, and could lead you deeper into despair.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC can help you even if your unhappiness is caused by factors unrelated to work. You may need to address these personal issues first, before you decide whether to change your job or career.

With self-insight and professional help, unhappy lawyers can resist a "downward spiral" of emotional distress and declining job performance.

At Lawyer Career Consulting DC, a careful assessment of a lawyer’s situation will identify the most important issues, so that you can focus on them and develop a meaningful plan of action. The consultation process begins with an assessment of:

• your thoughts and feelings,
• practical aspects of your situation, including your finances;
• the context of your career in your personal life; and
• your personal and professional needs.

To assess your needs, Lawyer Career Consulting DCwill look to the "symptoms" of your distress, such as:

• Difficulty concentrating.
• Decreased performance, efficiency and energy.
• Feelings of being overburdened and overwhelmed.
• Anxiety, aversion and dread.
• Feelings of being "lost" and "adrift."
• Procrastination and avoidance.
• Resentment and hypersensitivity to criticism.
• Fantasies of "escape" (for example, "running away" from the firm).
• Physical pain and discomfort, often mistaken for medical illness.
• Insomnia or disturbed sleep.
• Sadness, despair, and feelings of loss.
• Self-criticism and self-doubt.
• Loss of enjoyment and pleasure.
• Feeling isolated, misunderstood, and disrespected.

The "symptoms" of your unhappiness will suggest the type of change you need to make. Using dual frames of reference in law and psychotherapy, Lawyer Career Consulting DC can assess a wide range of issues that may contribute to your dissatisfaction.