Coaching Lawyers to Take Action to Improve Their Lives

Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps lawyers take practical steps to manage compulsive and addictive behaviors, improve communication with clients and colleagues, set reasonable limits on work demands, and strengthen family relationships.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC will help you take action to relieve your distress:

• Some symptoms can be relieved through simple behavioral change -- for example, releasing stress through exercise.
• If your issues are primarily emotional, you need to ask for emotional help, in psychotherapy. Click to Life Counseling.
• If you need to strengthen your personal life, Lawyer Career Consulting DC can help you take action to improve your relationships, develop personal interests, andmanage your health.

As a lawyer, you may:

• Avoid showing personal vulnerability;
• Seek help reluctantly with any personal or professional issue;
• Believe that self-disclosure will damage your career; and
• Fear loss of a security clearance or damage to your political reputation.

In a safe and confidential consultation, Lawyer Career Consulting DC can help you confront feelings of vulnerability and stress, which if unaddressed can:

• Make it difficult for you to work;
• Cause you to act irritably, impulsively, or defensively;
• Motivate unethical professional or personal behavior, and
• Impair your satisfaction and joy in life.

If you wish to continue practicing law, Lawyer Career Consulting DC can help you improve your performance and increase your professional satisfaction by:

• controlling addictive behaviors (such as over-work and substance abuse);
• managing time commitments;
• avoiding procrastination, in order to minimize deadline crises;
• assuaging painful feelings (such as guilt) which may drive you to engage in compulsive activities, including over-work;
• improving your communication skills with clients and other lawyers;
• practicing skills of empathy, and side-stepping power struggles;
• ensuring time for family, friends and children;
• taking regular vacation and maintaining regular exercise; and
• setting priorities strategically, to ensure time for business development.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC can provide "personal coaching" to address these issues:

• If you are in private practice, your firmcan retain Lawyer Career Consulting DC to work with you on professional development and performance issues.
• If you are self-referred, Lawyer Career Consulting DC can work with you at your own pace to help you get "unstuck" in your professional development, and to increase your productivity and effectiveness.
• In professional coaching, Lawyer Career Consulting DC can arrange for meetings with you on a confidential basis, either in your office or in ours. Follow-up consultations can be provided to you by phone or email, as needed in the course of your work?

Ed can help you understand the nature and sources of your discontent, develop a realistic plan to address these causes, and follow the plan.