Helping Lawyers Sustain A Marriage

Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps couples to resolve conflict, improve communication, and renew intimacy to sustain and strengthen their marriage.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC works with lawyers who are smart at work, but incompetent in their personal relationships:

• "I have no time for my husband. I find him boring and too dependent."
• "I’ve become a boring person myself. I have nothing going on in my life."
• "I like to earn a lot of money, but I have no time to spend it with my wife."
• "I’m a good communicator – but I have nothing to say to my husband any more."
• "Actually, I feel I’m married to the job."
• "I interact with people all day, and I’m married. But I’m deeply lonely."
• "I’m so demoralized at work. All I want to do when I come home is watch TV."
• "I’m so unhappy at home. I can’t wait to get to work, where I have something going on."
• "It’s a relief to go away on a business trip – almost like a vacation."
• "There was this other lawyer on the trip . . . We were always working late at night, and we met in the bar . . . ."

Lawyers are gifted in client advocacy, but not in representing their own marital needs:

• At First You May Succeed, Then You Fail: Some lawyers succeed in finding a spouse or life partner. With the demands of professional life, however, sustaining this relationship may be impossible.
• Two-Lawyer Couples Mean Double-Trouble: Some lawyers couple up with another lawyer. Closeness and intimacy often fail if one or both are too busy -- or too stressed -- to spend time with the other.
• Lawyers Married to their Jobs Have "Affairs": Many hard-working lawyers struggle with impulses to engage in an extramarital affair, which compromises personal integrity and violates their marital commitment.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC provides couples counseling to lawyers and their partners that:

• Draws on many years of experience and extensive clinical training with several marital therapy frameworks.
• Uses a positive attitude, intuition, sense of humor, and fierce determination to help every couple achieve its highest potential.
• Even if a relationship seems near its "end," helps couples explore allavailable options, and to bring a relationship back to life, if possible.

In the "procedural due process" of couples counseling for lawyers:

• Either party can come in first, but it is best if both come in together the first time.
• After an initial session, you and your partner will decide if you wish to come in again.
• If either party is unwilling to continue, counseling can sometimes continue with the other party individually.
• Counseling sessions can be scheduled flexibly around the demands of your professional schedule. Early morning, midday, and evening appointments may be available.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps lawyers sustain and enrich their primary relationships. The stakes are high and the rewards can be great, especially when a marriage or other significant relationship is at serious risk.