LAW FIRM COUNSELLING SERVICES

Mental Health Counselling for your Legal Talent

We offer customized and flexible virtual mental health counselling programs for Toronto based law firms. Counselling programs are designed to meet the precise wellness needs and goals of your firm.   

How is a customized counselling program helpful? 

We provide proactive and responsive individual counselling to address the immediate mental health needs of your talent. Managing partners and administration at law firms are often caught between performance/retention priorities and compassionate concern for talent around unexpected life events that may occur as well as a range of mental health challenges. Our counsellors often fill an important gap between observed concerns about lawyer wellbeing at your firm and the practicalities of where to send your talent to get the proper care in order to get better. 

Immediate Access to Knowledgeable Therapists

We reduce barriers and wait times for your lawyers to access one-on-one therapy with a Registered Psychotherapist or Registered Social Worker who specializes in the well-being of legal professionals.

Each member of our counselling team gets the world of lawyering - your talent will not have to explain the unique aspects of the profession to their counsellor. As such, we can get on with the work of helping lawyers feel better as soon as possible.

We don’t just work between 9 to 5. Our team offers flexible availability, including evenings & weekends. We understand the time constraints and demands of lawyers. We offer timings that work for our clients' schedules. 

Our Record of Care

We’ve been providing in-house mental health counselling programs at a number of law firms since 2017 and have had strong program participation.  We currently service a number of Toronto law firms and have provided therapy to over 900 lawyers in our practice. The feedback we've received from lawyers is that therapy sessions are extremely helpful in improving their mental health and sustaining their careers. Additionally, lawyers have expressed that the program reflects positively on their relationship with their employer.

How are we different from other counselling services/programs?

• We offer expertise/specialization in lawyer mental health by understanding the risk factors unique to the profession, the realities and constraints lawyers work under, as well as legal technical terms. We do not offer generic programs.
• We provide practical recommendations and strategies to our clients that fit the structures and realities of legal practice and can be integrated into a busy thriving legal practice.
• We set up the program so that there is no red tape and so that lawyers are seen quickly by a therapist. Lawyers book therapy appointments directly through our online scheduler or by sending only one email. There are no lengthy intake forms/questionnaires.  
• Depth of support: Firms can customize their counselling program to offer short or long term therapy support. Even with short term support, lawyers can choose to continue with the same therapist by utilizing their extended health benefits.  
• Past studies of lawyer well being have documented that lawyers find it challenging to seek professional counselling help. However, we have observed that through law firm counselling programs, lawyers feel they can trust the counselling service so accessing an appointment occurs quickly.