Supervision / Reflective Practice for Family Lawyers
Do you have clients that keep you awake at night, that frustrate you or make you feel anxious and sick?
Perhaps you struggle to shake off the emotions that clients bring to meetings?
Do you feel under constant pressure, finding it a challenge to manage unrealistic expectations, sometimes your own?
Maybe you struggle to juggle your work and home lives, and the demands of family alongside targets?
Being a family lawyer is a particularly challenging role. The professional advice a family lawyer offers encompasses all areas of the client’s life – children, finances, assets, pensions and more. At the same time, there is a need for understanding and empathy for clients who are going through a period of traumatic change and may be distressed.
Small wonder then that family lawyers can find themselves entangled in the stress and emotions of the clients they are supporting. Add this to the pressure of dealing with challenging clients and professional targets, and you have a recipe for burnout
What if you could access a safe, confidential, impartial place to share your worries and stresses, without fear of upsetting your boss, letting anyone down, or appearing to have failed? What if you had a space in which to reflect on your successes and development, so you could learn and grow?
Imagine the benefits this would bring to your energy levels, your client and other relationships and the quality of the work you do…
Supervision changes everything.
I am a qualified Family Law Supervisor, having successfully completed the FLiP Faculty Family Law Supervisor training. Click to check out my profile on the Family Law Supervisors website.
There is more information about the benefits of supervision here, on the Family Law Supervisors website.
For more details, or to discuss reflective practice/supervision, please contact me at claire@clairemacklincoaching.com.
“I have found these sessions immeasurably helpful - a true example of the firm putting staff wellbeing first. It is refreshing to be able to check in with Claire on a regular basis to download anything that I have been bottling up and to analyse my performance and mental health holistically.
Claire is an excellent supervisor. Her sincerity and warmth make her extremely easy to work with and confide in. Claire is an extremely good listener and I cannot recommend her highly enough”
“I have found our sessions to be incredibly helpful not only from a professional stand point but also personally. It is really nice to have the space to speak to someone with no judgment and no expectations that is there to listen and help you, no matter how small the problem might seem.
I particularly like points in our conversations where you identify patterns in my thinking that I perhaps have not even thought of before - using could instead of should and today in particular talking about my challenging client! It has helped me get to know myself better which has been really nice.
It has been a totally worthwhile and good experience.”