So pleased to be shortlisted for Family Law Champion of the Year at the Family Law Awards 2024, especially alongside some esteemed company!
This one is voted for by a public vote so if you
a) think I seem like a good egg;
b) believe that the worlds of psychology and family law should be more intertwined; and/or
c) have worked with me in any capacity and think I'm a force for good
Then please vote for me - I would be absolutely thrilled to win.
I've included below my bio and the link to the survey. Voting closes on 19 September:
Annmarie Carvalho, TCC
I would love to win the Family Law Champion Award for bringing the worlds of psychology and family law closer together.
Having worked as a family solicitor and mediator myself (at Farrer & Co for over a decade), I realised that practising family law without having access to psychologically-informed training and emotional support was like trying to eat spaghetti with a spoon. So I set out to change things!
I retrained to become a therapist and trainer for lawyers and am the founder of the multi-award-winning agency, TCC.
I have built a team of former lawyers turned therapists, coaches and trainers. The uniqueness of our approach is summed up in our motto: ‘because we’ve walked in your shoes’. As we believe the best placed person to support family lawyers is someone who’s lived (and worked!) through similar experiences.
We provide high-quality therapeutic supervision for family lawyers, therapy and coaching. We also provide in-house counselling (individually and in groups) for family law teams and firms. Finally, we provide corporate health audits so you can make sure your firm/chambers is looking after its people well.
In recent years, I’ve devised innovative and ground-breaking training sessions from scratch, introducing family practitioners to subjects they’ve never had training on before. These include ‘how to work with vulnerability and suicidality’, ‘how to become trauma-informed’ and ‘how to roll with resistance and influence people’. Our sessions fuse the worlds of therapy and law; combining therapeutic principles and a hefty dollop of legal practicalities. We even make the SRA and Law Society guidance fun and engaging!
I am also a respected and well-known social media commentator and public speaker. I’m at the helm of the movement making family justice more psychologically-informed and attuned to the wellbeing of its practitioners. And I hope to remain here for years to come!
See you all at the awards in November.
