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Coming Autumn 2025: Staying Sane in Family Law

A Survival Guide for Lawyers Working in the Most Emotionally Charged Practice Area

Our founder, Annmarie’s debut book, Staying Sane in Family Law, is set for release on 30 September 2025 published by Bath Publishing. It’s a deeply practical and refreshingly honest guide for anyone in the family law world on how to navigate the emotional intensity of practice (with a big dollop of humour!). Family law asks a lot of lawyers - compassion, clarity, resilience, emotional control, and mental stamina. Burnout, vicarious trauma and overwhelm are often part of the job. This book helps you stay steady, human, and effective in the middle of it all. Inside, she shares:

  • Tools to protect your mental health
  • Strategies for building emotional resilience
  • Ways to keep boundaries with difficult or distressed clients
  • Real-world stories from the frontline (Annmarie's included)

Whether you’re just starting out or have decades of experience, this book will help you not just survive, but thrive in family law. Click here to come to a seminar (and get a free book!) - Attend the seminar
Click here to buy the book - Buy the book

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Business Support

We support high-octane organisations create healthy cultures, taking their people from high-pressured to happy.

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Improve your team's morale and effectiveness and make your team a psychologically safer place to be.

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We know how the legal industry ticks. We’ve worked with thousands of lawyers and business support professionals. From partners to paralegals, HR directors to trainees, we’ve established long-lasting and trusting relationships.

We see similar patterns and dynamics across organisations time and time again. Communication difficulties, lack of psychological safety, delegation and supervision dilemmas, lack of trust and low morale, amongst many others.

Through our business support service, we are a trusted confidante and advisor to many organisations, particularly those in the legal world, offering practical advice and a perspective borne of our years of experience across the market.

Examples of our services include:

  • In-house therapeutic support schemes;
  • Bespoke training sessions to deepen communication and understanding within teams (ideal for away days);
  • Wellbeing audits including interviews with your team, policy and procedure reviews and practical recommendations for improving morale;
  • Ethical practice and communications advice for difficult times, including our urgent ‘trouble-shooting’ service for situations involving safeguarding and suicidality of colleagues or clients.
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Coaching and Therapy

We have over 30 years industry experience.

At TCC, we offer both coaching and therapy, each with its unique focus. Coaching is future-oriented, helping you set and achieve concrete goals, while therapy/counselling addresses deeper emotional or psychological challenges. Our coaching approach is deep and integrates emotional intelligence; crucial for a successful legal/professional career.

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Supporting Legal Professionals Through Change

The legal profession is constantly evolving. Our coaching helps lawyers
adapt to changes such as transitioning into leadership, managing new responsibilities, or adapting to new roles within their firm.

Whether you’re moving into management or adjusting to a new position,
our coaching can help smooth the transition and foster long-term success.

Different Personalities. Shared Ethos.

Why Choose TCC?

Established in 2018, We’ve
established quite the track record.

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Expertise in Law

We are all high-achieving professionals who have re-trained as therapists and coaches so we can help those in high-pressure industries to be at their best.

Award-Winning Service

We've won no less than eight awards since we set up in 2018 for our innovation, client service and the support we provide to those in fast-paced worlds.

Tailored Coaching

Our specialist coaching approach is informed by our own experiences of management, business and life in the law.

Confidentiality

You can be sure that we will maintain the highest levels of discretion and confidentiality. This is fundamental to our ethics and the way we work.

Proven Success

Whether in a training, therapeutic or coaching context, our clients are happy with our services. Check out our testimonials if you don't believe us!st.

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Meet the founder

I’m Annmarie Carvalho, trainer, therapist,
coach & therapeutic supervisor

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I am the founder of TCC and set up the agency in 2018 to
help lawyers and other professionals to go from highly
pressured to happy!
In my previous life, I was a family lawyer and mediator at Farrer & Co,
one of the top London law firms, for over a decade.

Working on complicated divorce and finances cases and difficult disputes over children gave me crucial insight into how to manage tricky relationships and how to operate at the highest level in stressful situations.

I wanted to set up an agency made up of therapists and coaches, all who have worked at the highest echelons in their professions.

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