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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

Our Services

Training

Our interactive and award-winning training will help your people to work in a psychologically-informed, ethical and more effective way.

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About Our Training

Our training will engage your people in a way others can't. Find out why.

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At TCC, we equip lawyers and other professionals with psychological insight through our tailored training sessions. Our award-winning, CPD accredited courses are designed to meet the unique needs of professionals navigating emotionally complex, high-stakes situations, wherever you are in the world.

Sessions are delivered both virtually and in-person to groups large and small.

Whether you're dealing with vulnerable clients, supervising a stressed legal team, or navigating difficult situations, our courses will help you respond ethically and effectively.

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Supporting Clients in Crisis

Working with Vulnerability and Suicidality

We provide the tools to recognise and respond appropriately to clients exhibiting signs of vulnerability, including suicidality, for those who find themselves as first responders in situations involving emotional distress.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand risk factors and warning signs of suicidality.
  • Learn appropriate ways to respond without overstepping professional boundaries.
  • Build confidence in referring clients to appropriate mental health services.

Who would benefit:
Anyone dealing with at-risk clients e.g. family, private client, personal injury, medical negligence, immigration, criminal and employment lawyers. Promotes ethical practice and duty of care within Law Society and SRA guidelines.

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Managing Clients Under Pressure

Handling Hostility and High Emotion

Find out how to manage clients who are angry, defensive or emotionally dysregulated due to the stress of legal processes.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Techniques for de-escalating confrontational conversations.
  • Understand the psychology behind high-emotion behaviours.
  • Reduce burnout by managing emotional contagion with clients.

Who would benefit:
Those routinely exposed to anger and high emotion in their clients. This course enhances communication and reduces conflict escalation.

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Legal Practice with Awareness and Sensitivity

How To Be A Trauma-Informed Lawyer

Trauma impacts memory, language and behaviour and is far more widespread than we might think. This course gives you the essential psychological toolkit to work effectively with clients without retraumatising them.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand key aspects of neuroscience and the effects of trauma on processing, communication and decision-making.
  • Learn how to build trust and maintain professional empathy.
  • Create trauma-informed interactions and strategies.

Who would benefit:
Indispensable for pro bono, immigration, family, and criminal lawyers. This course aligns with the need for all legal services to become trauma-informed.

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How To Roll with Resistance and Influence People

Find out why the traditional ways we use to persuade people to do things don’t work.

Learn ground-breaking techniques from the world of psychology which help us have impact and influence clients in positive directions.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Spot signs of high emotion and dysregulation in our clients.
  • Learn strategies to help you work with resistance rather than butting heads!
  • Reduce miscommunication and frustration by using emotionally intelligent techniques.

Who would benefit:
Anyone in the legal profession who routinely encounters resistance and opposition i.e. everyone!

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Relational Skills for Legal Contexts

Working With Vulnerability and Mental Health Disorders

This course focuses on the dynamics when working with those with mental health disorders and other vulnerabilities.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the categorisation and symptoms of mental health disorders.
  • Learn strategies to keep the work professional and emotionally safe.
  • Create communication strategies to support the client.

Who would benefit:
Highly beneficial for those working with clients with mental health issues, high anxiety or other vulnerabilities. Supports compliance with the Law Society and the SRA requirements regarding vulnerable clients.

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Creating Safe and Reflective Supervision Spaces

How To Be An Effective Supervisor

This training will help your supervisors to manage their interactions with team members in an appropriate, structured and psychologically safe way.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Support emotional resilience within your team.
  • Enhance communication skills.
  • Learn how to contain distress without absorbing it.
  • Build a culture of reflective practice in your firm.

Who would benefit:
Vital for senior solicitors and team leaders. Enhances retention, communication and harmony within teams and supports wellbeing strategies recommended by The Law Society and the SRA.

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Understanding Human Behaviour in Legal Contexts

The Psychology of Law

Gain a foundational knowledge in psychology to improve client engagement, strategic thinking, and team communication.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Develop awareness of psychological drivers behind behaviour and decisions.
  • Improve effectiveness in communications and negotiations.
  • Reduce conflict and increase your impact with others.

Who would benefit:
Each area of legal practice has its own unique psychology. This course is useful across all sectors, from litigation to property to employment law. Supports ethical, client-centred and psychologically aware practice.

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Empathic and Boundaried Practice in Emotive Work

Working Ethically in Pro Bono

This course helps pro bono practitioners lawyers protect themselves and their clients and work in ethical and effective trauma-informed ways.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Establish healthy boundaries while offering compassionate support.
  • Develop an understanding of the core conditions for working with clients ethically.
  • Learn techniques for maintaining wellbeing and maintaining clarity of role.

Who would benefit:
A must for anyone providing pro bono legal support. Ensures ethical excellence and emotional sustainability of this vital work.

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Global Delivery, Specialist Expertise

All trainings are available:

  • Online via live sessions
  • In-person at your firm (UK, EU, and global partners)
  • Customised workshops tailored to your legal practice area

Our trainers bring a unique blend of legal, psychological, and therapeutic expertise to every session.

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!

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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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