Supervision for Lawyers

We provide therapeutic supervision for lawyers (otherwise known as reflective practice).

This is particularly useful for those working in more emotive areas of law, such as family and private client law.

What is therapeutic supervision?

It is support from a therapist to discuss difficulties and dynamics that come up in your work. Your supervisor can help you make sense of such situations, take care of yourself better and, where appropriate, help you to make adjustments to the way you practice.

What will we talk about in supervision?

Often it takes the form of discussing common dynamics that we fall into with our clients. These tend to include:

  • excessive ‘rescuing’, dependency issues
  • hostile and aggressive clients
  • clients who are resistant to our advice
  • and our habitual responses to the above.

We can reflect with you on the above issues and other stressors in the job, both internal and external. This helps to reduce the pressure on you and helps you to make changes where needed.

 How will it help me?

Supervision helps lawyers in the following ways:

  • Alleviates stress and tension
  • Increases the sense of team cohesion and aids team communication and understanding
  • Increases a sense of wellbeing, both on an individual and a team level
  • Improves productivity and the firm’s retention of lawyers
  • Helps lawyers to rediscover a sense of meaning in their work

Is it 1-1 or in groups? And how often do lawyers have supervision? 

We deliver supervision either 1-1 or in groups.

Group supervision can be helpful for teams as a whole or by dividing teams up into groups, according to seniority and PQE.

The regularity of supervision is flexible but we recommend having it on a fortnightly or monthly basis.

Why TCC?

We offer supervision with either Tim Rice or Annmarie Carvalho.

Tim is an individual and couples counsellor and an experienced family law supervisor.

Annmarie  is a supervisor and counsellor for individuals. She is also a trainer and non-practising lawyer and family mediator.

Annmarie and Tim provide individual supervision while Annmarie also provides group supervision.

To discuss how supervision could help you/your team, book an appointment here:

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