Details:

Attorneys and their colleagues frequently work with clients who have experienced trauma, and this exposure may cause vicarious trauma for the lawyer. We also bring our own experiences, which may include trauma, to our work. This presentation will help legal professionals recognize and address trauma in clients and themselves.

• Defining and recognizing the impact of exposure to trauma

• The window of tolerance and why it’s important

• Applying trauma informed care principles to legal services practice

• The role of vicarious resilience and post-traumatic growth

• Creating and maintaining a resilience toolbox

• Resources

Presenters:

Natalie Netzel is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Legal Education at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. She has extensive experience represent. Before attending law school, she earned M.S.E. in counseling. She is a passionate advocate of mutual care to support law student and attorney mental health and well-being.

Joan Bibelhausen has served as Executive Director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers since 2005. She is an attorney and received her JD from the University of Minnesota Law School. Joan is nationally recognized for her work in the lawyer assistance and diversity and inclusion realms and has significant additional training in counseling, mental health and addiction, diversity, employment issues, and management.

Joan has a passion for reducing the stigma about asking for and offering help to do our best work and live our best lives in the legal profession. She has spent her career working with legal professionals at a crossroads because of mental illness and addiction concerns, well-being, trauma, stress, and related issues, and has a particular interest in helping those with career challenges.