Quality Work by an Individual Professional Cannot be Sustained Alone

Quality work by an individual professional cannot be sustained alone.

If you work in the law, you work in a helping profession.

'Often we see competent workers reduced to having severe doubts about themselves and their abilities to function in their work through absorbing distress and disturbance from clients. - When we help others we enter a relationship different from the normal and everyday.

There are times when it seems barely worthwhile, perhaps when the client seems ungrateful, or because we feel drained and have seemingly nothing left to give. In times of stress is is sometimes easy to keep ones head down, to get on with it and not take time to reflect.

At times like this supervision can be very important. It can give us the chance to stand back and reflect, a chance to engage in the search for new options, to discover the learning that often emerges from the most difficult situations, to seek support.'

Take the first step ✅ DM or email deirdre.eaglesupervision@gmail.com ✅

There are many stressors in law: heavy workloads, administrative and financial pressures, public accountability, client accountability (including direct customer/ client, employer, or the wider landscape of the law), limited resources, billable hours, the risk of complaint and reporting. The adrenaline hit can be exciting and fulfilling but the juggling act can be exhausting, confusing, fraught with danger and can lead to a lawyer feeling alone and anxious at the very least. It is well documented that lawyers suffer from higher levels of distress, depression, and anxiety than the general population.🤯

Deirdre May, originally from Scotland, is an admitted and practising solicitor in rural NSW, Australia of nearly 20 years She is also a trained professional supervisor for lawyers of all ages, stages, and practice areas. - Your ability to participate in supervision is not confined by geography with the options of online or telephone supervision as well as face to face supervision. - Take the first step ✅ DM or email deirdre.eaglesupervision@gmail.com ✅ - source - Supervision in the Helping Professions, P Hawkins & R Shohet, 4th Ed, Open University Press, 2012