Vicarious Trauma vs Vicarious Resilience

Vicarious trauma is caused by continuous, indirect exposure to trauma through another person’s firsthand account or narrative. Trauma may be experienced by a lawyer in many different types of legal work, e.g. immigration law, family law, personal injury law, criminal law.

I fully understand that, in these turbulent times and in your turbulent work environment, one day work stress will catch up with you. Not always it is possible to cut down on your workload, see fewer clients or change jobs. What could you do to deal with this stress? The answer is short: improve your resilience.

I have a few questions for you

❓Are you a professional in the legal industry who is affected by the traumatic events that your clients have experienced?

❓Have you noticed that you are becoming increasingly stressed, burnt out, or anxious?

❓Are you feeling drained, irritable or distant?

❓Perhaps seeking solace in alcohol, food or other substances to deal with the workload and emotional stress?

From Vicarious Trauma to Vicarious Resilience

This free 30 minute webinar might help you understand what’s behind these issues. Not only that, I will give you some practical tips to ease your mind. Let’s move from Vicarious Trauma to Vicarious Resilience.

About the webinar

Hearing or reading awfully painful client’s stories can lead to indirect or secondary (vicarious) trauma. It’s not your trauma, but it affects you severely, and might lead to PTSS.

Why would you be affected?

People who have had a traumatic childhood or whose parents were traumatised by certain events, may be more prone to vicarious trauma.

Tools

As a hypnotherapist/hypnotist and therapeutic coach I regularly hear my client’s stories and it I wouldn’t be human if these stories didn’t affect me.

Luckily I have a support system (fellow therapists) and tools to deal with these stories. Tools that were taught to me, tools that I have sharpened over the years.

Tools that are not taught to legal professionals. In general, the focus is on helping as many clients as possible, leaving little time to process everything. Let alone the lack of protocols in place or the safety to express any worries.

Up close, I have witnessed friends and family members taking their work stress home with them. They were either short-tempered, drank too much, relationships suffered, and more.

Details

If the above rings a bell, join me:

🗓️ 16th of April

🕰️ 20h CET, 19h GMT, 2pm EST, 11am PST

🌐 https://meet.google.com/pgr-ofsn-ibo

About me:

I am a certified hypnotherapist/hypnotist, trained coach, and have a Bachelor in Business Administration (management, economics and law).

My focus is on stress management, preventing burnout, personal leadership and establishing healthy relationships, especially the one you have with yourself.

I have chosen this niche as I always have had a soft spot for the overlooked. People might think: awww seriously, #lawyers and #paralegals? They have the means to seek help.

That might be true, but I also know the opposite is true: they are not used to seeking help, thinking that they need to figure it out themselves, believing they have to be strong.

Key words

Vicarious Trauma | Secondary Trauma | Indirect Trauma | Legal Professionals | Lawyers | Paralegals | Immigration Law | Criminal Law | Family Law | Burnout | Compassion Fatigue |

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