15 July 2025 • 1 minute read

The resilient lawyer: vicarious trauma and how to manage it

Facilitator: Dr Judith Mohring

15 July 2025, 9:00 – 10:00 BST

For a range of reasons lawyers are more at risk of mental health problems than other professionals, one area of emerging interest is psychological trauma in the profession. The nature of legal work can make exposure to traumatic events more likely- the material lawyers work with can be distressing. And the more we care about our work the more likely we are to experience vicarious trauma: empathic and compasssionate lawyers can find themselves struggling with the content of their work. But there are tools and approaches which can help.

This workshop covers common psychological responses to emotionally difficult legal work. The webinar will cover:

An introduction to vicarious trauma in the legal profession;
Why it happens and what it is; and
Tools to recognise and manage compassion fatigue, burn-out and low mood with lifestyle psychiatry approaches and therapy skills.

This session is run as part of our What In-house lawyers Need (WIN) programme, part of the 2025 webinar programme – download the programme to register for other webinars like this.

Speaker

Dr Judith Mohring

Dr Judith Mohring is Managing Director of The Natural Psychiatrist, a boutique leadership and wellbeing consultancy in London. She enjoyed a distinguished career as a consultant psychiatrist in private practice before founding her firm to focus on education and coaching, enhancing business productivity and performance. She is an expert trainer for the UK Adult ADHD Network, on the advisory board of The Centre for Neurodiversity at work and a visiting lecturer in organisational psychiatry at King's College London.