Stress and mental health

Managing your workload

Breaking tasks down and knowing how to delegate can ease the stress and make it feel manageable:

• time management – how to plan your time productively
• stop saying yes and start saying no – how to assert yourself and say no
• how to leave work at the door – dealing with a work/life balance when working from home

Learning to manage stress

Emotional resilience is our ability to adapt to stressful situations or crises. Learn how you can build emotional resilience:

• workplace culture – understanding and managing microaggression – online classroom – explore microaggression and provide practical guidance to facilitate more inclusive working practices
• are you an emotionally resilient lawyer? Tips on how to develop your emotional resilience
• how not to be an emotionally resilient lawyer – understanding the behaviours that can undermine your emotional resilience
• emotional resilience: Stepping outside the drama triangle – rescuer, persecutor, victim: understanding negative roles we can fall into at work
• escaping low self-esteem – explains the relationship between self-esteem and emotional resilience
• how to deal with angry clients – understanding why a client may be angry, and tips on how to handle them
• Fit for Law - a free online course from LawCare in collaboration with the Open University, focusing on emotional competence and professional resilience

Improving your wellbeing

Practical tips to help you manage day-to-day stress:

• five ways to boost your productivity that are backed by science – proven workplace wellness techniques
• processing your feelings: three options
• how to remain resilient in tough times – straightforward advice you can take up immediately
• we need to open up to each other to save lives – signs to look out for in yourself and colleagues

There are also things your firm can do to support employees with stress.

Learn how to support resilience and wellbeing in the workplace.

Support organisations

LawCare

Contact LawCare for free, independent and confidential emotional support for anyone in the legal community, including solicitors, support staff and concerned family members.

Call: 0800 279 6888

Email: support@lawcare.org.uk

Online chat: www.lawcare.org.uk

Law Society helpline

Call our pastoral care helpline on 020 7320 5795 if you're experiencing personal, financial, professional or employment difficulties.

We'll put you in touch with someone who can help.

Open from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Mind

Contact Mind for support and advice on stress and wellbeing.

Call: 0300 123 3393

Text: 86463

Learn more about call charges

Email: info@mind.org.uk 

Open from Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm.

Samaritans – Wellbeing in the Workplace

Samaritans’ Wellbeing in the Workplace programme helps you to get skills to manage your emotional health and learn how to look out for others, before they reach crisis point.

The Solicitors’ Charity

The Solicitors’ Charity has been supporting solicitors in crisis since 1858.

When times are hard, it provides financial, emotional and practical support to help people take back control.

Those in the legal profession can raise awareness of the Solicitor’s Charity by:

• volunteering
• fundraising, or
• telling a friend about what the charity does and how it can help those in times of need or crisis

Find out how to raise awareness

Discover more about the Solicitors’ Charity.

Email: hello@thesolicitorscharity.org