Stress and mental health
If you need urgent help, contact Samaritans.
Free helpline: 116 123 (24 hours a day, 365 days a year).
Read NHS guidance on dealing with a mental health crisis.
Managing your workload
It’s easy to feel daunted by a heavy 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
- 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 exploring microaggression and providing practical guidance to facilitate more inclusive working practices
- are you an emotionally resilient lawyer? – tips on how to develop your emotional resilience
- emotional resilience: stepping outside the drama triangle – rescuer, persecutor, victim: understanding negative roles we can fall into at work
- 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
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
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.
Find out more
Dealing with the stresses of examinations
This interactive free online classroom and Q&A is aimed at solicitors and aspiring solicitors experiencing the stresses of examinations.
This online classroom discusses the stress triggers associated with examinations and explore tools for self-management techniques to ease the associated stresses.
Wellbeing for ambitious lawyers – setting yourself up for sustainable success, not burnout
This interactive free online classroom and Q&A is aimed at newly qualified solicitors.
Practical tools will be shared to help you deal with the stresses that can come with the legal profession, helping you maintain a healthy work-life balance and reduce work-related stress.
Wellbeing for ambitious lawyers – energy protection as a high-performance habit
This interactive free online classroom and Q&A is aimed at newly qualified solicitors.
You will get practical tools to help you manage physical, mental and emotional energy to sustain high performance in the workplace without the risk of burnout.
Mental health awareness training for managers/leaders
This on-demand masterclass is based on the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) workplace culture guidelines for managers and leaders.
It focuses on empowering you to effectively support the wellbeing and performance of your colleagues, as well as promoting your personal effectiveness and resilience.
SRA workplace culture guidance
This on-demand masterclass summarises key recommendations and guidance in the SRA workplace culture review.
It translates many of the SRA recommendations into practical frameworks to facilitate greater risk management and more effective working practices and systems.