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Meet Our Therapists for Attorneys

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the constant pressure of legal work?

Do long hours, high expectations, and the weight of responsibility leave you exhausted or emotionally drained?

Have you found yourself battling perfectionism, or fearing mistakes that could have serious consequences?

You're not alone. Many attorneys struggle with burnout, anxiety, and depression—often in silence. Legal professionals experience higher rates of mental health concerns and substance use than the general population. Therapy can offer a confidential space to sort through these challenges, build resilience, and reconnect with what matters most to you—both in and out of the courtroom.

At Balanced Awakening, our therapists understand the unique pressures attorneys face and offer support that’s grounded in the realities of your profession. We work with you to create practical, effective strategies that fit your demanding schedule and help you feel more grounded, resilient, and in control.

Specialties

  • Burnout Recovery

    We help attorneys recover from emotional exhaustion and reconnect with a sense of purpose in their work and life.

  • Anxiety

    Therapy offers tools to manage constant worry, performance pressure, and the stress of high-stakes decision-making.

  • Depression

    We provide a supportive space to work through low mood, loss of motivation, and feelings of hopelessness.

  • Substance Use Concerns

    We support attorneys in developing healthier coping strategies and addressing problematic patterns around alcohol or other substances.

  • Perfectionism & Imposter Syndrome

    Therapy helps reduce self-criticism and fear of failure, while building confidence and self-trust.

  • Sleep Difficulties

    We work on calming the mind and restoring healthy sleep patterns disrupted by stress or overthinking.

  • Work-Life Imbalance

    Therapy can help you set boundaries, prioritize well-being, and build a more sustainable lifestyle outside of work.

  • Career Dissatisfaction or Identity Confusion

    We help attorneys explore questions about career direction, identity beyond the law, and what it means to feel fulfilled both professionally and personally.

Therapy for Attorneys and Legal Professionals

We’ve identified common experiences and themes attorneys often face—and how therapy can help.

Burnout and Emotional Exhaustion
Attorneys are known for pushing through long hours, high caseloads, and unrelenting deadlines—often at the cost of their own well-being. Many lawyers don’t recognize the extent of their burnout until it begins to affect their health, relationships, or performance. Therapy offers a structured space to pause, reflect, and recharge. Whether you’re on the brink or have been running on empty for years, therapy can help you reset, create boundaries, and reclaim a sense of balance.

Perfectionism and Fear of Failure
The legal field breeds perfectionism. From law school onward, the expectation to get it right—and the fear of getting it wrong—can feel paralyzing. Many attorneys carry deep anxiety about making mistakes, falling short, or not being “good enough,” especially in adversarial or high-stakes environments. Therapy helps unpack these patterns, reduce shame, and build a more sustainable sense of confidence rooted in self-compassion.

Who Are You Beyond the Law?
For many attorneys, the role becomes an identity. You may find yourself so consumed by the demands of your career that you’ve lost touch with what else brings you meaning. Therapy offers a space to explore the question: Who am I outside of this role? It’s a chance to reconnect with personal values, interests, and relationships that may have been pushed aside.

Moral Injury and Ethical Strain
You’ve likely experienced moments when the demands of the job conflicted with your values—whether navigating unjust outcomes, problematic firm culture, or the limits of what you’re allowed to say or do. Therapy can help attorneys process the anger, grief, or ethical tension that comes with these situations, and explore how to stay aligned with your integrity while working within (or beyond) a broken system.

Relationship Strain and Disconnection
The emotional toll of legal work doesn’t stop when you leave the office—if you even can. Long hours, stress, and the mental weight of your work can create distance in your personal relationships. Therapy can help you show up more fully for your family, friendships, and yourself. It's a place to improve communication, reconnect with what matters, and feel less alone in it all.

Somatic Therapy for Attorneys and Legal Professionals

In the legal field, you're trained to stay sharp under pressure, keep working through exhaustion, and advocate for others—often at the expense of your own well-being. But that constant “fight mode” can take a toll on your body and mind, leaving lasting effects even when the case is closed.

Somatic therapy, one of our specialties at Balanced Awakening, is a body-based approach that helps you regulate your nervous system, release stored stress, and feel more grounded—without needing to talk through every detail. It’s especially powerful for attorneys who carry invisible burdens every day, from chronic stress to moral tension and emotional strain.

Why Somatic Therapy?

Somatic therapy offers a powerful path to recovery for legal professionals:

  • Shift out of chronic fight-or-flight and into a steadier, calmer baseline. Somatic therapy helps reset your nervous system after years of high-stress work environments.

  • Heal burnout from the inside out. Burnout doesn’t just live in your thoughts—it lives in your body. Somatic therapy supports deep recovery and reconnection with your energy, clarity, and sense of self.

  • Process work-related trauma gently. Whether you’ve dealt with high-conflict cases, emotionally intense matters, or ethical strain, somatic therapy allows you to release the impact of those experiences in a safe, non-verbal way.

  • Recognize early signs of stress so you can stay present under pressure and bounce back faster after demanding days.

  • Reconnect with your body and emotions. Many attorneys are used to pushing through. Somatic therapy helps you slow down, feel again, and reclaim your own needs.

Who Somatic Therapy Helps in Law

Somatic therapy is ideal for:

  • Attorneys and legal professionals experiencing burnout or chronic stress

  • Litigators and trial lawyers navigating high-stakes environments

  • Lawyers managing the emotional toll of sensitive or traumatic cases

  • Legal professionals struggling with anxiety, exhaustion, or disconnection

  • Anyone in the legal field ready to feel more balanced, present, and alive

Art Therapy for Attorneys and Legal Professionals

“Why would I want art therapy?” If that’s your first thought, you’re not alone.

In law, you're trained to think critically, stay composed, and focus on facts—not feelings. But constantly pushing down emotion and staying in “logic mode” can take a toll, leaving you overwhelmed, disconnected, or numb. Art therapy offers a different kind of outlet—one that doesn’t rely on words or performance. You don’t need to be an artist. You just need space to step out of your head and reconnect with yourself.

Why Art Therapy?

Art therapy helps legal professionals access parts of themselves that often get shut down in a high-pressure profession:

  • When words aren’t enough, creative expression gives you access to feelings that can be hard to articulate—or even recognize.

  • It calms the nervous system, helping reduce anxiety, emotional tension, and stress carried in the body from years of pushing through.

  • It offers a safe way to process trauma—from difficult cases and moral strain to the emotional weight of holding space for others.

  • It reconnects you with who you are outside of work. Attorneys often lose touch with their own creativity, needs, and joy. Art therapy helps you rediscover those neglected parts of yourself.

  • It can reignite your sense of meaning and purpose. Through creative reflection, many attorneys reconnect with their "why"—the deeper reason they chose this path in the first place.

Who Art Therapy Helps in Law

Art therapy can be especially beneficial for:

  • Attorneys who feel emotionally shut down, stuck, or burned out

  • Legal professionals processing grief, trauma, or ethical strain

  • Lawyers who are ready for something different than traditional talk therapy

  • Anyone in the legal field seeking a creative, grounding, and nonjudgmental space to explore their inner world

Imago Relationship Therapy for Attorneys and Legal Professionals

Attorneys are trained to advocate, analyze, and persist—but those same skills can make personal relationships feel strained. Long hours, emotional fatigue, and the pressure to “keep it together” at work can leave little room for vulnerability, connection, or meaningful communication at home. Imago Relationship Therapy helps legal professionals reconnect—with their partners, loved ones, and themselves. It’s especially powerful for those who want to feel truly seen, heard, and understood in their relationships again.

Why Imago Works for Attorneys

When you spend your day arguing cases, managing conflict, or thinking strategically, it can be hard to shift gears into open-hearted connection. Imago helps you and your partner move from disconnection to closeness by understanding each other’s deeper emotional needs and inner worlds.

  • Struggling with communication? Imago’s structured dialogue technique creates a safe, non-defensive space for expression—so both partners feel heard without blame or shutdown.

  • Feeling the impact of chronic stress? Legal work often brings tension home. Imago helps couples understand how stress shows up in relationships—and how to repair emotional distance with empathy.

  • Repeating the same arguments or feeling misunderstood? Imago explores how early experiences shape current relationship patterns, so you can break out of old cycles with insight and compassion.

  • Hard to find time for connection? Imago provides dedicated space to nurture your relationship—even when one or both partners are emotionally depleted or constantly “on.”

Who Imago Helps:

  • Attorneys and legal professionals experiencing relationship stress or emotional distance

  • Couples in which one or both partners work in law and feel the strain of demanding careers

  • Partners of attorneys who want to feel seen, valued, and better understood

  • Anyone seeking to grow together in deeper, more conscious, and connected ways

Attorneys, we are here to support you.

If you’re not sure where to start, take a few minutes to complete our matchmaking form and we’ll connect you with a therapist who is a good fit for you.

Balanced Awakening Lakeview
4043 N Ravenswood Ave, Ste 301
Chicago, IL 60613
  
Balanced Awakening Andersonville
5215 N Ravenswood Ave, Ste 201 & 208
Chicago, IL 60640
  
Balanced Awakening Loop
25 E Washington St, Ste 1505
Chicago, IL 60602
  
Balanced Awakening Lincoln Park
561 W Diversey, Ste 205
Chicago, IL 60614
 

Therapy for Attorneys FAQs

  • Therapy for attorneys is a specialized form of support that addresses the unique emotional, cognitive, and relational challenges legal professionals face. It offers a confidential space to manage stress, prevent or recover from burnout, and work through issues like anxiety, perfectionism, substance use, or work-life imbalance. Because the legal field often rewards detachment and constant performance, therapy helps attorneys reconnect with themselves, improve their mental well-being, and strengthen their personal and professional relationships—all while respecting the demands of their career.

  • Therapy for attorneys can address a wide range of concerns, including burnout, chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and substance use—all of which are common in high-pressure legal environments. It can also help with perfectionism, imposter syndrome, sleep difficulties, and work-life imbalance. Many attorneys seek therapy to improve communication in their personal relationships, process the emotional toll of difficult cases, navigate career dissatisfaction, or explore their identity beyond the role of lawyer. Therapy provides a space to work through these challenges with support, clarity, and practical strategies tailored to the realities of legal work.

  • In the first two sessions, your therapist will ask you questions about your life currently, your history, and where you hope to be in the future. From there, you and your therapist will discuss goals that might specifically relate to your role as an attorney. Sessions can focus on whatever you’d like the most help with at the time.

  • Yes! But with some exceptions. There are 3 situations where, legally and ethically (whether we want to or not) we would have to break your confidentiality. These include if we learn of any potential child or elder abuse from you, we determine that you are at risk of harming yourself or someone else, or we receive a court order for your medical records. Also, some of our providers are under supervision and regularly consult with their supervisor about their client sessions. Supervisors have the same obligation to client confidentiality.

  • Our therapy rate for the first two sessions is $245. After that, 55 minute sessions are $220 Most of our providers accept BCBS PPO and Aetna insurance. We also offer a few reduced fee sessions available at $95 per 55 min session.

  • Yes! We offer virtual therapy sessions as well as in-person. Sometimes it’s easier for clients to engage in therapy virtually, especially when they are busy attorneys!

  • Therapy can help you as an attorney by providing a confidential, nonjudgmental space to manage the unique pressures of your profession. It can support you in coping with stress, reducing anxiety, preventing burnout, and addressing issues like perfectionism, imposter syndrome, or substance use. Therapy can also help you improve relationships, set healthier boundaries, and reconnect with your personal values and identity beyond your role as an attorney. By gaining insight, emotional resilience, and practical tools, you can feel more balanced, fulfilled, and in control—both professionally and personally.