Let's talk about anxiety webinar
During Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 LawCare hosted a webinar with a panel of legal professionals who had personal experience of living with anxiety. Watch the recording or the webinar below.
Warning: this webinar contained potentially triggering content about anxiety, suicide and suicidal thoughts. Please watch with care.
Let's talk about anxiety webinar
During Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 LawCare, the legal mental health and wellbeing charity, hosted a webinar featuring a panel of legal professionals who had personal experience of living with anxiety.
We all know what it’s like to feel anxious from time to time. It’s a normal human response to feel tense, nervous and perhaps fearful at the thought of a stressful event or decision you’re facing. However, if your feelings of anxiety are very strong, or last for a long time, it can be overwhelming. You might find that you’re worrying all the time, perhaps about things that are a regular part of everyday life, or about things that aren’t likely to happen. You may regularly experience unpleasant physical and psychological effects of anxiety, and maybe panic attacks.
Our panel understood what it is like to live with anxiety and how it can affect (or be exacerbated by) the pressures of life in the law. The webinar was an opportunity for you to hear how anxiety affected them, and what strategies helped them to manage their symptoms.
Chair
- Lloyd Rees, Knowledge Lawyer (Brexit / Trade & Global Transactions) at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and LawCare champion.
Panel:
- Matt Verrell - Former lawyer, Executive coach, Wellbeing advocate, Transition Coach, Mentor and LawCare helpline volunteer and peer supporter.
- Katy Link - Associate / Medical Negligence Team Leader / Chartered Legal Executive at Minton Morrill Solicitors, part of the Fletchers Group and LawCare peer supporter
- Sonay Erten - Consultant Solicitor Advocate, Neurodiversity and mental health advocate, and peer supporter at LawCare
With an introduction and conclusion from Helen Whiteman, Chief Executive Officer at CIOT.
We're here to listen...without judgement