The legal profession demands long hours, sharp thinking, and relentless pressure. For many attorneys, that can translate to burnout, anxiety, sleepless nights, and strained personal relationships. The Midtown Practice offers thoughtful, confidential therapy designed with the unique considerations of the legal profession in mind, so you can keep performing at a high level without losing yourself in the process.
Who we work with
We work with attorneys across every practice area and at every stage of their careers. Whether you’re in law school, navigating your first year at a firm, a seasoned partner, or entering retirement, we tailor treatment to your specific pressures and goals. We have experience working with:
- Big Law associates managing billable hour demands
- Partners balancing client work, business development, and team leadership
- In-house counsel navigating corporate dynamics and politics
- Public defenders, prosecutors, and government attorneys
- Solo practitioners and small firm owners
- Litigators carrying the weight of high-stakes cases
- Law students and recent graduates preparing for the bar
If you’re a lawyer searching for a therapist with particular knowledge of your career, we’re here for you.
Meet our NYC therapists for lawyers
Cliff Sobel
After decades leading an e-learning company and other ventures, I transitioned into mental health to help professionals like you navigate the pressures I once faced. I work with attorneys at every level: associates grinding through billable hours, partners managing teams, and in-house counsel weighing career moves. My approach is eclectic, drawing on psychodynamic, existential, and cognitive-behavioral methods. I also offer executive coaching for lawyers focused on advancement, work-life balance, and what success looks like for you.
- Offers therapy for lawyers ✓
- Credentials: Mental Health Counselor – Limited Permit
- Specialty Areas: Executive coaching, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, gray divorce, career transitions
Jane Ray
I’m a seasoned therapist with years of experience supporting clients with a wide range of mental health concerns across a variety of settings. While my approach to therapy is primarily rooted in active listening to make space for you to express yourself authentically, I’m also trained in specialized trauma therapy techniques like Cognitive Processing Therapy and EMDR to help lawyers process trauma, including the secondary trauma common in criminal, family, and immigration practice. As a third-degree black belt in Chinese Hawaiian Kenpo and an award-winning national competitor, I also bring a deep respect for disciplined practice.
- Offers therapy for lawyers ✓
- Credentials: Licensed Mental Health Counselor #011571
- Specialty Areas: Trauma, anxiety, depression, OCD, life transitions
Karen Franklin
With more than two decades in clinical practice and mental health leadership, I bring deep expertise and compassion to my work with attorneys facing demanding, often unrelenting careers. I integrate psychodynamic, DBT, CBT, and supportive approaches, helping clients understand the deeper patterns shaping their stress, perfectionism, and relationships. I’m also bilingual in Spanish and English and attentive to how cultural identity intersects with professional pressure. If you’re a lawyer who wants both insight and practical change in your life, we could be an excellent fit.
- Offers therapy for lawyers ✓
- Credentials: Licensed Clinical Social Worker #100938
- Specialty Areas: Depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, life transitions
Sana Khan
As a board-certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, I offer medication management for attorneys whose anxiety, depression, ADHD, or sleep struggles are getting in the way of their work and life. I trained in some of New York’s busiest psychiatric settings and now focus on outpatient care, building individualized plans that work alongside therapy. For lawyers carrying heavy caseloads, the right medication strategy—paired with the right team—can make all the difference in their well-being.
- Offers therapy for lawyers ✓
- Credentials: Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
- Specialty Areas: Psychopharmacology, anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, bipolar disorder
Jackie Siegal
Before becoming a therapist, I earned an MBA from NYU Stern and spent years in corporate America, so I know firsthand the pressures of office politics, partnership-track ambition, and the toll demanding careers take on personal life. I blend psychodynamic psychotherapy with a supportive cognitive-behavioral approach, and I bring a practical, sometimes humorous sensibility to the work. Lawyers who want a thoughtful collaborator who also understands the world they’re operating in often find a strong fit with me.
- Offers therapy for lawyers ✓
- Credentials: Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- Specialty Areas: Career challenges, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, couples therapy
Jared Sossin
I help attorneys build the internal resources needed to thrive in a demanding field. My work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Existential Therapy, and a decade of meditation and mindfulness practice, approaches that are well-suited to lawyers navigating cognitive overload and identity questions tied to their careers. I’m also trained in Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD, which can show up in legal practice as compulsive checking or perfectionism. My style is warm, evidence-based, and grounded in real life, which many lawyers find refreshing.
- Offers therapy for lawyers ✓
- Credentials: Mental Health Counselor – Limited Permit
- Specialty Areas: Anxiety, depression, OCD, mindfulness, career challenges, couples therapy
Holly Alderman
I work with both attorneys and the people they love. Long hours, weekend emergencies, and the emotional residue of legal work often spill into marriages, families, and friendships. Using a blend of methods including ACT, CBT, DBT, and Emotionally Focused Therapy, I help individuals and couples reconnect, communicate honestly, and renegotiate the roles strained by demanding careers. My approach is collaborative and strengths-based, and I tailor every session to the specific dynamic in front of me, whether one person or a whole family.
- Offers therapy for lawyers ✓
- Credentials: Licensed Clinical Social Worker #088473
- Specialty Areas: Couples therapy, family therapy, anxiety, depression, life transitions, parenting
How therapy can help attorneys
Manage stress & prevent burnout
The sustained pressure of your profession can take a measurable toll on the body and the mind. Therapy helps you identify the early signs of burnout, build sustainable coping strategies, and recover capacity that chronic stress erodes. While we can’t change the demands of your career, we can help you shift how you respond.
Address anxiety & perfectionism
Many of the traits that make you a great lawyer—precision, vigilance, anticipating worst-case scenarios—can also fuel anxiety and perfectionism that can eventually impact your well-being. We work with you to preserve your professional sharpness while loosening the grip of intrusive worry and harsh self-criticism.
Improve work-life balance & relationships
Demanding careers often leave you with little energy for yourself, let alone for partners, family, and friends. Therapy offers you the opportunity to examine how your work is shaping your closest relationships and what changes may restore connection. We also offer couples and family therapy when loved ones want to do the work together.
Process emotional toll & secondary trauma
Litigators, public defenders, prosecutors, and family and immigration attorneys can carry vicarious trauma from the cases they handle. Contentious cases and difficult clients can also trigger difficult memories from an attorney’s past. Therapy with a trauma-trained clinician offers structured, evidence-based support to process what you’ve absorbed so that the cumulative weight of the work doesn’t take over your personal life as well.
Common areas we support lawyers with
- Overwork, burnout, and work-life balance issues
- Partnership track anxiety and high-stakes career decisions
- Imposter syndrome, particularly among newer associates and lateral hires
- Sleep difficulties, chronic exhaustion, and physical symptoms of stress
- Strain on marriages, partnerships, and friendships from long hours
- Difficult opposing counsel, hostile clients, and adversarial professional dynamics
- Vicarious trauma from criminal, family, immigration, or litigation work
- Concerns about alcohol use or other coping habits common in the profession
Our process
1. Connect
Schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation with our highly trained Clinical Coordinator, Alli Malamut, by either:
- Call or text us at: 332-262-7077
- Email us at: info@midtownpractice.com
- Or complete the form below
2. Get matched
In order to find you an ideal fitting clinician or therapist, our Clinical Coordinator will want to learn more about you. Specifically, it would be helpful to hear about your concerns, personal preferences, and any relevant logistical matters (for example, in-person or video sessions? best time or day to meet?)
3. Check the fit
Connect with the clinician or therapist you are matched with to ask questions, share history, and make sure you feel comfortable about moving forward. If so, book your first session. If it does not feel right, circle back with us.
Schedule time to meet with your new clinician or therapist and work towards living a more fulfilling life! Over the years, we’ve found our thoughtful matching process is the surest way to find you an ideal clinician or therapist and achieve the best outcome for you.
FAQs about counseling for lawyers
Several of our clinicians have unique professional backgrounds before transitioning to clinical practice, including previous roles in business, corporate America, journalism, and executive leadership. This gives us a firsthand understanding of the realities of high-performance careers that many other therapists lack. We also offer therapy and psychiatric medication management under one roof, which simplifies care for busy professionals who value efficiency.
A clinician familiar with legal culture and the experience of being in a high-pressure, high-performing field does not need lengthy explanations of billable hours, partnership tracks, or how difficult it can be to show up in your personal life when work takes up a significant amount of your time and energy. That shared context lets us move faster into the work itself, so you can find relief sooner.
We take confidentiality seriously. Because we don’t accept insurance, your treatment isn’t documented in insurance company databases that can follow you across employers and policies. We can provide an invoice for out-of-network reimbursement if you choose to submit one, but the decision to share that information always rests with you.
Most of our attorney clients ask this. We offer evening sessions, virtual visits, and flexible scheduling so therapy can realistically fit into your calendar. The lawyers we work with consistently tell us that an hour a week often gives back more than it takes.
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