Trauma-Informed Lawyering
Our Services
Are you ready to elevate your legal practice while better serving your clients? By understanding trauma’s impact and aligning your practice with client-centered principles, you’ll build stronger trust, improve outcomes, and reduce re-traumatization. These skills don’t just support survivors. They enhance your reputation, reduce client attrition, and set your practice apart in a competitive legal landscape.
Client-Centered
We emphasize a client-centered approach that fosters trust and enhances outcomes for survivors of trauma.
Staff-Supported
Trauma doesn’t just affect our clients. It affects our staff as well. Our services provide the guidance and support your team needs to succeed.
"I hired Sarah Ford and her team for a training... I was surprised at how much my team was grateful that we did the training. I think they finally felt like someone understood what they go through with dealing with traumatized clients. I am so glad I invested in this and cannot recommend [the] Ford and Ford team enough."
Kat Thomas
Thomas Legal Counselors at Law LLC
New York, NY
"I have had the privilege of working with and learning from Sarah Ford for more than a decade. From collaborating on case strategy to preparing and executing training, Sarah has always been collaborative, inclusive, and effective. She has an amazing ability to identify a goal and then build the steps it takes to achieve that goal. At every step, she ensures that her clients, learners, and partners have a meaningful voice. On top of all of this, she inspires - I have witnessed her speak to law students and new lawyers and she always sparks a fire in them so that they know they have what it takes to make the world a better place!"
Meg Garvin
Executive Director of the National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI)
Clinical Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School
"Sarah and Rebekah worked seamlessly together to make a great experience. I look forward to using what I learned moving forward. Sarah and Rebekah were fantastic!"
Foundational Training Participant