Services Available :: Mental Health & Law Collaboration

Mental Health professionals collaborating with the legal professionals is not a new concept and now it is catching on in our professional community. Oakland and Wayne counties have been collaborating together for several years now. Genesee county is beginning to see an emergence of this practice. Clients seeking legal help are not only dealing with their legal crisis but in addition they are often dealing with depression, anxiety, mental illness or they are seeking legal help because the partner or person they are litigating against has mental illness.

Attorneys play a vital role in helping their clients deal with the legal aspect of their case but often become overwhelmed with the additional needs of a patient exhibiting emotional problems and mental illness. Attorneys are often not trained to deal with the mental health issues of their clients beyond the legal aspects of their case. Therapists often have the same dilemma when it comes to their patients having legal problems in addition to their mental health issues. Combining legal with mental health makes sense to the professionals and the client/patients seeking help.

The Mental Health professional can also assist an attorney in mediation between two clients that are volatile, provide mental health counseling as an adjunct to legal counsel, building a case by helping them to see the psychological aspects, providing insight from a different perspective for the persons best interest, or in how to deal with the client more effectively and productively who is mentally ill or highly stressed. Merging the two professions can be away to build your practice into being more compassionate. Call 810-695-9558 for a consultation.