Mental health professional

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And, uh, um, and I suppose one of the things I didn't say about myself is that I am, of course, I'm a social worker, um, but I'm also an approved mental health professional.

Um, a- and so, um, you know, a lot of my work in the last 20 years have, have been really about making decisions about people, uh, or, or citizens, um, who need compulsory detention, uh, under the Mental Health Act.

And one of my sort of underlying concerns has been around the sort of over-representation of, um, African and Caribbean people in, in, in sort of local mental health services and some of that ongoing inequalities and how to really, uh, you know, address that.

And our guests are Elizabeth Eckert.

She is the director of the Lawyer Assistance Program of the Bar Association of Nassau County, and she's a mental health professional.

And also with us today is Christina Dumitrescu, and she is an attorney and also a mental health professional, so she knows what it's like to be on the inside of the legal profession.

And we're going to talk for lawyers, their clients, their firms, and their families.

how they can find support and avoid too much stress as they're navigating the challenges of handling a legal matter.

Right.

I just want to remind our listeners that you're listening to Law You Should Know here on 90.3 WHPC, the voice of Nassau Community College.

We're talking with Beth Eckhart, and she is the director of the Lawyer Assistant Program of the Bar Association of Nassau County, and Christina Dumitrescu, and she is a lawyer and also a mental health professional.

You know, I wanted to talk to you today, though, about starting this new year out right and in the right proper frame of mind.

Our guest is a mental health professional, and he's going to talk about some of the resolutions that we all dare to set out there for ourselves and steady show.

About 80% of us, we fail on our resolution.

We give up on it by mid-February, unfortunately, whether it's losing weight or getting in better shape or getting our finances in order, all kinds of things that we set out there to do.

And, you know, it looks like, you know, I'm going to try to really solidify that again for the first time in a while.

It looks like our guest is just joining in now.

And Daniel, if we got our mental health professional ready to join us, come on in and join the show.

Hey, there's Alex.

And she works with lawyers and law students to help them preserve and get to a better place with their mental health.

And also with us is Christina Dumitrescu, and she is a mental health professional, and she's also an attorney.

And she provides counseling and support services to lawyers and law students to help them meet the challenges of practicing law.

Beth and Christina, we want to help lawyers and clients and their firms and families out there to let them know that they're not alone.

But I'd like to remind our listeners, we're talking about reducing stress for lawyers and clients.

Our guests are Beth Eckhart, and she's a director of the Lawyer Assistance Program at the Bar Association of Nashville County.

And Kostrina Dumitrescu, who's both a lawyer and a mental health professional.

and working also to promote lawyer wellness and try to help lawyers who are feeling stressed.