Triumph Steps® for Lawyers

CLE-Eligible Mental Fitness & Emotional Literacy

Triumph Steps® for Lawyers elevates your practice because it unites a Florida Bar–approved wellness/ethics CLE pathway, a 14-module, science-backed framework, and plug-and-play onboarding tools that turn compliance into culture. You’ll apply brain-based methods to regulate stress and sharpen judgment under pressure; use desk-ready breathing resets, cognitive reframing prompts, and visualization scripts before depositions, hearings, and negotiations; and embed a shared language of resilience across teams for ethical, sustainable performance. Add digital + printable packets, a completion certificate with an optional “Wellness in Practice” badge, and confidential coaching support, and your lawyers meet requirements, your firm retains talent, and your culture finally runs on clarity, composure, and results.

Why Lawyer Well-Being Can’t Wait

The practice of law is adversarial and high-stakes, conditions that can strain mental fitness and decision-making. Billable pressure, perfectionism, and client demands leave many attorneys anxious, fatigued, and at risk of burnout. The result is costly turnover, compromised ethics, and, far too often, silent suffering.

Triumph Steps® brings a systematic, consistent, and simple emotional-literacy framework to law, translating neuroscience and psychology into tools attorneys can use before a deposition, after a difficult hearing, or while managing demanding clients.

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Florida CLE

Over a three-year cycle, Florida Bar members must complete 33 hours of CLE; 5 hours must be in ethics, professionalism, substance abuse, mental health awareness, or bias elimination. This course helps satisfy those wellness/professionalism requirements.

CLE Course: Mental Fitness & Emotional Literacy for Lawyers

Overview

A Florida Bar–approved Continuing Legal Education experience that equips attorneys with practical, evidence-informed tools to manage stress, improve focus, and strengthen ethical judgment.

  • Credits: Florida Bar–approved for CLE and Mediation (CME) credit in wellness/professionalism categories.
  • Format: Available online or as an on-site lunch-and-learn.
  • Who Benefits: Florida attorneys seeking to meet wellness/ethics CLE or CME requirements; lawyers experiencing stress, anxiety, or early signs of burnout.

What You’ll Learn (Core Outcomes)

A Florida Bar–approved Continuing Legal Education experience that equips attorneys with practical, evidence-informed tools to manage stress, improve focus, and strengthen ethical judgment.

  • Rewire Stress Responses (Neuroplasticity): Reduce fight-or-flight activation and strengthen the prefrontal cortex for clarity and judgment.
  • Mind–Body Regulation: Quick breathing and attentional resets to stabilize the nervous system and lower stress hormones before high-stakes moments..
  • Interrupt Negative Loops: Cognitive reframing to shift rumination into focused, actionable thinking.
  • Confidence & Presence: Visualization and targeted affirmations that prime poise in depositions, negotiations, and court.
  • Purpose & Ethics: Practices that reconnect lawyers to meaning and service, foundations that support well-being and ethical decision-making.

Schedule your FREE consultation to confirm current credits and delivery options for your office.

Firm-Wide Solution: The Triumph Steps® Onboarding Packet

Turn “check-the-box” wellness into a durable culture. The Onboarding Packet signals from day one that your firm values resilience, clarity, and ethical wellness, right alongside legal excellence.

How It Works

  • Self-Paced Program (Digital + Printable): 14 concise modules tailored to the realities of legal practice, designed for quick application in daily work.
  • Shared Language, Shared Tools: Associates and partners learn practical routines (focus, reframing, micro-resets) that normalize conversations around mental fitness.
  • Wellness Toolkit on Every Desk:
    • Breathing resets for rapid calm
    • Wellness Toolkit on Every Desk:Cognitive reframing prompts to break negative spirals
    • Wellness Toolkit on Every Desk:Clarity cues to steady judgment under pressure
  • Recognition: Completion certificate and optional “Wellness in Practice” badge for internal recognition and recruiting.

Recognition: Completion certificate and optional “Wellness in Practice” badge for internal recognition and recruiting.

Why Firms Choose This

  • Built for Law, not generic wellness.
  • Clinically grounded by a psychotherapist with 30+ years of experience.
  • Proven with lawyers via CLEs, workshops, and retreats
  • Compliance + Culture: Meet requirements and reduce burnout risk
  • Retention ROI: Preventing even one associate departure can offset program cost many times over

Optional, Confidential Coaching

Some attorneys need a private, deeper container to apply the tools.

  • One-to-one coaching with Triumph Steps® clinicians
  • Available to associates, partners, and executives
  • Firms can pre-purchase session blocks or subsidize opt-in access
  • Provides a stigma-free safety net inside your culture of care

What Every Lawyer (or Team) Receives

  • Triumph Steps® Onboarding Packet (digital + printable)
  • 14 practical modules tied to common legal scenarios
  • Wellness toolkit (breathing resets, reframing exercises, clarity prompts)
  • Completion certificate and optional badge
  • CLE/CME wellness/ethics alignment for Florida attorneys

The Cost of Waiting

  • High stress and perfectionism erode performance and judgment
  • Hazardous coping (e.g., alcohol, stimulants) harms health and careers
  • Turnover and disengagement drain firms financially and culturally

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the course Florida Bar–approved?

Yes, approved for CLE and Mediation (CME) wellness/professionalism categories.

Both. Choose online or lunch-and-learn at your office.

Any Florida attorney seeking wellness/ethics CLE/CME hours, or any lawyer wanting practical tools for stress, clarity, and ethical decision-making.

No. It is education and coaching, not psychotherapy. Participants needing clinical care should be referred accordingly.

About the Instructor

Beatriz Martinez-Penalver is a licensed psychotherapist with 30 years in mental health and the creator of Triumph Steps®. She serves as President & CEO of Healthy Connections, Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) in Miami, founded in 2001 and staffed by a team of 25–30 professionals serving thousands of adults and children across conditions including anxiety, depression, substance use, bipolar disorders, and schizophrenia.

Beatriz has appeared on PBS, CBS, NBC, Univision, and Hay House Radio; she has been recognized by the School Board of Miami-Dade County for her commitment to emotional literacy and student well-being. Honors include 2019 Businesswoman of the Year (Outstanding Healthcare Professional) from the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce and 2018 “Floridana” by the Cuban Women’s Club.

Her mission is clear: happiness is a teachable skill, and emotional literacy belongs in every school, home, and law firm.

How to Get Started

For Individual Attorneys

  • Enroll in the CLE course (online or onsite)
  • Confirm the current credit total for your Bar cycle and enroll

For Firms

  • Request a custom proposal for the Onboarding Packet and coaching options
  • Schedule a FREE 30-minute consultation to plan rollout and measurement

Triumph Steps® helps build a firm where resilience, clarity, and ethical wellness are taught, modeled, and valued, so lawyers can thrive instead of burn-out.

Triumph Steps® provides skills-based education and coaching. It is not psychotherapy and does not diagnose or treat clinical conditions.

Beatriz Martinez-Penalver is a lecturer at TRTCLE. TRTCLE offers continuing legal education for lawyers nationwide.

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