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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Schedule your FREE consultation to confirm current credits and delivery options for your office.
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.
Recognition: Completion certificate and optional “Wellness in Practice” badge for internal recognition and recruiting.
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.
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. She is proud to serve as faculty with TRTCLE, a national Continuing Legal Education provider accredited across multiple states. She has presented programs such as “Ethical Wellness is Professional Wellness: Ethics, Mental Health, and Life Fulfillment in the Legal Profession” and “Ethics, Suicide, and Wellness in the Legal Field.” Through these CLE-approved presentations, she integrates neuroscience, psychology, and practical well-being tools to help attorneys strengthen resilience, elevate ethical awareness, and achieve greater personal and professional fulfillment.
Her mission is clear: happiness is a teachable skill, and emotional literacy belongs in every school, home, and law firm.
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.
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