Better with BarCARES. Enhance your practice. Enhance your life.

Welcome to BarCARES, an organization focused on improving the mental health and overall quality of life for lawyers and law students in North Carolina. We understand the legal profession can be intense in pace as well as workload, and may cause imbalances in your professional and personal life.

Our counseling services can assist you in managing a work/life balance that will enhance your overall enjoyment by removing unnecessary stress. We also provide career
counseling to determine whether your current position is the right fit for you. Satisfaction with your career will have an enormous impact on your life as well as those
around you and we are here to help you make the right choices.

Psychiatric counseling is also offered through our services to help members in our community succeed in their profession and life with challenging mental or emotional
afflictions.

We provide our services cost-free to members of participating bar groups in our state. All counseling is given with the upmost care and respect for confidentiality
you could expect from any other medical professional.

At times, life’s challenges can seem insurmountable. We at BarCARES seek to take the burden of these problems, big or small, professional or personal, and help you move forward with living life again to your highest potential.

Issues We Can Help With

• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – 

  Although frequently diagnosed in childhood, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) can be diagnosed at any age. The essential feature is a persistent pattern of…

• Chronic Pain – 

  Chronic Pain is a devastating illness that can strike anyone. In the last ten to fifteen years a quantum shift has occurred…

• Stress Management – 

  Each person has coping skills or ways of living with stress that are acquired over the years. These coping skills may include…

• Eating Disorders – 

  Eating disorders are real, treatable medical illnesses. They are not due to bad behavior or lack of will power. They involve serious…

• Parenting – 

  Being a parent is probably the most important job many of us will ever have. Yet many of us are minimally prepared…

• Substance Abuse – 

  Public health experts tell us that the use and misuse of alcohol and other drugs results in the single biggest health problem…

We offer consultation for many other issues. Please see our Issues page.