For Attorneys: A Clinical Voice for Your Clients
Referring a client to therapy is more than a strategic or compassionate act—it reflects who you are and your commitment to advocacy.
Clients navigating legal challenges often face emotional trauma that can impair their judgment, affect decision-making and even lead to self-sabotage.
At Tip The Scales Counseling, we specialize in working with individuals in crisis, conflict, or court-related circumstances. Our goal is to support emotional regulation, insight, and healing—so your client is better equipped to engage meaningfully in the legal process.
If you have a client who may benefit from this level of support, I welcome the opportunity to collaborate and help tip the scales in their favor.
Have your client call or text me at 786.920.6060 for a free consultation.
Testimonials
“James, thank you so much for your compassionate care, strong guidance and always being there for me. Thank you for being a source of sanity and support. I'm getting better every day, week and month. Thank you for your powerful presence.” H.P.
“Dear James, I thank you so much for passing your knowledge onto me to help me in my struggle. I so appreciate your encouragement and kind heart to see me pro bono. That shows me you care. I am deeply grateful.” Jas.
Why Tip The Scales?
Tip The Scales Counseling knows how to work with trauma.
For over three years I worked with convicted felons in the Collier County Adult Felony Drug Court Program as a Clinician with the David Lawrence Centers. You can find me on YouTube.
With Naples being Naples—and bills being bills—I worked nearly every Saturday and Sunday as the only therapist in a psychiatric hospital during the early days of COVID.
Being in these two environments forced me to grow as a therapist and begin a intensive journey to build and refine trauma therapy techniques.
Collectively, these were the most impactful experiences of my life, not only as a trauma therapist, but as a man who could offer another voice regardless of whether my client was in jail, a hospital, treatment center, or simply trying to make it one more day.
Have your client call of text me at 786.920.6060 for a free consultation.
Therapeutic Approaches
The goal of therapy is to come to a deeper sense of resolution and closure. Integrating six evidence-based approaches tailored to each client’s need is how we get there.
-
DBT is a structured, skills-based approach that helps clients manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and build distress tolerance. It combines mindfulness, cognitive strategies, and behavioral techniques to create lasting emotional regulation and resilience.
-
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps the brain reprocess distressing memories so they no longer feel triggering or overwhelming. It’s especially effective for trauma, anxiety, and negative self-beliefs, allowing clients to experience relief without having to retell every detail of their story.
-
EMI is a neurotherapeutic technique that helps the brain resolve emotional trauma by guiding the eyes through specific patterns that access deep, often non-verbal memory networks. This gentle, non-invasive approach allows clients to process unresolved experiences without needing to relive the details, often resulting in lasting emotional relief.
-
Item description
-
Item description
-
Item description
-
LSR is a structured, client-centered approach that helps individuals uncover and resolve the underlying sources of chronic stress, anxiety, or emotional reactivity. Through guided exploration and emotional processing, clients experience relief from persistent mental and emotional burdens.
-
MRT is a cognitive-behavioral program designed to promote moral reasoning, accountability, and long-term behavioral change. It’s especially effective for clients with legal, behavioral, or addiction issues, helping them build insight, responsibility, and a stronger internal value system.
-
TIR is a highly focused method that allows clients to process past traumatic events in a safe, structured way until emotional charge is fully released. It helps reduce symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, and depression by resolving the emotional weight of specific incidents—without interpretation or judgment.
Therapist Outputs for Attorneys
Tip the Scales Counseling provides structured, clinically-informed reports that summarize a client’s engagement in therapy after a valid Release of Information (ROI) is executed.
Sensitive therapeutic content is never disclosed. The goal is to provide clear, objective support for your case while maintaining client confidentiality and preserving the integrity of the therapeutic relationship. A list of outputs is described below.
Please review our Disclaimer.
-
A concise, neutral overview of the client's therapeutic engagement without breaching confidentiality. No details nor diagnoses will be shared. Description text goes here
-
A summary of the initial assessment, including observations of emotional and psychological functioning across multiple systems e.g. family, work, social, school etc.
-
Clear, measurable goals tied to therapy and how they relate to the client’s progress (e.g., reducing symptoms of trauma, improving emotional regulation).
-
Documentation of attendance, participation level, and general attitude toward therapy, showing consistency or lack thereof.
-
Specific, non-sensitive data on whether the client is improving, plateauing, or regressing, as it pertains to overall mental or emotional functioning.
-
Describing how trauma, emotional distress, or mental health symptoms are currently affecting the client’s functioning (e.g., work, family, decision-making) as reported by client.
-
Supporting the client's efforts in treatment and outlining emotional/behavioral improvements that may contribute to a positive legal outcome.
-
Suggestions for additional care such as detox, residential treatment and/or integrated mental health.