Lita Abella
Trauma-Informed Leadership for Professionals in High-Stressed Industries
Travels from Azusa CA, USA
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Speaks on:
Burnout Prevention
Trauma-informed Care
Speaks to:
Associations & Membership Orgs
Corporate Teams & Enterprises
Health & Wellness
Higher Education & Vocational
attorneys
Government & Public Sector
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Training
Panel
Breakout
Fireside Chat
Interview
Keynote
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Key Audience Outcomes
Participants gained a deeper understanding of mental health issues.
Attendees felt validated and less isolated in their experiences.
Lawyers felt encouraged to seek help or coach someone else.
Individuals were reminded of the importance of self-care and wellness.
Participants learned practical strategies for managing stress and burnout.
Lita's Bio
Lita Abella, JD, BCC, ACC is a nationally recognized speaker, executive coach, and consultant specializing in the mental health, resilience, and sustainability of high-stress professionals. She combines real-world experience with her personal stories. With decades of experience across legal, law enforcement, and health/wellness fields, she delivers powerful presentations that transform how organizations support employee wellness. Her engaging speaking style and expertise cover vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, substance use disorders, and burnout prevention for healthcare, education, public safety, legal, and corporate professionals. Drawing from her years in the public and private sectors, her presentations offer practical, evidence-based strategies that audiences can implement and help organizations create supportive cultures that reduce turnover and increase productivity. She is the author of The ABELLA Model: Leading High-Stress Professionals with Trauma-Informed Practices.
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Lita Offers the Following Talks
Flourishing Through Change: Trauma-Informed Practices for Emerging Legal Professionals
Adopt a trauma-informed lens to move from frustration to evidence-based empathy, leading to more effective client advocacy and reduced interpersonal friction.
Implement a personalized resilience toolkit to identify early warning signs of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue before they lead to professional burnout.
Bridge the gap between mental well-being and professional duty by recognizing how trauma impacts cognitive function and the ability to maintain the Duty of Competence.
Equip oneself with a framework to foster psychological safety and empowerment in the workplace, mitigating the high costs of turnover and improving talent retention.
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60 - 90 minutes
Thriving Through Change: Building Trauma-Informed Legal Practices
Understand how PTSD, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout can impact an attorney’s competence.
Identify why trauma-informed practices are essential for the practice of law.
Obtain an introduction into trauma-informed practices for legal professionals.
Know where to find resources in trauma-informed practices and mental health isues as it relates to the practice of law.
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60 - 90 minutes
Audience Feedback on Lita
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She is an incredible and inspiring coach. Her testimony is something that needs to be heard. We would benefit as a community to hear from a women who not only talks the talk, she also walks the walk.
Jacqueline Salazar
Mt. SAC Student, Parent Advocate Azusa Unified
It was useful to get up and stretch in the middle of my day, knowing that other people were also on the CLE, and good to have a friendly and informed person delivering information and instruction.
Anna
solo practice
It helped me understand mental health issues on a deeper level, especially for me as a future lawyer. It also reminded me of the steps I need to utilize to take care of myself
Belen Mercado
This session, showed me that it's ok if I can't always get things done right away, and I don't have to stress about it. As long as I know what I want I can do it.
Jennifer
The talk centered on often unspoken stresses of law practice particularly in certain specialties encouraging lawyers to seek help or coach someone else.
Deborah Sanders
It focuses on the importance of exercise and daily activity and provides simple, practical stretching exercises to offset long hours at your desk.
Pam Scholefield
Timely, relevant and full of ideas to address this important issue. I how to be able to engage with some of your future programs.
Grace Carter
Gave resources Talked about her life But didn’t give examples about how to balance being a parent, student, and worker.
Kaylynn
I liked the recognition of burn out and compassion fatigue. I’m an immigration lawyer and have both.
Frances Hayden