Valerie Charbit reflects on Mental Health Awareness Week

For Mental Health Awareness Week, Valerie Charbit, Director of Wellbeing at RLC, reflects on how theatre can illuminate the often unseen emotional load of demanding professional lives.

She explores why recognising vicarious trauma and prioritising wellbeing are essential in high-pressure legal work as well as recognising the importance of relying on others for help when managing a demanding career.

Drawing on the theatre show “Inter Alia” ( among other things), Valerie considers the overlap between work, family, responsibility and mental health in a deeply personal, lived way.