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The Capacity Check™
Five minutes to find what's binding your capacity first — and a sensible starting place.
Executive Frame™ · Family law
EF|Law — Family
Psychology for family law
under pressure.
A practical programme for family lawyers working with conflict, complexity, urgency, and human distress. Delivered jointly by a clinical psychologist and senior family barrister.
The model
The C³ Loop™
The repeating cycle — Centre, Clarify, Choose, then return. The architecture under the work.
The mapThe Tunnel™
The predictable way capacity narrows under pressure — named early, so you can exit it deliberately.
The resetS.H.I.F.T.™
Stop · Hold · Focus · Take Action. The real-time reset for the hard moment — under a minute, anywhere.
The S.H.I.F.T.™ reset
Four steps, for the hard moments.
A practical reset for the moments family law delivers without warning — the difficult interaction, the distressing disclosure, open conflict, sudden urgency, or a personal trigger. It takes under a minute, and it works in the room.
Stop
Interrupt the reaction before it takes over.
Hold
One slow breath. Let your body settle enough to think.
Focus
Return to the facts — what is real, and what is within your control.
Take Action
One deliberate next step, chosen rather than driven.
Co-facilitation
Clinical psychology and senior family law experience.
Every module is delivered jointly, so the psychology never floats free of the realities of contemporary family-law practice — and the practice advice never loses its clinical foundation.
Clinical lead
Dr Sarah Anticich
Clinical and Industrial/Organisational Psychologist. Developer of the Executive Frame™ and clinical architect of EF|Law — Family.
Legal lead
Richard Smith
Senior barrister, Montrose Chambers, Christchurch, specialising in family law. Co-designer and legal lead, bringing the lived specificity of current practice.
Ways to work with EF|Law — Family · Start free
Start with a useful move.
Free, practical tools for understanding what is happening and choosing a first next step.
Free
S.H.I.F.T.™ quick-use guide
The four-step reset you can run in under a minute, wherever you are.
Free
Phase worksheets
A fillable worksheet for each phase of the loop — Centre, Clarify, Choose.
Free
What is the Executive Frame™? — for family lawyers
A one-page introduction to the framework, written for family-law practitioners.
Free
Family Law Reflective Journal
A regulated reflective practice, kept across a career — practice entries for before, and through, a matter.
Free
Reflective Practice Handout
A private clinical tool for the minutes before and after a demanding encounter — C³ Loop™ and S.H.I.F.T.™ on one page.
Free
The Pot & Gas Worksheet
A simple weekly stress monitor — what turns the heat up, and what lets the steam out.
Free
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