Your clients are paying $400+/hour for legal strategy they can't retain.
Motion to Rise™ fills the gap between trauma care and legal strategy so your clients show up regulated, prepared, and aligned with your case plan.
Why Support Matters in
High-Conflict Cases:
High-conflict divorce cases don’t just strain clients
they strain entire legal teams.
Research from the ABA, Jaffe, Bala & Fidler, and family law burnout studies show:
High-conflict clients generate significant non-billable crisis work
Trauma responses impair credibility in mediation, depositions, and testimony
These cases increase attorney burnout and compassion fatigue
Client dysregulation elevates bar complaint risk
High-conflict cases are the most resource-intensive and emotionally taxing in family law
You’re asked to be:
-lawyer
-counselor
-interpreter
-crisis manager
-emotional stabilizer
And you were trained to practice law, not trauma physiology.
Motion to Rise exists to bridge that gap.
What your clients get inside Year One™
Nervous System Stabilization:
Clients learn why they can't think straight under chronic stress, and get practical tools to regulate before appointments, depositions, and court appearances.
Understanding High-Conflict Patterns: Clients learn to recognize coercive control, DARVO, and litigation-abuse tactics so they stop being alarmed and start being strategic.
Communication & Documentation: Coaching Clients learn what to document, how to organize it, and how to communicate in writing as if a judge is reading every word, because one might be in the future.
Mediation & Court Preparation:
Clients gain tools to show up composed, coherent, and credible under stress. They learn how to avoid taking the bait when he puts on an act.
Guest Expert Sessions:
Each cohort includes a session with a family law attorney and a CDFA, so clients understand the legal and financial landscape from qualified professionals.
Why Firms Partner With Us:
✔ Time saved
Fewer crisis communications, spirals, and emergencies.
✔ Improved Client Credibility
Trauma-informed stabilization enhances performance in mediation and court.
✔ Reduced Burnout
Attorneys remain attorneys, not emotional responders.
✔ Stronger Case Outcomes
Stabilized clients are easier to present and represent.
✔ Lower Risk Exposure
Regulated clients are less likely to escalate, self-sabotage, or file bar complaints.
✔ Cleaner Evidence & Timelines
Clients learn how to present information in a usable format — reducing hours of sorting through screenshots, long emails, or irrelevant content.
✔ Improved Client Follow-Through
Stabilized clients are more likely to comply with legal instructions, deadlines, parenting recommendations, and documentation requests.
✔ Better Alignment Between Client+Legal Strategy
When clients understand high-conflict patterns, they stop making reactive choices that undermine their attorney's strategy.
How to refer a client:
The most direct way to support a high-conflict client is to refer them into Year One™—a 10-week structured group coaching program that runs alongside their legal case.
If you'd like to discuss an ongoing referral relationship, a firm training, or a specific client situation, please contact Stacy.
Your legal team works best when your clients are regulated, prepared, and supported.
Who's leading
Year One™
Stacy Bednar is a licensed professional clinical counselor (MA, LPCC) with 19+ years of clinical experience and founder of Motion to Rise™.
She is also a survivor of high-conflict separation, high-conflict divorce, and separation abuse.
She has navigated the hostile texts, the weaponized custody exchanges, the nervous system collapse, the financial anxiety, 6.5 years of court processes in Family Court (the Court of Appeals-twice, Arbitration, Prenup law, Emergency (Ex Parte) hearings, contempt hearings, two decree versions, and received full legal and physical custody all while showing up as a credible, composed parent while the legal process ran its course.
Through it all, she has come out stronger, with an intense drive to help others do the same.
She built Year One™ because she needed it and it didn't exist.
Stacy Bednar, MA, LPCC—Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor | High-Conflict Coach
16+ years clinical practice
Specialized training in trauma, anxiety, nervous system regulation, coercive control, narcissistic personalities and abuse, and high-conflict dynamics
Founder: Motion to Rise™ and Therapy Outfitters, Inc.
Wayzata, MN
Year One™ is a coaching and psychoeducation program. It is not therapy and does not create a therapist-client relationship. Participants are encouraged to work with a licensed therapist alongside the program.
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