In her three decades as a trial lawyer in service to over a thousand clients, Debra Fortenberry is a highly regarded advocate and trusted advisor to businesses, nonprofits, families, and individuals.  She attributes her success to skills and practices that expand her capacity to listen deeply during difficult exchanges and communicate in ways that stay true to a path through and beyond conflict.  The medical community’s growing understanding that intentional connectedness with the right hemisphere of the brain may support beneficial and ethical conduct, as discussed by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor in her book Whole Brain Living, informs Debra’s approach to lawyer wellbeing.

Debra offers experiential trainings that steward lawyers and law students into skills and strategies that will support their wellbeing and alignment with their beneficial intentions. Her work with Wellness Matters Consulting P.B.C. contributes to a legal system anchored in meaningful relationship and honorable purpose.

Over the past 20 years as a Psychologist, Sandra has discovered that having the life you want starts with embodying the right knowledge and skills. Sandra began her career as a Navy Psychologist and consultant to the Marine Corps’ 1st Special Forces Group. It was during her first year in the Navy that Sandra was tasked with teaching stress management to the medical staff. After doing much research, she presented on stress management and was asked to do so several times afterwards. Realizing how little the medical staff understood stress and its effects on health and happiness, Sandra began facilitating groups for her active-duty patients on stress management as well. After serving her country, Sandra worked as a Behavioral Medicine Specialist and Hospital Psychologist for Kaiser Permanente while remaining on inactive duty for seven more years. She is a co-creator of the Wellness Matters Consulting programs, author, speaker and experienced consultant on organizational wellness.