Carol P. Waldhauser

Carol P. Waldhauser is the executive director for The Delaware Lawyers Assistance Program (DE-LAP) in Wilmington, Del., which offers confidential assistance to judges and lawyers to help them identify and address problems such as depression, stress, substance abuse/dependence, gambling addiction and other illnesses and to assist them in developing effective solutions to enhance both their quality of life and work. She previously spent more than eight years in professional employee assistance as assistant (deputy) director of the Maryland State Bar Association’s Lawyer Assistance Program, where she assisted hundreds of individuals in Maryland’s legal community focusing on substance abuse/dependence, stress management and employee assistance programs (EAPs). As anInternational Certified Employee Assistance Professional and Certified Wellness Inventory Coach,Ms. Waldhauser is trained and/or certified in mediation and conflict resolution, divorce mediation skills, grief counseling, substance abuse professional/federal DOT regulations for substance abuse professionals; wellness inventory facilitator and coach; and suicide prevention and crisis intervention (trained in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing by Jeffrey Mitchell, the developer of the process).She also received executive certification from the University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College ofBusiness for Nonprofit Fund Development and Grant Writing. Ms. Waldhauser has more than 20years of law office experience in the small firm/solo environment. She has written many articles that have been published in legal journals throughout the country, speaks to the judiciary and attorneys on problems and solutions regarding quality of life in the legal profession and lawyers’ assistance programs specifically, and is executive producer of the DE-LAP podcast Attorney Buoyancy. Ms.Waldhauser received her B.S. in pre-law and business from Stevenson University and did extensive graduate work in public policy, law, organizational counseling/employee assistance, substance abuse and addiction at the University of Baltimore’s School of Business and Law, as well as The Johns Hopkins University. She also received certification status from the University of MarylandSchool of Social Work as a certified international employee assistance professional.