Matt Shin is a psychotherapist, professional wellness consultant, and a formerly practicing attorney. Matt owns and operates Sidebar Counseling LLC out of Wausau, Wisconsin where he focuses his practice on all matters relating to happiness, satisfaction, and performance in work and careers. Through Sidebar, he leverages his past experience practicing law for over ten years along with evidence-based approaches to fostering wellness and high-level functioning to provide counseling and consulting services to individuals in high pressure roles, teams, and broader organizations. In his previous life, Matt operated a solo intellectual property practice, was in-house counsel supporting the R&D function at Mars Wrigley Confectionery, and practiced patent prosecution and IP litigation at Foley & Lardner. He obtained his J.D. from Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law and a Master’s in Counseling from Northwestern University.
Matt will be joining the Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) for our first Lunch and Learn wellbeing series, with a focus on recognizing and mitigating burnout.
