My client is in an extremely dangerous and escalating DV situation and I'm the person she calls when she's in crisis.

I'm not sure what I'm looking for....moral support I guess and whatever advice anyone can think of. For context, I'm a family defense attorney and I've represented this client on and off for about three years (one continuous case, but there was a gap when I went on maternity leave). Dependency representation can be weirdly intimate. I know this woman, I know her kids and her family, I know about the pregnancy she terminated that she didn't tell another soul about, and now I know about the guy who's beating the shit out of her.

It's been going on since January but it's just ramping up more and more. She's withdrawn the NCO she got and no longer calls the police because even if he goes to jail he just gets out and hurts her more. Today she confessed that he's been choking her, yesterday he chucked her phone out the car window on the freeway because he found out she had a recording of it. She says he always finds her and because she sent him to jail he thinks he can do whatever he wants to her.

I've read the RPCs over and over to understand what my obligations are, and I think I am still bound by atty-client confidentiality. She seems to call me between assaults, when she's hiding or laying low, or for some other reason she thinks she's not in immediate danger (once she told me he was coming back but they were in public). And anyway, I kind of think she's calling me because I can't tell anyone. She tells me not to call the police and she knows whatever she tells me won't get back to CPS. If she ever called mid-assault I'd call 911 and deal with the fallout later, but I've staffed it with my supervisor and if it ever got to that point we'd have to withdraw and she'd have to get new counsel on the dependency, which I think would be absolutely crushing for her.

Ultimately, I'm not really sure why she is calling. She refuses any offer of specific help and when I ask what I can do for her she says nothing. She always just says my number is the only one she always remembers, but today it was clear it took her a few attempts to get it right and when she realized she had finally gotten me she literally cried with relief, but still wouldn't let me do anything for her. I don't think she's reaching out to anyone else - even her siblings haven't heard from her, just me.

I'm just so far out of my depth here. I am her attorney. I have no training for this and even if I did, my hands are tied and there's nothing I can do, he's going to fucking kill her and I think she knows it. This is sitting so heavy on my soul it feels like I can't breathe.