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What does it mean to be in a healthy relationship with your money?

Over the years I have gotten more comfortable and have helped others to get more comfortable talking about really challenging experiences, taboo topics, and the things you’re afraid to say aloud. Despite that…I noticed that people were not talking to me about their money, even though money and our relationship to it is a universal experience. Once I noticed this and began to better understand the weight of financial worry, the constant negotiation of how to manage money, and how rarely we are taught to manage our money, it led me to training through the Financial Therapy Association. With this and other education, I have now been inviting these discussions into sessions with folks, asking clients to consider their origin stories with money, their thoughts and feelings about their relationship to money, their goals with their money, and creating plans to meet those goals.

As is typical with most things in life there is not just “one way” to go about this. My style as a therapist is to encourage people to learn about different ways of doing something and then use their own intuition to choose what makes most sense for them. Some align with what Tiffany Aliche says, and yet others do best with Tori Dunlap’s philosophy. Then there are folks that were first taught in the Ramsey ideology and want to stick with that. Even if I have a personal belief system that works for me I will support what works best for you as long as it is financially sound.

If you’re interested in “doing work” together to improve/tighten up your relationship with your money, head over to the “contact” page and set up a consultation!