Therapy for Financial Wellness in
New York and California
Connect with a deeper sense of worthiness, enough ness, and financial security
You work hard to earn your money and the numbers on your paycheck or bank statements reflect that, yet you still feel like you’re failing or falling behind.
The way you relate to money is usually less about the numbers themselves and more about the underlying emotions that are elicited by and projected on to money.
You’re a smart, successful person, so why do you feel like you’re always one emergency or bad decision away from financial ruin?
There’s an emotional disconnect happening. And no matter how much you make, have in the bank, or work on your relationship to money you still feel insecure about your finances.
You want your inner experience and sense of security with money to match the outer experience, or at least match the goals and dreams you have for your financial life and beyond.
Issues in your relationship with money can look like:
Constantly comparing yourself to others, feeling like there’s never enough and you’re falling behind no matter how much you have or make.
Living paycheck to paycheck despite earning a good salary, you struggle to get ahead.
Avoiding looking at your finances or accruing large amounts of debt.
Anxiety and stress around saving for the future and fears of making “the wrong decision” when it comes to finances.
Overspending or compulsive shopping in an effort to feel or look a certain way, yet never really feeling “good enough” or satisfied.
Beliefs that your status, value, or worthiness are dictated by how much you have; if you were to lose it all tomorrow you’d be a failure.
Therapy for financial wellness can help you:
Identify and examine your beliefs about money, financial security, and financial scripts. Explore how your earliest memories and experiences with money are influencing your current behaviors. Learn to identify the emotional component of your relationship to money, financial decisions, and your sense of enoughness and worthiness.
By focusing on the inner work of your relationship to money and wealth, you can alter your outer experience, overall financial picture, and financial future. My approach combines both cognitive behavioral therapy, where we look at your automatic thoughts and beliefs underlying your financial behaviors, with more insight oriented and emotion focused principles working on establishing better emotional self-regulation and security.
Things we can work on include:
Identify your financial goals and driving values, making sure they’re in alignment and working together in practice.
Setting healthy boundaries around money and building financial self-care practices.
Identify your financial beliefs, flashpoint memories, and behavioral patterns.
Explore and process any financial trauma history or the relationship between general trauma and financial insecurity.
Improve your internal sense of worthiness, value, and enoughness.
Improve decision making around finances and spending.