Money-related stress dates as far back as concepts of money itself. Formerly it may have waxed and waned in tune with the economy, but today more individuals are experiencing financial mental anguish and self-destructive behavior regardless of bull or bear markets, recessions or boom periods. From a fringe area of psychology, financial therapy has emerged to meet increasingly salient concerns. Financial Therapy is the first full-length guide to the field, bridging theory, practical methods, and a growing cross-disciplinary evidence base to create a framework for improving this crucial aspect of clients' lives. Its contributors identify money-based disorders such as compulsive buying, financial hoarding, and workaholism, and analyze typical early experiences and the resulting mental constructs ("money scripts") that drive toxic relationships with money. Clearly relating financial stability to larger therapeutic goals, therapists from varied perspectives offer practical tools for assessment and intervention, advise on cultural and ethical considerations, and provide instructive case studies. A diverse palette of research-based and practice-based models meets monetary mental health issues with well-known treatment approaches, among them: Cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused therapies. Collaborative relationship models. Experiential approaches. Psychodynamic financial therapy. Feminist and humanistic approaches. Stages of change and motivational interviewing in financial therapy. A text that serves to introduce and define the field as well as plan for its future, Financial Therapy is an important investment for professionals in psychotherapy and counseling, family therapy, financial planning, and social policy.

MEET YOUR FINANCIAL THERAPIST: Improve your financial literary and heal your relationship with money using this 3-part framework combining mindfulness, radical self-love, and body awareness. “An exciting, important voice to the money conversation . . . at once spiritual and practical, this is the education we've been waiting for.” —Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money For many of us, the most challenging and upsetting relationship in our lives is with our finances—and it often brings feelings of shame or powerlessness. Enter Bari Tessler, your new financial therapist and money-savvy best friend. Her “Art of Money” program gives you the tools you need to improve your financial literary and heal your money anxiety in 3 phases: • Money Healing: Heal money shame through body-based check-ins, transformative money rituals, and by reframing your “money story”. • Money Practices: Learn to approach money as a self-care practice—with advice on values-based bookkeeping, finding financial support, and setting up helpful tracking systems. • Money Maps: Designed to evolve with you over time, the 3-Tier Money Map helps you make good money decisions and affirm your money legacy. Bari Tessler’s gentle techniques weave together mindfulness, emotional depth, big-picture visioning, and refreshingly accessible money practices. A feminine and empowering guide, The Art of Money will help you transform your relationship with money—and in doing so, transform your life. Check out The Art of Money Workbook for more insights and teachings.

We learn countless ideas from our families about money. Many of them are caught and not taught. The Healthy Love & Money Way shows how our attitudes about ourselves, relationships, and money evolve from our past experiences and the attachment styles we developed as children. If you are having money fights with your significant other today, those arguments may be connected to unresolved issues from the past or methods of survival that are no longer relevant to present life. Using the latest in love and brain science, as well as anecdotes from his own evolution from an insecure attachment style to a secure one, Ed Coambs shows how healthy love and money can be achieved no matter your starting point.

Discover how to overcome money stress, make smarter money moves, and find financial freedom with this life-changing interactive guide! Most adults today experience some degree of anxiety. In the United States alone, 51% of adults report feeling anxious. And what is one of the top causes of this chronic anxiety? Money. Financial anxiety is ranked #2 in terms of what is stressing Americans out. And the more anxious a person is about money, the less likely they are to take action toward improving their financial health. Hitting a little close to home? Now that your heart rate is up, here’s the good news—anxiety is treatable and financial literacy is easier than you think. The Financial Anxiety Solution will show you how to conquer money-related stress and take control of your financial life. Inside, you’ll find: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques for developing anxiety coping skills Interactive quizzes to help identify “pain points” of stress Journal prompts to help work through money-related thoughts and feelings Mindfulness exercises to help calm a worried mind Popular money-management techniques that can help turn the page on financial anxiety The Financial Anxiety Solution takes you step by step through helpful exercises and strategies to understand the sources of anxiety, apply coping skills to address anxiety symptoms, and prepare to tackle your financial worries.

"This text is a valuable new resource that we recommend for all of our professionals and are proud to incorporate as part of our AFC® certification program. With expertise representing the breadth and depth of the financial counseling profession, the content in this text provides you with a rigorous foundation of knowledge, considers critical theoretical models, and explores foundational skills of communication, self-awareness, and bias. This type of comprehensive approach aligns with our mission and vision—providing you with the foundational knowledge to meet clients where they are across the financial life-cycle and impact long-term financial capability." -Rebecca Wiggins, Executive Director, AFCPE® (Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education®) This timely volume presents a comprehensive overview of financial counseling skills in accessible, practical detail for readers throughout the career span. Expert financial counselors, educators, and researchers refer to classic and current theories for up-to-date instruction on building long-term client competence, working with clients of diverse backgrounds, addressing problem financial behavior, and approaching sensitive topics. From these core components, readers have a choice of integrated frameworks for guiding clients in critical areas of financial decision-making. This essential work: · Offers an introduction to financial counseling as a practice and profession · Discusses the challenges of working in financial counseling · Explores the elements of the client/counselor relationship · Compares delivery systems and practice models · Features effective tools and resources used in financial counseling · Encourages counselor ethics, preparedness, and self-awareness A standout in professional development references, Financial Counseling equips students and new professionals to better understand this demanding field, and offers seasoned veterans a robust refresher course in current best practices.

The personal, household, and consumer finance field is growing quite rapidly, especially as universities and policy makers see the need for additional research and clinical application in this dynamic area of study. Currently, the profession is advancing towards the stage where professional practice becomes increasingly evidenced-based. Financial Planning and Counseling Scales provides educators, researchers, students, and practitioners with a much needed review of reliable and valid personal assessment scales and instruments that can be used for both research and clinical practice. In addition to presenting actual scales and instruments with applicable psychometric details, the book also includes an overview of measurement issues and psychometric evaluation.

Do you overspend? Undersave? Keep secrets about money from a spouse or family member? Are you anxious about dealing with your finances? If so, you are not alone. Let's face it–just about all of have complicated, if not downright dysfunctional, relationships with money. As Drs. Brad and Ted Klontz, a father and son team of pioneers in the emerging field of financial psychology explain, our disordered relationships with money aren’t our fault. They don’t stem from a lack of knowledge or a failure of will. Instead, they are a product of subconscious beliefs and thought patterns, rooted in our childhoods, that are so deeply ingrained in us, they shape the way we deal with money our entire adult lives. But we are not powerless. By looking deep into ourselves and our pasts, we can learn to recognize these negative and self-defeating patterns of thinking, and replace them with better, healthier ones. Drawing on their decades of experience helping patients resolve their troubling issues with money, the Klontzes and describe the twelve most common “money disorders” - like financial infidelity, money avoidance, compulsive shopping, financial enabling, and more — and explain how we can learn to identify them, understand their root causes, and ultimately overcome them. So whether you want to learn how to make better financial decision, have more open communication with your spouse or kids about the family finances, or simply be better equipped to deal with the challenges of these tough economic times, this book will help you repair your dysfunctional relationship with money and live a healthier financial life.

This new guide presents a new model for helping clients achieve balanced and healthy financial lives- called integrated financial planning. It combines the interior, emotional aspects of finance with exterior financial knowledge and provides the advisor with an expanded set of tools for working with clients to create and maintain financial health. Facilitating Financial Health integrates the fields of psychotherapy, coaching, and financial planning, equipping financial professionals with techniques to enhance their effectiveness by working with both the exterior and interior aspects of a client s financial health. Integrated financial planning encourages you to think beyond the traditional boundaries of your practice and to serve clients far more effectively. Includes a "Decision Tree" with guidelines for deciding when it is appropriate for planners to work with client's interior issues themselves and when it is appropriate to refer clients to or partner with coaches or therapists. Praise for Facilitating Financial Health "This is an essential handbook written by some of the most experienced and eloquent experts in the new field of Integrated Financial Planning. Reading Facilitating Financial Health is like taking a multi-day workshop with master facilitators. Each chapter contains fresh insights into client challenges and practical how-to s for facilitating positive change." Susan Bradley, CFP Founder of the Sudden Money Institute "Facilitating Financial Health provides the knowledge, tools, and guidelines needed to be a catalyst of positive change. I highly recommend this book." Carol Anderson, M.S. Founder and President, Money Quotient "Facilitating Financial Health is a book to help the helpers financial professionals, debt counselors, life coaches and psychotherapists to help their clients." Richard Trachtman, Ph.D. Director, MORE Services for MOney & RElationships "If you want to help clients overcome destructive financial habits and dysfunctional belief systems, then this book will be an invaluable resource. A must read for all change agents!" David B. Yeske, CFP Past President, Financial Planning Association "This is a must read for any professional helping a client on a life or money issue, as these issues are so intertwined." Hugh Massie Author of Financial DNA: Discover Your Unique Financial Personality for a Quality Life "No financial planner, money coach, debt counselor, or money therapist should be without this valuable resource." April Lane Benson, Ph.D. Founder, Stopping Overshopping, LLC "Klontz, Kahler, and Klontz, regarded as pioneers in the field of money matters, offer us long overdue insights into helping our clients understand and change their self-destructive money behaviors. Courtney Pullen, M.A., LPC CEO, Pullen Consulting "An exciting exploration of the interface between two dynamic fields finance and psychology." Pat DeLeon, Ph.D., J.D. Former President, American Psychological Association

Finally ... Financial Therapy for your bank balance! There is a ‘collective secret’ that says, we should all have a good handle on money as we grow into adulthood. Yet we are generally never taught about managing money let alone how our individual psychology may affect our relationship with it. Money is one of the most profound relationships in our lives. Of which most of us we have not received true guidance, support and any profound understanding of how money can and will trigger our emotional landscape. The Billionaire Buddha repairs this often broken relationship and builds a sense of inner security beyond what is happening to us financially. From here we grow in trust in ourselves, to provide all that we need in our lives. The Billionaire Buddha is a step by step guide to understanding our unique relationship with money. It uncovers the hidden drives, beliefs and behaviours that make us stress about money • under manage our money • compulsively spend • makes us envious of other’s wealth • overwork or underearn • have crazy debt • stress about our mortgage • can't save or budget • gamble heavily • makes us afraid to take some financial risk • make bad investments • fixate on money and manifesting • believe our self-worth is affecting our net-worth • argue with our partner about money • fear for our retirement • believe our level of money is a definition of our value as a human being • make us feel like we are constantly striving but only surviving • beat ourselves up for not being richer and, and, and the rest! In this therapeutic book we unpack at our early upbringings (our Attachment Relationships) with money and how this has laid the foundation of how we relate to our finances. Through the Billionaire Buddha 28 Day Challenge, we analysis our specific relationship with money, deconstruct our beliefs and behaviours and ultimately build a healthy foundation, that serves both the self and our bank balance. Most ‘money books’ are Financial Education tools - providing knowledge, skills, aptitude and educational resources to take more control over our economic lives. The Billionaire Buddha is about Economic Empowerment. Improving the attitudes, behaviours, beliefs, triggers, recovery from financial trauma, resilience and psychological well being in order to take more control over our economic lives. When one feels Economically Empowered… they feel they have the capability and capacity to improve their financial well being • are better able to have control over their day-to-day, month to-month finances • they are less vulnerable to economic abuse • have more psychological capacity to absorb financial shock • they have the psychological resilience to recover from financial trauma • their belief in their ability to achieve financial self-efficacy increases • are able to model and teach their children about Economic Empowerment • are better able to focus and stay on track to meet financial goals. Plus, most ‘money book’ educational strategies work if you have the same temperament, personality, disposition risk profile or circumstances as the author. This book is designed so that you, the reader discovers what your unique money psychology is … and then get that working for you, financially. The Billionaire Buddha covers the big subjects… Money & Pain - Money & Shame - Money & Power - Money & The Saboteur Jane Monica-Jones is a Psychotherapist, Financial Therapist and Financial Counsellor. She believes money is one of the most profound relationships in our lives. For most of us, we have received little or no true guidance, support and any profound understanding of how money can and will trigger our psychological and emotional landscape. Through Jane’s work she seeks to repair this often broken relationship and builds a sense of inner security beyond what is happening to us financially. From here we develop trust in ourselves to provide all that we need in our lives — to go beyond surviving to thriving.

Uncover Twelve Mindset Shifts That Will Transform Your Financial Future As a therapist, Joyce Marter noticed an extraordinary trend: as her clients improved their mental health, they leveled up in other areas of their lives. They received raises, they got promotions, and some even started their own business. This epiphany led her to develop an insightful and ingenious process for releasing limiting habits and beliefs so you can begin your journey to freedom and prosperity. Here, Joyce shares the culmination of her life’s work as the go-to expert on the “Psychology of Success”—a proven method to help you improve your financial well-being by focusing on your psychological and relational issues around money. By working with The Financial Mindset Fix, you will learn how to: • Recover from burnout, overwhelm, financial stress, and money anxiety • Improve your mental health by practicing better self-care and accessing the support you need and deserve • Change the way you think, feel, and behave with money to end self-limitation and self-sabotage and welcome far greater success • Embrace your worth and set healthy boundaries in your financial relationships with others at home and at work • Create a personal and professional vision for holistic success that includes work-life balance and tending to your dreams • Use simple tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and narrative therapy to change your life personally, professionally, and financially For anyone looking to step into a life of wealth and well-being, this is a welcome guide. “In this wonderful new book, successful therapist Joyce Marter gently takes you by the hand and walks you down the path toward better mental health and abundant financial life. Her twelve unique mindsets will revolutionize your relationship with money and significantly improve the way you view yourself.” ―Stephen M. R. Covey, author of New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller The Speed of Trust