Financial Therapy for Therapists
Why Financial Therapy?
Have you ever wondered how your relationship with money impacts your success as a therapist and small business owner?
Perhaps you:
Avoid looking at your bank accounts for fear of mounting expenses or debt
Find yourself overwhelmed, angry, or avoidant when the conversation of money comes up in your life
Struggle to pay yourself or exist in Noble Poverty as an underearner
Experience all-or-nothing thinking about financial stability, security, or wealth
Struggle to ask for a raise or promotion as an employee, or don’t know how to raise your rates in private practice
Find yourself anxious or unsure about taking that next step in launching your private practice
Want to make more money and see less clients, but don’t know how
What is Financial Therapy?
Financial Therapy was coined in 2009 to capture the emotional and behavioral impact of our relationship with money within various areas of our lives.
To engage in financial therapy means to heal your relationship with money. To remove the mental or emotional blocks. To find yourself neutral instead of in shame. This allows you to unlock your full potential and make positive changes in your business, work-life balance, relationships, and finances!
By working with a financial therapist, you tap into money healing and awareness that can help you achieve your goals and improve your well-being.
Financial therapy falls under coaching or consultation models, which allows Financial Therapists to serve people in states other than their own. Financial therapy skills can also be introduced into mental health therapy if they are in alignment with client treatment goals. Let’s explore what you are needing in your own money work and the appropriate framework for fit!
Explore Conversations on Financial Therapy!
Khara is thrilled to share all things financial therapy with other professionals in the videos and podcasts below!
Financial Therapy Podcast Spotlights
Check out these podcast episodes where Khara shares more insight and information on financial therapy!
Why Do I Specialize in Working with Therapists in Financial Therapy?
Being our own boss in private practice has its benefits. It can be rewarding and inspiring to do what we do! Yet it goes without saying that starting a business or running a business is a stressful endeavor. We find ourselves working constantly and worrying about how our business is doing. Is it surviving? Thriving? Am I happy? Where do I go next with my business? Am I burning out?
Specializing in mental health therapists and financial therapists means I get to work with folks who are going through a journey similar to my own. Having done my own work in Financial Therapy and seen how life-changing it can be, I’ve pursued my Certified Financial Therapist-Level I credential in order to help other therapists make a powerful shift in their money story, and in their business. With most small businesses failing in the first five years, I am determined to help other passionate, entrepreneurial therapists succeed by developing a better relationship with their money!
I want to work with you if you identify as:
An entrepreneurial therapist
A therapist new to private practice
A therapist considering a launch into private practice
A therapist small business owner
A therapist business owner looking to expand into group practice
An established group practice owner wanting to streamline their finances
A therapist seeking secondary income streams
A financial-therapist-in-training
A financial therapist wanting to do their own work
A financial therapist seeking the next level of awareness in their own money story
A therapist interested in learning more about financial therapy and how it can be integrated into their mental health practice.
A therapist curious about financial therapy in having just discovered that it exists!
Financial Therapy and Ah-Ha Moments!
Are you ready to embrace a better relationship with your money? Start by getting curious about your money story by taking this two simple quizzes to explore your negative and healthy money scripts.
A five question quiz to get curious about your negative money scripts. Not meant to be a diagnostic tool, this quiz is for educational purposes only.
A five question quiz to get curious about your healthy money scripts. Not meant to be a diagnostic tool, this quiz is for educational purposes only.
A five question quiz to get curious about your healthy money scripts. Not meant to be a diagnostic tool, this quiz is for educational purposes only.
Join our Momentum and Money Group for Therapists!
Want to do your own money work as a mental health professional or financial therapist alongside your peers? Join us for a 6-week online group to lean in and grow towards a healthier relationship with your money! Groups are scheduled several times per year.
Financial Therapy Trainings and Presentations
Do you have an audience that would benefit from a training or presentation on money and money healing? We currently offer the following money topics to community members and can customize a training to fit your needs!
Momentum and Money in Private Practice (for mental health professionals)
Healing Shame, Self-Sabotage, and Perfectionism in Your Money Work
Working with Couples and Money (co-created on-demand course available)
Treating Financial Trauma (co-created on-demand course available)
Engaging Familes and Money (co-created on-demand course available)
Starting your Financial Therapy Business (co-created on-demand course available)
Financial Therapy Master Series: Exploring CBT, EFT, IFS, Narrative, and Solution-Focused Financial Therapy in practice! (co-created on-demand course available)
Grab all 5 Financial Therapy on-demand courses in this bundle and save!
“Khara presented Momentum and Money to our group of counselors and we all found it incredibly helpful to reflecting on our own journey with finances and money and how we might be able to show up better for our clients around their finances and money. As a group practice owner, I want to make sure I provide my team with learning they find value in and this is one of those. ”
Your Enneagram and Money—Book Launching in Early 2025!
Do you nerd out over the Enneagram? We do! Joined by co-author Hannah DeGroot, our book on the Enneagram and money is launching in early 2025! Follow us on socials to stay updated on our progress, and check out our press release from our publisher, as well as a sneak peek of our thoughts on the Enneagram and money in the Truity article below!
The Journal of Financial Therapy
We are proud to be a published author in the Journal of Financial Therapy! Check out our article, The Empowerment Model of Supervision and Its Application to Standardization of Financial Therapy Supervision.
Are you a Financial Therapist-in-Training?
Khara is a huge supporter of doing your own work as a financial therapist! After all, we are human too and our own money stuff can show up in our client work. Get ready to explore your own money story, strengths, and edges to best serve your clients. Learn more about Khara and book a discovery call to see if she is a fit for you!
Financial Therapy Individual and Group Supervision with khara
Financial Therapy is a newer discipline that focuses on professionals who are committed to supporting clients to heal their past money story and engage in a healthier relationship with their money, both in the present and the future. As a clinical supervisor for the past 9 years, Khara offers her experience in mental health supervision with tools and trainings that encourage both supervisee and supervisor growth!
Khara to is excited to provide quality, empowered supervision and professional consultation to Financial Therapists and Financial-Therapists-in-Training. Contact her to learn more or fill out the group supervision interest form below!
Financial Therapy at Your Fingertips: A Workbook!
Created for anyone wanting to work on their money relationship, this workbook has six of my favorite exercises that support ahas and action!
Work with Khara as a Certified Financial Therapist™ professional
I am proud to be a Certified Financial Therapist™! As a mental health therapist and serial entrepreneur, offering Financial Therapy has allowed me to bridge my two worlds of serving fellow mental health professionals and Financial Therapists!
Through my work as a therapist over the past 14 years, I bring my skillset and empathy to sessions for deeper processing and money healing. My entrepreneurial mind and compassion supports connection to fellow small business owners and entrepreneurial therapists who are struggling with work-life balance, burnout, and scarcity in their business. Why? Because I’ve been there!
Join me on this life-changing journey! I want to share more about Financial Therapy and what you expect when working with me in a free 20 minute discovery call. I look forward to connecting with you when you schedule your free call below!
*Free Discovery Calls are currently limited but continue to check back for updated availability.
Wanting Financial Therapy But You Aren’t a Therapist?
Since I specialize in working with therapists, it’s important to me to provide some options for other amazing Financial Therapy colleagues who might be a fit for you if you aren’t a mental health or Financial Therapy professional!
Couples Financial Therapy: Financial Therapy Clinical Institute
Financial Therapy for individuals, retirement counseling, and life transitions: John Hankins, CFT
Financial Therapy for Women Who Struggle with Spending: The Money Healing Club
Financial Therapy for Professional Women and Moms: Jillian Knight, CFT
Financial Trauma Counseling: Copper Well Counseling in Colorado
Financial Therapy for Individuals and Couples: Wendy Wright
Financial Therapy for Small Business Owners and Startups: Aja Evans, CFT
Still aren’t sure you’ve located the Financial Therapist you’ve been looking for? Check out all the Financial Therapy professionals found on Financial Therapy Association’s Professional Directory!