Since covid, and even before, many clients struggle with the bottom tier of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs “security”; which encompasses food, shelter, and the like. All of these resources are tied to money. Working with clients to create tools and coping skills surrounding money can help facilitate growth as well as the ability to get out of a “stuck “place and begin to look at the other multifaceted areas of life. If budgeting and becoming financially stable where a simple as filling out a budgeting worksheet; and all of us would doit. The reality is, working with finances is a complex series of emotion and past personal narratives. This curriculum looks at ways to work with clients to untangle the emotions and past narratives that we have related to our finances. We acknowledge the triggers and come up with individualized coping skills to form a healthy connection to your finances so that skills can be maintained throughout a lifetime. Creating individual healthy relations with finances has direct implications on the greater community as a whole, as well as income, property, jobs, and spending.
Learn how to work with clients to acknowledge and untangle unhealthy relationships to money due to personal financial narratives. Review trigger sand how those are affecting current coping styles. Discuss interventions to use with clients to build a healthier relationship to financial resources.
Presenter: Elise Johns, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, CCTP
For more information about this workshop: Erin Brooks, Brightside Therapy Collective 504.249.8297 e.brooks@thetherapycollective.org
Approved for 3.0 CE clock hours; no NBCC credit available for this workshop.
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