What is Couples Financial Therapy

About Couples Financial Therapy

“The art of creating financial harmony between each other.”

Why do couples fight about money?

Nearly half of Americans (48%) who are married or living with a partner fight about money. Financial disagreements and stress between partners are tearing couples and families apart everywhere. People don’t realize we each have our very own unique money personality. Our money personalities started to develop since childhood: whether we grew up rich or poor, whether we had financial stability, what our parents taught us about money, or whether our friends made fun of us for not having the right sneakers, these are just few of the many factors that influences our unique money personality as adults today.

When we get together with a partner, we each bring our unique money personality to the relationship. One person loves to spend, while the other is frugal. One partner is motivated to make money, while the other is not. When these opposing money personalities get together without understanding and open communication, it is inevitable money fights will ensue.

But the difficulty is we ourselves don’t know why we behave the way we do with money. We are not aware that our upbringing and a lifetime of experiences are influencing our money personalities. We often don’t understand ourselves, and certainly not our partners.

Discovery Your Money Personality

Financial Therapy Process

Step 1: Financial Therapy is the process of uncovering you and your partner’s money beliefs and personality. You will witness the root cause of each other’s financial behaviors and habits (healthy or unhealthy).

Step 2: Once you have this mutual understanding, we will help you both establish a new and healthy relationship with money. You will establish financial harmony between each other, working jointly towards common priorities and life goals.

It is a privilege to understand one another and support each other on your joint financial success.