Where Financial Expertise Meets Clinical Depth
Debra Kaplan is a CSAT Supervisor (CSAT-S) and a financial therapist with a career background on Wall Street. Debra’s unique expertise extends beyond the psychology of money to include the culture of secrecy, addiction, and intensity-seeking involved in financial and sexual betrayal.
Financial therapy addresses the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral roots of self-defeating money beliefs and behaviors (for example, financial infidelity or gambling addiction). When money is used to control, deceive, or exploit in a relationship, the injury is severe. Debra works with individuals and couples to uncover the childhood wounds and money scripts that drive financial disorders and to rebuild trust and financial health from the ground up.
The Roots of Financial and Sexual Disorder Can Run Deep
Traumatic childhood experiences can set in motion unhealthy attachments to sex, love, money and work. Adult life consequences result in an over and/or under-valuing of these and other compensations for a low self-worth. As a result of these unhealthy beliefs there is a strong potential for addictions, depression, anxiety, unresolved trauma, and attachment disorders in adult life related to:
- Sex and money
- Financial exploitation of significant other (Monetized Rage)
- Perpetual search for more ______ (Wealth, Sex, Power, Control…)
- Healthy relational communication about intimacy, sex and money
- Financial control and manipulation in sexual and intimate relationships
- Financial infidelity involving sex, money and work
- Gambling addiction
- Unresolved childhood trauma
- Family patterns regarding money and work
- Healthy coping skills
Getting Help
Debra conducts personalized financial intensives and couples financial workshops to help individuals and couples heal their struggle with money and work. Just as sex can be used to self medicate stress, shame and pain; so, too, can money and work.
Debra will help you resolve the underlying life stressors and emotional wounds that have been “numbed” with obsessive, adrenaline-rush-inducing thoughts and behaviors—be it the high of closing a high-stakes deal, the excitement of a new sexual conquest, the power of controlling a spouse or partner via money or sex, or some combination thereof.
