Financial Therapy
Where Financial Expertise Meets Clinical Depth
Most financial therapists have never worked in finance. Most sex addiction therapists have never worked as financial therapists. Debra Kaplan is both a CSAT Supervisor (CSAT-S) and a credentialed financial therapist with a career background on Wall Street, where the forces of sex, money, and power play out daily in boardrooms and bedrooms alike. This rare combination means Debra understands not just the psychology of money, but the culture of secrecy, power, and risk that so often drives financial and sexual betrayal in relationships.
Financial therapy addresses the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral roots of self-defeating money beliefs and behaviors. When money is used to control, deceive, or exploit in a relationship, the damage runs as deep as any form of betrayal. Debra works with individuals and couples to uncover the childhood wounds and money scripts that drive financial disorder, and to rebuild trust, intimacy, 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
- 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.
Contact Debra today to schedule your personalized intensive.
