I didn’t set out to work with money. But money work has always found me. I started in the art therapy mental health field, helping people in the middle of very human things — anxiety, depression, burnout, relationship problems, major transitions, injuries, neurodiversity and so much more. And over time, I kept noticing that money was almost always present in the therapy room. I wanted to bring it in, but my training notably left out the money angle.

The connection between money and mental health became harder to ignore: the stress, the shame, the sense of “I should have this figured out by now.” It was showing up everywhere, and almost no one had a place to actually talk about it in a meaningful way.

At the same time, I was having my own experiences of feeling confused and unsupported around money, despite doing all the “right” things. Finding financial therapy felt like naming something I had already been circling for a long time — that money is not just practical, it’s relational, emotional, and deeply human. And realizing that I had the skills to help people get better with money from an emotions-first perspective, and guess what?